2026-2027 SEASON

[ND-fan]

The 2025- 2026 season ended Sunday time to start new thread for coming season. We’re in portal season and roster construction which will start a lot opinions in next few weeks. We are in longterm rebuild here with number of people that are very impatient thinking we can turn this around in year or two but I believe is not possible anymore. The small mid-major programs like we are in very difficult position especially when we have couple of dominant programs with established programs dominating the conference where there recruits are almost now guaranteed post season bid helpful. In recruiting and retaining players.  Women’s basketball is different than men’s basketball depth of players is not as deep or finding girls that have physical abilities and maturity to build dominant roster.  NDSU has taken seven years to compete to win the conference and even there they still didn’t make the dance and they are far ahead of us with there NIL money.  There are positive things happening now with UND in infrastructure starting to be addressed and we have several new recruits hopefully that will turn out and past year we had couple players that made improvements. Also improvements training and dietary being implemented. Hopefully we are at low point and we start rebuilding this program.

[UND92,96]

Based on the picture posted on the UND women's basketball twitter today, it appears no more players are going to be entering the portal aside from the three we know about. So there should be eight returnees, plus the four signees from the fall, with three to-be-determined additions.

[Hambone]

So we have:

• Hillesheim
• Harvey
• Klosterbuer
• Mathern
• Reardon
• Ava Miller
• Piekny
• Harris

Add in Fricke, Kinley Smith, Sonnenberg as incoming Freshmen.  And we have Abby Duchscherer transferring in as well, right?

[UND92,96]

2 minutes ago, Hambone said:

So we have:

• Hillesheim
• Harvey
• Klosterbuer
• Mathern
• Reardon
• Ava Miller
• Piekny
• Harris

Add in Fricke, Kinley Smith, Sonnenberg as incoming Freshmen.  And we have Abby Duchscherer transferring in as well, right?

Correct.

[Hambone]

Let's hope that we have some good development before the start of next year.  Need a few to step up as high level players.....

[ND-fan]

Reardon was walk on last year wonder if she been offered scholarship. If not that would leave 3 scholarships available and if she has gone on scholarship then we have two remaining.

[NewUndFan]

3 hours ago, Hambone said:

So we have:

• Hillesheim
• Harvey
• Klosterbuer
• Mathern
• Reardon
• Ava Miller
• Piekny
• Harris

Add in Fricke, Kinley Smith, Sonnenberg as incoming Freshmen.  And we have Abby Duchscherer transferring in as well, right?

This will be another disaster season if we go into next year with the majority of last years team.   

[NewUndFan]

Does anyone know who we signed?  I am guessing by Hutter's tweet someone signed.  

[undwbbdeservesbetter]

where is the coach at UND multi-year contract at, oh thats right the Administration doesn't think he deserves one, why would a recruit pick usd over und, because their Administration has a vote of confidence in their coach to extend a contract to 2031, und confidence is so low in their coach they wont even take the interim tag off and give him more than a year

[UND69er]

3 minutes ago, undwbbdeservesbetter said:

where is the coach at UND multi-year contract at, oh thats right the Administration doesn't think he deserves one, why would a recruit pick usd over und, because their Administration has a vote of confidence in their coach to extend a contract to 2031, und confidence is so low in their coach they wont even take the interim tag off and give him more than a year

You need to go away. If you think anything you post is of benefit you are dead wrong and it's very tiring.

[DL Sioux]

11 minutes ago, undwbbdeservesbetter said:

where is the coach at UND multi-year contract at, oh thats right the Administration doesn't think he deserves one, why would a recruit pick usd over und, because their Administration has a vote of confidence in their coach to extend a contract to 2031, und confidence is so low in their coach they wont even take the interim tag off and give him more than a year

Where have you once seen the word interim before head coach??

[The Sicatoka]

Not interim: https://fightinghawks.com/sports/womens-basketball/coaches 

Definitely not: 

University of North Dakota head women’s basketball coach Mallory Bernhard announced the addition of Dennis Hutter to the North Dakota coaching staff as the associate head coach on Mar. 29, 2024. Hutter was elevated to Head Coach on March 24, 2025. 

https://fightinghawks.com/staff-directory/dennis-hutter/749

[coachdags]

Just going to leave this here… 

Great job by Rico Burkett, I guess it can be taught and coached! 👏

[GoodGood]

5 minutes ago, coachdags said:

Just going to leave this here… 

Great job by Rico Burkett, I guess it can be taught and coached! 👏

Yet you downvote UND signing a player that had the 2nd best assist to turnover ratio in d2 basketball. Must not fit your narrative 

[coachdags]

1 hour ago, GoodGood said:

Yet you downvote UND signing a player that had the 2nd best assist to turnover ratio in d2 basketball. Must not fit your narrative 

362 D1 Schools play WBB. Approximately 1,300+ just went into the portal. 
 

With all due respect to the young lady from Western Oregon, that actually lead the Nation with assist to turnover ratio for D2. 
 

