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One year ago tomorrow, the North Dakota State Bison were on the court at the Summit League Tournament celebrating a birth to the NCAA Tournament, looking forward to finding out who they would be playing on selection Sunday. That like much of life over the last year was disrupted by Covid. So the Bison were…
10 years ago today, March 8th, 2011. Oral Roberts took on Oakland in the Summit League Tournament final. Oakland won the game 90-76, advancing to the NCAA tournament. This was also the last time that Oral Roberts was in the Summit League Championship game. It also marked the last time that a team not named…
Game Story For the fourth straight year, and the eighth time in the past nine seasons, the USD Women’s Basketball team is heading to the Summit League Championship game. The Coyote women won their 11th straight game against NDSU 81-55 and will play 8-seed Omaha tomorrow at 1pm. The game will be televised on ESPNU….
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Game Story For the first time in Summit League WBB history, the eight-seed will be playing for a conference championship. The game started quick with Omaha’s Elena Pilakouta scoring an easy bucket in the paint. She scored four of the first six points for Omaha. Western Illinois would answer by the way of Evan Zars…
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North Dakota State looked like they were going to cruise second half against Kansas City. Rocky Kreuser had just completed a special first half and the Bison lead ballooned to 16 at the break. The Bison increased that lead to as much as 22 after a Grant Nelson dunk with 14:15 remaining. Even those of…
In my humble opinion, the best posts that writers can make are the ones previewing the season, building the excitement for the season ahead. It is also easy to say that the worst ones are the ones when the season is over. Tonight, we write the worst one. UND took on Oral Roberts in the…
Many times on the podcast we have sounded like a broken record when it comes to Oral Roberts Men’s Basketball team. I suppose that’s not a good thing for a podcast but here we are. The broken part of the record was us saying “if they consistently defend”. Basically saying that the Golden Eagles won’t…
GAME NOTES The Bison from North Dakota State are moving on to the semifinals after a convincing 79-67 win over Denver this afternoon. The top three-point shooting team in the conference showed up today as the Bison finished the game 10-23 from the three-point line. NDSU moves on to play the 2-seed, South Dakota,…
Game Story Free throws, free throws, free throws. That was the difference today as the 5-seed, Western Illinois, defeated the 4-seed, Kansas City, 60-59. The Leathernecks move on to play 8-seeded Omaha tomorrow at 11:45am. The energy that both teams came to play with today was high, knowing that their chance to get to the…
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In their last game, South Dakota came out against North Dakota State and played inspired basketball for a half in their first game without AJ Plitzuweit. Then they fell behind and got buried by the Bison. This led a certain Reaching the Summit Writer to pick them to lose in the opening round to Western…