@last_play_sdsu Most that voted on the National award never watched Koenen for a minute of game time.
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Dave Hiff
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Mid-Major POY but not the Summit League POY? I sense some bias from voters up north
Jackrabbit WBB@GoJacksWBB
The Becky Hammon Player of the Year 🌟 Brooklyn Meyer is the best mid-major player in the country! #GoJacks 🐰
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@last_play_sdsu I trust media members that actually watch games of the players they are voting on rather than just going off of stats and reputation like the national media.
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@last_play_sdsu Or she wasn’t actually the mid-major POTY and just got it because she is from SDSU, and national media don’t know about NDSU and Koenen?
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@natesportsguy I hear, I have no evidence, that former players at these schools that are in the NFL are very generous with their former schools. If that is the case NDSU may be able to. They also have some wealthy grads that support FB in particular.
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Can NDSU and eventually SDSU cover this number per year for Football NIL? Wyoming projects they need $5 Million per year to be in the mix. 😳
Alex Taylor@alex_m_taylor22
What will it cost the University of Wyoming to compete for championships? According to the school's athletic department, it's roughly: -$5M in football -$2M in men's basketball -$1M combined for the rest -$8M total, which is a number that's likely only going up "People want a product, and this is the cost for the product, plain and simple." wyomingnews.com/wyosports/univ…
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@IceBorg If the WBIT didn’t exist and th WNIT would be the top tourney after the NCAA, USD wouldn’t be in the WNIT this year. So kind of a moot point. USD would still be in the 3rd tier tourney with mostly mid majors. They would have been knocked of of the WBIT in first or 2nd round
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I do think it’s unfortunate NCAA started the WBIT opposite WNIT & basically funnels all major conference competition to it. Part of WNIT & 2016 USD title’s fun was seeing teams like Oregon in Vermillion for postseason
Yet pretty cool seeing USD & fans rally around each other
Nicole Bruning@NicoleSoukup
@IceBorg MSU was a great team. The lady Coyotes are making a great run!
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@NatLANKborne Get together an NIL package for a sport other than hockey. The fact is, most BB players at UND or NDSU are not playing in the NBA. Their highest earning years are 2’or 3 years at P4 colleges after developing for a year or two at a mid major. It won’t change under these rules.
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Real talk. Why is UND basketball turning into a “develop players so they can leave and make a bag” school. Like players will have a great year and there’s almost no urgency to keep these players. Happy for all that get that bag, but it’s like damn man..
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From rumblings I heard from UND folks in the know, this was always a 50/50. IMO, he should have stayed & continued to develop, he’s not ready for a step up if that’s the goal. High upside as a creator & defender but has a lot of work to do. Should look at Summit, Horizon, or NSIC
Tobias Bass@tobias_bass
NEWS: Anthony Smith lll (North Dakota) plans to enter the transfer portal, he tells @TheAthleticCBB The true freshman guard averaged 7.8 points, 2.1 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game while shooting 47 percent from the field He had 11 games in double figures this season
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@chippewadino @IceBorg It’s all about the seed and matchup. Any other 3 seed this year would have been a better matchup than Mich State.
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Last 4 years the Summit League regular season champion has won the tournament and represented the league in the Tournament. 3 of the 4 were dominant in their seasons.
All have been wiped out in the NCAA Tourney
Not sure it’s gonna get any easier for Summit either moving ahead
NDSU Men's Basketball@NDSUmbb
Proud of our Bison.
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@JjJjj27872 Heard the incoming recruits are so good they are skipping the F’N Hawks and going right to the NFL. Petitioning the NFL to change their rules these guys are so good. Afraid opponentsin college wil get injured playing these studs.
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Spoke to 4 different coaches. Sentiment was the incoming freshman would blow these nfl prospects out of the water. JYD
Eric Moon@ericmoon22
Pro Day for @UNDfootball 🏈 Nine North Dakota players showed off their skills for professional scouts from multiple NFL teams Wednesday, hoping to earn an opportunity at the next level. @MidcoSports
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@donnyferg69 Don’t have a clue who “this guy” is. The same as 99.9% of population.
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Just a reminder that this guy has more playoff wins than Cole Payton
NDSU Football@NDSUfootball
Illinois State wins, 29-28.
