The number three moment on the KVRR Sports Team’s list of the top sports moments of 2015 is the NDSU Basketball team making it second consecutive NCAA Tournament.Bison Coach Dave Richman, in his first season at the helm, led NDSU to a 23-10 record, eventually losing to Gonzaga in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The Bison earned their…
King Frazier rushed for 121 yards and two touchdowns as North Dakota State advanced to its fifth straight NCAA Division I football championship game with a 33-7 victory over Richmond in the FCS semifinals Friday, Dec. 18, before a crowd of 18,105 at Gate City Bank Field at the Fargodome.North Dakota State’s defense held its opponent to a season-low yardage total for the third straight game. Nick DeLuca made six tackles, Tre Dempsey and CJ Smith each intercepted passes, and the Bison had five pass breakups and five quarterback hurries in holding Richmond to 209 yards.The Bison (12-2) got a 31-yard return from freshman Bruce Anderson on the opening kickoff and marched 68 yards in nine plays capped by Frazier’s two-yard run for a 6-0 lead.Chase Morlock caught a 27-yard touchdown pass at the end of the first quarter, Zach Vraa hauled in a 12-yard touchdown, and Eric Perkins scored on an 88-yard punt return to give NDSU a 26-0 lead by halftime.Richmond (10-4) got its only points on a 55-yard pass from quarterback Kyle Lauletta to Garrett Hudson early in the third quarter. Lauletta finished 12 of 26 passing for 171 yards for the Spiders, who had just 38 yards on the ground.Frazier scored on another 2-yard run with 6:11 left to close a methodical 18-play, 87-yard drive that consumed more than 10 minutes of the third and fourth quarters.North Dakota State, the No. 3 overall seed in the playoffs, will play either Sam Houston State or No. 1 seed Jacksonville State in the championship game at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 9, at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas.
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NDSU Football will play with a different quarterback on Saturday, after the school announced Carson Wentz will miss the next 6–8 weeks with a wrist injury.
NDSU Sr. quarterback Carson Wentz will miss six to eight weeks with a broken bone in his right wrist, the school announced via a press release on Tuesday afternoon.
NDSU is welcoming ESPN back for its third year in a row, but if you know anything about bison pride it’s not difficult to figure out why.
The Bison are used to celebrating. The Dragons, not so much.
The excessive heat wave is still baking the region.
University of North Dakota athletics director Brian Faison announced on Tuesday that veteran sports broadcaster Pat Sweeney will serve as the play-by-play radio voice for the football program during the 2015 season. Sweeney will join color commentator Mike Berg and sideline reporter Paul Ralston to form the team calling the games on the Home of Economy Radio Network.
Fourth-year head women’s basketball coach Travis Brewster officially announced his team’s 2015-16 schedule, a slate that includes 31 games, including 16 at the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center. “We’ve got some quality opponents on our schedule again,” Brewster said. “Our non-conference schedule includes some teams that play an exciting brand of basketball.”The schedule opens with a pair of exhibition tilts at home against Mayville State (Nov. 1) and Minnesota Crookston (Nov. 8) before UND hits the road to Iowa for a tournament against the host Hawkeyes and Tennessee-Martin to lift the lid on the regular season. After a visit from Nebraska-Omaha on Nov. 17 in the regular season home opener, UND heads back to Iowa for a Nov. 22 contest against Drake before embarking on a Thanksgiving weekend trip to San Francisco (Nov. 25) and Oregon (Nov. 28). The month of December will see four straight home games, all against regional opponents. Northern Iowa opens the homestand Dec. 5 then three consecutive matchups against Summit League opponents begins Dec. 8 against Western Illinois. Rival North Dakota State invades the Betty on Dec. 12th with South Dakota a week later. The non-conference schedule wraps up with a Dec. 23 date at Minnesota. “Keeping a tough non-conference schedule helps us prepare for that Big Sky schedule,” Brewster said. “This schedule will test our team right away, newcomers won’t get to be newcomers for long. The team will need to keep their heads and stay together on the floor, this will test the leadership abilities of the upperclassmen. It’s an exciting schedule for our fans– that’s very important– while also trying to develop the team with eight new faces, to embrace the process for the long haul, which is the ultimate goal.”UND’s fourth season in the Big Sky Conference sees another challenging mix of games against the other 11 league schools. North Dakota will play host to all of the other schools except for Sacramento State and Portland State while making the trip to every Big Sky venue except Northern Arizona and Southern Utah for the 18-game league slate.The highlights include the opener on New Year’s Eve at Idaho in the first Big Sky Conference tilt played in Moscow, Idaho between the schools. The annual trek to the Montana schools comes Jan. 14-16 with the Bobcats of Montana State leading off the trip and the defending league champion Lady Griz the opponent on Jan. 16.”Each game we play is going to require three things that we can control: our excellent attitude, effort and concentration,” Brewster said. The Big Sky Conference has relocated its postseason tournament to a neutral site, signing a three-year agreement to bring both men’s and women’s championships to Reno, Nev. All 12 men’s and all 12 women’s teams from the conference will participate in the championship with dates and tournament format announced at a later date.”I’m excited about the tournament in Reno,” Brewster said. “Looking ahead, everyone’s in the same boat there. We need to keep progressing in the regular season right into the tournament.”Season tickets are on sale now and start at only $90. Fans can purchase tickets by contacting Paul Adelman, Director of Ticket Sales, at 701-777-4582 or emailing him at paul.adelman@athletics.und.edu.
