Christopher Strand

@HeadBallCoachWF It was hard to watch. I love UCLA was impressed with specifically Kiki Rice not loving her cool.

Letting them play is a politically correct way to say bad officiating. I’d prefer to just call it bad officiating.

@TheAggship Some side notes: Craig Smith and Ben Jacobson grew up 90 miles apart on ND/MN border. Craig's first job was at the NAIA school in Ben's hometown of Mayville, ND (1,800 ppl). Both graduated from UND. Pretty cool for an Aggies fan that grew up right in between their hometowns!

Alright, I had to finish my homework before turning it in, but the story is done and now I have thoughts on the hire. - Utah State really does not make these things easy to prep for. Or maybe we're all just really terrible at identifying potential candidates. Hard to say for sure. - The resume is very impressive. Almost 400 wins, four NCAA tournament victories, multiple massive upset victories, nine regular season or tournament titles, five coach of the year awards. He's the eighth Utah State head coach with previous experience in the role elsewhere since 1950. Jerrod Calhoun was 242-144 (118-106 at DI) when hired, Danny Sprinkle was 81-43, Ryan Odom was 126-81 (105-71 at DI) and Craig Smith was 151-84 (79-55 at DI). Before them, it's Stew Morrill (218-138), Larry Eustachy (61-33) and T.L. Plain (63-34, none at DI equivalent). Just counting DI wins, you'd have to combine the pre-Utah State records of Stew, Calhoun and Eustachy to match what Jacobson did at Northern Iowa. If he ends this era of short-term rentals, it will go down as a massive success for fundraising, program prestige among coaches, and of course, on-court success. - As for how he gets those wins, there's a lot to like. Averaging 20 wins a year over 20 years with consistently sub-300 adjusted tempo tells me that you're very good in close games and your teams value possessions highly, on both ends. The other numbers bear this out. Tons of top-100 turnover offenses and plenty of great shooting units, with enough flexibility to adjust to personnel on assist/three-point rate fronts. The offense has been a lot faster since 2020, too, save for this year. Defense is where he does his best work, and it's more of the same here. Effort stats, disciplined play, the good stuff. Very few coaches are better about the defensive glass. He's had 18 top-30 defensive rebounding units in 20 years. That's ridiculous. Almost every free throw rate defense has been top 100 at a minimum, too, and the majority are top 75 or top 50. His teams mostly ignore the offensive glass to focus on transition defense, they don't usually hunt for fouls, and they're not traditionally huge on forcing turnovers, though that has been changing in recent years. There's definitely a willingness to adapt to what the players can do, at least beyond the non-negotiables. - I would expect that you'll hear him talk about positional size, or something very similar to it (many coaches have their own way to say basically the same thing) at the press conference. A lot of his best teams have been on the taller, longer end, and the portal has enabled more of it. I don't know if they'll have a seven-footer, but I'd bet that they'll try to get bigger on the wings. It's a very attractive system for skilled bigs.

@DomIzzoWDAY Cheering for the Mets in this scenario is like pulling for the FBS team over an FCS team in the early season matchup.

Only bright spot tonight.

@DomIzzoWDAY It was great, but unfortunately they couldn't finish it off

Not great.

@HeadBallCoachWF #NightMan once drew a very realistic plallus on the carbon copy of my lineup card, which I of course didn't see until I tore it off and handed it to the umpire.

It’s time to bring back #NightMan at WF Football games 🤣 10-year anniversary!

@HeadBallCoachWF @NDSUmbb My favorite moment was maybe 4 minutes left, Jacari has the ball in his hands, hasn't stepped OB to inbound yet, and the official is just done with it. Starts counting as loud as possible and Jacari smiles and inbounds in time

@ndstrand @NDSUmbb Usually that is the way to go, but with NDSU being more of a ball control team they want to get set and organized, get the right people then all and let them make a decision and a play. It makes sense because of their personnel and style.

Tough win by @NDSUmbb and of course Darik Dissette did Darik Dissette things and played a huge part in the win! Congrats Bison!

@TheBullSheetUSU I live in a small North Dakota town, this reminds me of watching our class b girls basketball team when they are on the road

If I wanted to watch the game from space I would’ve bought a ticket in the nose bleeds.

@educator4ever36 The Chocolate War!

If there was one book that would be required reading of every high school student in America what book would you choose? I know this will be hard, but you can only choose one! I’m going to pick “Night” by Elie Wiesel.

@zachwillis57 So happy you still had this picture for this moment

#TrustTheProcess committed to the brotherhood.

@_undertherock_ @RandyPirner @GoJacksFB @570WNAXNEWS Our coaches have been leaving for greener pastures forever, not getting DUI'd and having to stay at the JV level 😂😂

@RandyPirner @GoJacksFB @570WNAXNEWS Don't be a Bison.

Rogers steps down to become head coach at Washington State More: GoJacks.com

@1111SanDiego Maaaan push off on SDSU on final missed 3 point attempt but I don't hear you talking about that.

That was 💯 a charge on Utah State and that was the key to swing the game. Aztecs also had some terrible play calls the last 48 seconds as well. Overall just a bad loss that was easily avoidable. #SDSUBasketball #sandiegostate #aztecs #sandiego

Once a Bison, always a Bison: Grant Nelson tossed up the horns after making free throws in response to "UND" chants on Wednesday night. @NDSUmbb @BisonReport

@DomIzzoWDAY @danwarner6 Like if NDSU loses somewhere down the road??

@danwarner6 @ndstrand Correct.

Covered a lot of games in this building. May be prisoner of the moment. This will be in the top five. ESPN’s on-site producer says “he wouldn’t be surprised if the ratings were high for this one.”

@danwarner6 @DomIzzoWDAY Why would they be on the same side of the bracket?

@DomIzzoWDAY Will be an epic rematch in the FargoDome in the playoffs

When self-esteem is artificially generated it becomes more manipulable; a product of social technique rather than a secure possession based on one's own accomplishments. Let kids earn their confidence.

@LouStagner do you remember posting a stat about the percentage tour pros make par from a recovery situation on tee shot? I can't find it anywhere!

@4golfonline @arccos How do you find this feature? I can't find it anywhere.

How good are your approach shots? A NEW feature from @arccos highlights just how good “some” of our approach shots are. We all know golf is tough and even on the bad days there are rays of hope. That one good shot that keeps us coming back for more. With the NEW Top Shots feature you can celebrate and learn from your best shots. We all hit some @PGATOUR quality approach shots, let’s celebrate when we do. Love it Arccos Golf.

@JaysonNickol I love this! Will be doing it with my hs golf team starting Monday.

@ndstrand Once you shoot par or better nine holes you move back. 25 then 50 then 100 then 150, 200

Chase and I both passed 25 Yards tonight @Op36Golf he had a blast! Proud of him. #golfdad

@JaysonNickol How many yards so you move back I meant.

@JaysonNickol So you move back after shooting par or better on a hole or for the round? How many yards?