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@wdiamond605 @NDSUwbb Richmond got an at large. Saw them play the semis in their conference tournament. They lost and look like a bottom half Summit team at best.
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I don't know if it'll happen but @NDSUwbb deserves in the Dance.
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@IceBorg I get it Zach, you were in the back of the room smirking thinking “well, you went to NDSU so you deserve it”. But this NDSU women’s team deserves to go on to the NCAA tournament. The fact that some media and coaches think a couple of bucks of profit is more important is sickening
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@HiffDave So along with your math not being good I don’t know that you’re really a proponent of fairness. After all, if you really think the host venue is pocketing the majority of the profit, then putting it on one campus (this year NDSU) means homecourt AND all the profit
Not very fair
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Probably ain’t millions but you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that holding the tournament in a venue which can hold up to 12,000, and pulling in crowds of 8,000-11,000 is more lucrative than on-campus venues which hold a little over 5K Dave
Dave Hiff@HiffDave
@IceBorg Zach, do some reporting. Find out from the league office the amount of money distributed to each league school from the profits of the Summit tournament this year. Sounds like it must be in the millions. Would be really good to know the actual number.
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@IceBorg I watched Avery Koenen (and others) come back out of the locker room after pretty much every game to talk to and sign autographs for little girls that look up to them. Koenen is such a good person and to watch her crying at the press conference was not how it should end.
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@IceBorg I actually don’t care who gets the revenue or if there is any to give out. When you go to these games all year, which I did and you see these girls play so wel all year, then see them crying their eyes out after losing in the Summit champ you realize this should not be about 💰
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@natesportsguy @GoJacksWBB Of course. It’s not easier for Jacks fans, the majority that live in SF, to get up in their own bed, drive a couple of miles, go to a game and go home than it is for other fan bases to take 5 days off work, stay in a hotel and pay for meals. I’m sure glad AJ has declared it fair.
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I asked @GoJacksWBB Coach AJ his reaction to the Summit League "home court" advantage talk being thrown around. ⤵️ Full interview is great, listen here: soundcloud.com/foxsportsrapid…
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Speaking of ignorance Dave-history lesson
MidCon Tourney started on campus & people complained
Went to neutral sites in cities w/league member & people complained
Then went 60 miles equidistant of league members
Can’t please everyone
Summit presidents sure like profits tho
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Dave Hiff@HiffDave
@IceBorg Again, nobody is saying it’s impossible, but it is harder. Literally why every pro sports league gives a team that earns it home court advantage. Because it is harder to win on the road than at home. The fact that the homer 605 media won’t admit that shows their ignorance & bias.
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@Tanner_Castora @NDSUfootball You mean New Haven, Eastern Illinois, Drake, Butler? Oh wait, that’s the Jacks typical Non-Con. And no, NDSU will not miss the Jacks more than the reverse. Easy to tell by how you and other Jacks fans are butthurt for being left behind this time.
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Kent State just beat Ohio State in baseball yesterday
Thought you should know, Dave.
Silly Buckeyes, should of taken the @NDSUfootball approach and scheduled easy non-conference wins.
P.S. The Bison need the Jackrabbits more than they realize. Check with me in 3 years.
Dave Hiff@HiffDave
@Tanner_Castora Spoiler alert. Tanners next tweet (X) will be how Ohio State plays G6 teams but won’t schedule Kent State because OSU knows they will get their asses kicked.
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@HiffDave Nice try at rage bait Hiffey but you know if the regular season champ hosted this tourney it would have spent majority of the last 2 decades in Brookings 😂
Reality is SDSU gets an advantage b/c their fans SUPPORT them. Thanks for admitting you & most NDSU fans don’t support WBB
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Sorry to burst peoples bubble here but conference tournaments held on campus aren’t done out of “fairness”. They’re mostly done by smaller conferences to l make money they couldn’t at a neutral site. They’re really least “fair” of all since one fan base gets majority of tickets
Dave Hiff@HiffDave
@IceBorg So you are saying SDSU has an advantage every year with the Summit tournament in SF? Thank you for admitting that. Or maybe you are one of the ones without a 2 eyes and a functioning brain? Hard to tell some days.
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