@ North Dakota State Saturday, Dec 29

[kiyoat]

The Men and women are doing a Friday-Sunday double-header.  I wonder if that helps with travel cost if they both go up friday and come back sunday?

Massey has us with a 39% chance of winning in Fargo.  Typical score: 66-69

Bison's best win: 
#161 UC Santa Barbara 82-63

Worst loss:
#331 Incarnate Word 78-80 OT

[kiyoat]

What the Bison do well:

Charity Stripe and Volume Arc Shooting
78.3% FT shooting (#6)
350 3-Pt attempts (#28)
113 3-Pt made ----(#59)

Playing clean/passive
15.6 Personal fouls/gm(#28)
12.0 Turnovers/gm ---(#57)

What the Bison don't do well:

Rebounding:
7.6 Offensive RB-----(#336)
23.8 Defensive RB---(#299)
31.4 Total RB---------(#330)
-2.2 Rebound Margin (#276)

Playing Ugly/agressive:
2.3 Blocks/game (#294)
4.8 Steals/game (#325)
10.9 Forced TOs (#335)

Defending the post/midrange:
Allowing 47.0% FG (#313)

[kiyoat]

I'm guessing some of the low ______ per game type stats are related to the style of basketball they play. They probably limit overall possessions in the game somehow. They possibly use ball control and half-court offense and defense to slow the game down. If we can force some turnovers, own the glass and score at close range we could have a shot. Shooters have to knock down shots, though.

Maybe a press can get them to cough up the ball more.

[yoyotes]

The team didn't travel yesterday due to the road conditions. Expected to leave today with discussions about when game will be played.

[kiyoat]

[gasser86]

For the first time, in a long time, NDSU doesn't have a dominant guard. Coming into the year I would have thought Tyson Ward would fill the void for Paul Miller, but for whatever reason, he has been relegated to a bench role. Their best player is the versatile spark plug Deng Geu, who also comes off the bench. Their second best player is another athletic big man Rocky Kreuser, who is looking like one of the most improved players in The Summit. If we can limit their 3's and contain these two while making some buckets down the stretch, I think we stand a chance.

[gasser86]

I don't think we'll get to see Griesel play. It looks like he started their first four games but hasn't seen any action since.

[coyotecrazie5]

Dec 28, 2018 11:47:39 GMT -6 gasser86 said:

I don't think we'll get to see Griesel play. It looks like he started their first four games but hasn't seen any action since.

I believe he is injured

[gasser86]

JVG says Power is out indefinitely with a foot injury and Johns didn’t make the trip due to a shoulder injury. At what point do you pull a redshirt?

[coyotecrazie5]

Bizun go up 3 after a big run with 8:12 left

[coyotecrazie5]

65-62 bizon, 1:05 left

down 68-65 with 26 seconds to go

only playing 8 with injuries to Power and Johns

[coyotecrazie5]

Armstrong throws it out of bounds, then intentionally fouls NDSU with :12 seconds left, game over

Armstong has potential to be a good player, just needs to be smarter

2nd half was atrocious again. need to figure that out if we want to be a top half team this year

[flagshipU]

This is going to be a frustrating year.

[vermcat]

This loss makes me very nervous for the rest of the season. Two things stood out to me on this one...

1. We shot 50% and still lost. Most of our losses are because we struggle shooting the ball. We can't use that excuse on this one.

2. We were up 12 or 13 at one point during the game. We almost seem like "here we go again" when we start letting things slip away in the 2nd half.


Still lots of times to turn things around. I think Triston, Burch-Manning, Stanley and you can even argue Peterson are all-league caliber players. The talent is there to win a lot of conference games this year.

GO YOTES!

[gopheryote]

Meh. Yotes have only won once in Fargo since we joined the SL, so the L isn't surprising given all the circumstances. Blowing another lead and barely scoring over the last 5-6 minutes is concerning again though.