NSIC Men's Basketball 25-26

[NSU4LIFE]

No hockey this weekend.

Im going to need some phot evidence. It SHOULD be filled all the time with how good a facility it is, but after the time we attended and I counted, by hand, 97 people and they announced over 1,000, 3k seems a little wild. Good for them, if true, though

[CoachSalscheider]

SCSU 102, Sioux Falls 65. 16-2 in the NSIC. The Huskies must be for real. Wow!

[vikingfaithful]

SCSU 102, Sioux Falls 65. 16-2 in the NSIC. The Huskies must be for real. Wow!

As season progresses, they've been getting better.

[NSICHoops]

They opened the season dealing with injuries and struggled. Got healthy and started winning. Now, they’re banged up again but still winning.

[Purple Mav Man]

Im going to need some phot evidence. It SHOULD be filled all the time with how good a facility it is, but after the time we attended and I counted, by hand, 97 people and they announced over 1,000, 3k seems a little wild. Good for them, if true, though

Always good to base it on one experience you had. Ha.

Not here to defend any previous numbers (that include season tickets as well) but there was definitely 3k+ there yesterday. Nice crowd. No photos though, unfortunately my head doesn’t usually go to “I should take photos of the crowd to prove the attendance on a message board” 🙂

[Purple Mav Man]

Hottest team in the Central right now, the Mavs with 10 wins in a row. I didn’t think I’d be typing that this season.

SW on their now annual free fall at the back half of the conference season.

St Cloud keeps winning

The north teams can get some wins again now, and maybe the north winner will finish over 500?

What a weird season

[Purple Mav Man]

Hottest team in the Central right now, the Mavs with 10 wins in a row. I didn’t think I’d be typing that this season.

SW on their now annual free fall at the back half of the conference season.

St Cloud keeps winning

The north teams can get some wins again now, and maybe the north winner will finish over 500?

What a weird season

Actually, St. Cloud has 12 straight wins. Augustana has the opportunity the end two double digit winning streaks this weekend (assuming St Cloud gets past Wayne)

[NSU4LIFE]

Always good to base it on one experience you had. Ha.

Not here to defend any previous numbers (that include season tickets as well) but there was definitely 3k+ there yesterday. Nice crowd. No photos though, unfortunately my head doesn’t usually go to “I should take photos of the crowd to prove the attendance on a message board” 🙂

Many experiences there, only one hand count however.

Like I said, great if they finally got people in there, ive just never seen a big crowd in the beautiful facility.

[Purple Mav Man]

Many experiences there, only one hand count however.

Like I said, great if they finally got people in there, ive just never seen a big crowd in the beautiful facility.

I’d guess the crowd against Winona will be on the smaller side (last home game) since it’ll be a Thursday night. If the women end up hosting the regional, their games will be very well attended. Likely 2500+

Sounds like Saturday was the highest attended D2 women’s game this season.

[Stanger86]

SW on their now annual free fall at the back half of the conference season.

Certainly frustrating....

But wild that of our 9 losses this season, 5 of them are by 3 points or less. We are right there most every night....could be a scary matchup come conference tournament time.

[Purple Mav Man]

Couple of interesting games this afternoon:

St. Cloud State at Augustana
Did the day in between games extinguish the fire that was Sam Rensch on Thursday? Will Augie knock down 3s at a high rate? St Cloud doesn’t stand out much anywhere, except rebounding and their record. And that’s what counts most...wins. They somehow win, and keep doing it. Rebounding will be a big key to this game, winner of the boards may ultimately decide the winner of the game. St Cloud has a +6.5 rebound margin over Augie in conference games. Ferguson will get his points and assists, and Winkel is likely to bounce back after an off night against Wayne. Should be a good one

Concordia-St. Paul at Southwest Minnesota State
I’d normally give the nod to the Mustangs on this one, but this group seems to struggle as the season gets deeper. Whoever dictates the pace of the game will likely come out ahead.

#1/#2 and #3/#4 in the conference meet up for an NSIC love fest. Further down, on the undercard is #5/#6 with MSU at Wayne. Far less exciting game than the St Cloud/Augie game, but it’s an important positional game.

[Augieholic]

Couple of interesting games this afternoon:

St. Cloud State at Augustana
Did the day in between games extinguish the fire that was Sam Rensch on Thursday? Will Augie knock down 3s at a high rate? St Cloud doesn’t stand out much anywhere, except rebounding and their record. And that’s what counts most...wins. They somehow win, and keep doing it. Rebounding will be a big key to this game, winner of the boards may ultimately decide the winner of the game. St Cloud has a +6.5 rebound margin over Augie in conference games. Ferguson will get his points and assists, and Winkel is likely to bounce back after an off night against Wayne. Should be a good one

Concordia-St. Paul at Southwest Minnesota State
I’d normally give the nod to the Mustangs on this one, but this group seems to struggle as the season gets deeper. Whoever dictates the pace of the game will likely come out ahead.

#1/#2 and #3/#4 in the conference meet up for an NSIC love fest. Further down, on the undercard is #5/#6 with MSU at Wayne. Far less exciting game than the St Cloud/Augie game, but it’s an important positional game.

St Cloud did a fantasic job denying/defending Tam in the first matchup with Ramlall being especially disruptive. I would love to see more aggression from whomever breaks the trap/press for Augie because most teams are not set on the back end if the inital pressure is broken.

Augie will have to gang rebound to finish posessions, Hawks caused some havoc earlier this season and must be accounted for on each miss.

Theyre honoring the 10 year anniversary of the 2016 National Champions at halftime, its 1 vs 2 in the league, this is all you can ask out of a mid February showdown.

[NSICHoops]

St Cloud doesn’t stand out much anywhere, except rebounding and their record. And that’s what counts most...wins.

I mean, sure if you don't think a Top-15/20 defense in Division II qualifies as "stand-out" -- 13th in defensive efficiency and 23rd in scoring D.

[MrMustang]

Certainly frustrating....

But wild that of our 9 losses this season, 5 of them are by 3 points or less. We are right there most every night....could be a scary matchup come conference tournament time.

plenty to hope for we'll see. we have looked pretty good at times and like garbage for much of the last 3 weeks.

some of that is sickness and having guys missing so maybe that will correct itself here down the home stretch

[laker]

Schedule update due to impending snowstorm.

The Minnesota Duluth at Minnesota Crookston basketball doubleheader has been moved up a day to Tuesday, Feb,. 17; the women’s game will start at 5:00 p.m. and the men’s contest at 7:00 p.m.