Up Next: Drake

[9YRPLAN]

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We had a good recruit from Chicago until he started robbing people at gunpoint.

[UNIChippewa]

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Well, considering this team's struggles on the road it might have been a bit much to ask them to win two consecutive road games. With that being written though if you would have asked me a few days ago I would have guessed a loss at MSU and a win at Drake.

From the box score it looks like it just wasn't our night all-around. Glad we made a mighty comeback at the end, disappointed we fell short at the end.

['70 Grad]

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Rooting for a .500 team is frustrating! You care, but it is not there.

In 6 point or under/overtime games this year, we are 3-7.

[Kyle]

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The loss sucks, but coming home from this road trip 1-1 is a step forward for this team.

And our football program is fine.

Next season will be a defining one for basketball. If it turns into another dumpster fire, sh!t is going to hit the fan.

[run&blade]

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If basketball doesnt turn it around big time next season they are going to need free pizza for everybody....not just the students.

[northwest iowa panther]

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Miami has an enrollment of roughly 5 times what Drake has. Not a good comparison. Prestige and money at these schools is not even in the same galaxy, either. Same goes for the Duke example.

If enrollment has nothing to do with it and its all about money (again, I don't know), why is Wartburg D-3? Their facilities blow away Drake's. That school has all kinds of money coming in.

This is why I put "this is a serious question" in my post. I assumed that there was some sort of enrollment minimum to qualify as D-1, but I was not sure. That is why I asked.

The University of Tulsa has less than 5,5oo undergrads.

[Trapped in California]

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Gonzaga - 5,000 undergrads
St Mary's (CA) - 3,000 undergrads


How do they qualify - they follow the rulebook, and sponsor the sports. Football is the only place where all the crazy attendance rules, etc start kicking in.

[MnPantherFan]

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FYI Tartan is in a St Paul suburb. I know nobody cares but people on this side of the river are very sensitive about these issues. Some more info that nobody cares about, following UNI and U of M the last couple days has been especially tough. Last night they lost to last place Illini at home. At one point they missed 15 straight 3 pt. attempts!

[sivert]

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Since this is the -vs-Drake discussion, maybe we should discuss recruiting Holland instead of Chicago. I think the announcer said that big kid had been on the national team.

[GonzoCat]

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Denmark. We were calling him the great dane, then went with Marmakuke. He lacks bb skills in abundance, but he's only a freshman and could develop into quite a player. 6-11 and very solid. The type of body we haven't had in, oh forever or so.

[Panther-Sheik]

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Austin Pehl just graduated. Just saying.

[arealcat]

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Austin Pehl just graduated. Just saying.

Yes, we wish for the big bodies even if they lack basketball talent, but then can't stand them because they are wasting a scholarship because they are just a big body with no basketball talent.

Nobody is ever happy.

[run&blade]

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UNI seems to have no problem "wasting" scholarships on what seems like 50 guards and undersized forwards. I wish they would "waste" more (as in try) on big guys that might blossom by the end of their career.

When a team has been mediocre four years in a row I think it is natural to question their methods and hope they change those methods.

Good lord they haven't even won a single MVC tournament game in a long time.