McFeely: Maybe Bison’s women have hope against Jackrabbits after everything – inforum

This column was written by part time. Made. Ready to be published. The Women’s Basketball team of the state of South Dakota was on its way to enruting the state of North Dakota again after a second dominant trimester in Brookings.

The same as always, the same age.

Then the third quarter occurred.

It is time to rewrite.

Not completely, but significantly.

To be clear, the bison lost to the Jackrabbits. Again.

SDSU won 63-55 on Wednesday at First Bank & Trust Arena, the 55th Regular Season Victoria of the Regular League of the Summit League for the powerful Jackrabbits.

It was the 23rd SDSU consecutive victory over NDSU, a streak dating from January 4, 2015, when the bison beat the Jacks 83-78 at the Scheels Aren The Sanford Health Health Atlético Complex.

So, in the end, nothing changed.

But the border led in the fourth quarter.

And they were tied with the powerful Jackrabbits 55-55 with 3 minutes, 15 seconds in the game.

They had the opportunity to overcome SDSU.

There was hope.

That is something that NDSU has not been able to say often since the bison fell so far from the jackrabbits in the era of division I.

It can be thin as a sheet of paper, but maybe the bison has the opportunity to overcome SDSU when the teams are again in Fargo in two weeks.

Or next our hearts, in the Sumbre League tournament in early March.

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The way this series has passed the last 20 years and as well as the Jackrabbits, that is above all that Bison can expect.

An opportunity.

It didn’t seem that there was even that after the second quarter.

After Molly Lenz nailed a triple of only 14 seconds in the second quarter to give NDSU a 18-13 advantage, the Jackrabbits did what the Jackrabbits do.

They went up to the Bison 18-0 in the next 8 minutes, 42 seconds to take an advantage of 31-18.

Ndsu was 0 by 8 on that section and could not hold on to the ball. The bison had 12 ball losses in the first half, a Bugaboo that is chased to coach Jory Collins coach at several points this season.

It was 31-20 in the half time.

This column was written before the second half began. The theme was this: there is a significant gap, despite the promising beginning of NDSU in the conference list this season.

But then … I hope.

The bison had a 14-0 race in the third quarter and, after an abbie Draper setback, took an advantage of 41-37 with 41 seconds in the stanza. SDSU cut the margin to 41-39 at the end of the room with a Brooklyn Meyer cube.

“I was really proud of how we left for part. After the game. “We have to be able to be more consistent in that sense and put 12, 13, 14 minimum points every quarter. But to come in the third quarter I thought we were much more assertive, much more aggressive and had a great quarter in both purposes.

A Draper’s short bridge tied the game with 55-there with 3:15 remaining. Could this be happening?

He was establishing being NDSU’s biggest victory in his two decades in Division I.

Could the bison do this?

No.

Ndsu was left without score the rest of the road, losing four shots and making two ball losses.

The talented and veteran Jackrabbits finished the game in an 8-0 race.

Katie Vasecka reached a second place after Draper’s jumper for an advantage of 58-55 SDSU and a Paige Meyer driving tray was 60-55 with remaining 2:09.

Ndsu passed an open triple and followed him with a turnover. Two Byom table free throws gave the Jacks a 62-55 advantage with remaining 27 seconds and that was all he wrote.

Another Byom free kick closed the scoreboard.

NDSU, a team that makes less than six triples per game and averages 31.5%, was 9 of 20 (45%) from the depths. Senior Abby Schulte had 3 of 7. He entered the game 5 of 30 for the season, without having done more than one in each of the 20 previous competitions.

“I loved Schulte’s aggressiveness. I would love to see that every night,” Collins said. “He took seven three and does not really want to take them. I just said: ‘You have to take them. They are leaving you.’ And she shoots a large percentage, goes three by seven.

It was almost enough to stop the wave of tides that is SDSU with the unbeatable crew of Brooklyn Meyer, Paige Meyer, Haleigh Timmer and many others.

Maybe next time, when SDSU visits NDSU on February 12.

It is something that Bison fans can look forward.

After all, there is hope.

Mike McFeely is a columnist of the Fargo-Morhead forum. He began working for the forum in the 1980s while he was a student who studied journalism at the State University of Minnesota Moorhead. He has been in the full -time forum since 1990, less a six -year parenthesis when he was hosting a local radio program.