It is still D2, I would hope with our limited roster spots available, we would find someone that is a D1 player of proven promise at our supposed D1 level. 
 

We need better players than we have. 
 

Last year we settled for a D3 (NAIA) girl to be our best player, how did that work out for us? 

[GoodGood]

1 hour ago, coachdags said:

362 D1 Schools play WBB. Approximately 1,300+ just went into the portal. 
 

With all due respect to the young lady from Western Oregon, that actually lead the Nation with assist to turnover ratio for D2. 
 

It is still D2, I would hope with our limited roster spots available, we would find someone that is a D1 player of proven promise at our supposed D1 level. 
 

We need better players than we have. 
 

Last year we settled for a D3 (NAIA) girl to be our best player, how did that work out for us? 

Oh yea I forgot, you wanted them to play the d1 transfer that shot 10% from the field more. Silly me 

[coachdags]

1 hour ago, GoodGood said:

Oh yea I forgot, you wanted them to play the d1 transfer that shot 10% from the field more. Silly me 

Such a intelligent response, thanks

Do you guys even care about UND, and its Athletic programs? 
 

Honest question?

[Susie54]

Well spoken Coachdags.  Oh “Good” we now have a Div II guard that shot 33% field goal, 31% from the 3 point line, and 64% free throws and on a team that finished 9-9 in a poor Div II conference.  She should fit right in.  It is amazing how once great tradition has fallen.  As a long time women’s basketball fan and supporter we expect better.  

[NewUndFan]

13 hours ago, coachdags said:

Such a intelligent response, thanks

Do you guys even care about UND, and its Athletic programs? 
 

Honest question?

Sounded intelligent to me. That NAIA kid was the only person from the team that made the all league team.  Can't have been that bad of a pick up.   Truth is this whole roster needs to be dumped. All of Mals recruits gone ! 

[ND-fan]

No Berhard recruits are not all gone Piekney, Hillesheim, Harvey, Reardon, and Mathern we’re all recruited by Berhard and also commit of fricke coming in this year are go back to Berhard. Miller, Harris, and klosterbuer on team now are now Hutter recruits. His other recruits were Ohnstad ( transferred), miller and Hughes ( grad transfers) short term players fill in this past year.  We now will have several more recruits coming in this coming year we should see if he is getting few more players on his roster construction. I believe when he brought in Ohnstad he thought he was getting player to build on that never developed for what ever reason but that happens with recruits. The bottom line is this coming year we’re still going to be very young team again making it hard to know where we are at when we’re building with mostly young high school players.  

[SIOUXFAN97]

16 hours ago, coachdags said:

Such a intelligent response, thanks

Do you guys even care about UND, and its Athletic programs? 
 

Honest question?

if your on here posting...it means you care.

[Und Princess]

41 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

if your on here posting...it means you care.

I deeply care about UND and its teams! That is why I post on here and have a blog dedicated to UND Athletics! I will put a link in case there's people on here that don't know about From The Stands To The Spotlight! Spread the word about From The Stands To The Spotlight with your friends and family!

 https://ftstspotlight.blogspot.com/?m=1

Let's Go UND Athletics!!!!

Und Princess 

[NewUndFan]

3 hours ago, ND-fan said:

No Berhard recruits are not all gone Piekney, Hillesheim, Harvey, Reardon, and Mathern we’re all recruited by Berhard and also commit of fricke coming in this year are go back to Berhard. Miller, Harris, and klosterbuer on team now are now Hutter recruits. His other recruits were Ohnstad ( transferred), miller and Hughes ( grad transfers) short term players fill in this past year.  We now will have several more recruits coming in this coming year we should see if he is getting few more players on his roster construction. I believe when he brought in Ohnstad he thought he was getting player to build on that never developed for what ever reason but that happens with recruits. The bottom line is this coming year we’re still going to be very young team again making it hard to know where we are at when we’re building with mostly young high school players.  

I ment we need all of Mals players gone. I knew that most of the roster were here players.  If Hutter cant win with his own players then he needs to go too

[Long Snapper 92]

22 hours ago, GoodGood said:

Oh yea I forgot, you wanted them to play the d1 transfer that shot 10% from the field more. Silly me 

Coach Mac didn’t tell Hutter to recruit her so it’s deserved a downvote

[coachdags]

17 minutes ago, Long Snapper 92 said:

Coach Mac didn’t tell Hutter to recruit her so it’s deserved a downvote

There was a reason I quit reading and posting on this site for about the last 15-16 years, just remembered why! 

Thank you