Last night three Minnesota high school products each came within ten points of singlehandedly outscoring the Gophers -- Ben Woodside had 32, Brett Winkelman had 34, and Noah Dahlman had 36.
 
By the way, those two Bison illustrate the big problem North Dakota State will face next season.  Unless they have landed a bucketload of top recruits that I am not aware of, they won't have anybody who can score.  They lose four seniors, including three four-year starters who combine to average 53 points a game.  Other than their one returning starter (who is averaging all of 9 points a game this season) who will get points for them next season? Josh Vaughan?  DeJuan Flowers, who has been held without a basket in 10 games this season?  Freddy Coleman, who has been held without a POINT in 12 games this season?  Eric Carlson will probably be asked to score a lot more, but in his freshman season he has only 2 games agains D1 opponents in which he scored more than 5 points.  And who will play center?  Junior Sam Sussenguth has 5 DNPs and 16 games without a point this season, and they have nobody else.  The great move in 2004 to get Woodside, Winkelman, and Wisconsinite Mike Nelson and redshirt them worked out well, but the Bison really have not done much of anything to build on that since.  I'm afraid they might be heading for a big crash in 2010.   

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