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The Western Illinois men’s basketball team tips off the season Tuesday night at Nebraska.The Leathernecks went 2-0 in their exhibition games but take a major step up in competition, taking on the Big 10’s Cornhuskers at 7 p.m.And while the hill will be a tough one to climb, getting back on the court and starting…
Zack and Todd spend the majority of the episode previewing each Summit League teams non-conference schedule. They discuss games they are excited about, what teams might surprise and which games are the most important for Summit League teams during the non-conference. Maybe most impressively they avoid going on a long Anti-NCAA rant when discussing Oklahoma…
So in a year when there are freshmen and super freshmen, it’s important to clarify. In order to make the Reaching the Summit All-Freshmen team, it needs to be the player’s first year playing college basketball. In making this list it is a lot of presumed opportunity and reputation that comes into play as none…
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Yesterday the 1st team was posted, time for the 2nd team. First a reminder of the 1st team G KJ Hunt Denver G Issac McBride Oral Roberts G Trenton Massner Western Illinois F Courtney Brown St. Thomas F Akol Arop Omaha Reaching the Summit All-Newcomer 2nd team G Erik Oliver, South Dakota South Dakota…
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The transfer portal has become just as important in college basketball recruiting as coaches going to AAU tournaments. The Summit is no exception. Over the next 2 days, I am going to post the Reaching the Summit 1st and 2nd team All-Transfer teams and the next day the 1st team all Freshmen team. Frankly, there…
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Yesterday we posted the Summit All-Breakout 1st team so let’s refresh your memory of that team. G Bentiu Panoam, North Dakota G La’Mel Robinson, Omaha G Xavier Fuller, South Dakota F Grant Nelson, North Dakota State F Tasos Kamateros, South Dakota As a reminder in order to qualify the player needed to play in the…
Time to celebrate the Summit League players that are returning that are primed for a breakout in year 2. To make this list a player had to score in single digits last year and is prime for a big role this season. 1st Team All-Breakout G Bentiu Panoam, North Dakota In his second season…
The basketball season started in earnest in Grand Forks, as North Dakota unofficially started Year 3 of the Sather Project with an exhibition against Mayville State. As the title states above, it was a bit of a struggle. UND squeaked out a 4 point win against the Comets of Mayville State, an NAIA school 20…
I’ve been the conductor on the Rocky Kreuser, Summit League POY train all offseason and after finally seeing the 2021 NDSU Bison take the floor together last night, I’m thinking that train won’t be empty for long. Rocky led all scorers with 22 points in 22 minutes, also grabbed 9 rebounds and converted 4 of…
It still stings, I still have the image of Sam Griesel getting “blocked” (I still think he was fouled), on the last play of the Summit League Championship game burned into my memory. That play gave ORU their opportunity on the big stage and boy did they take advantage. While I cheered hard for our…