Maybe your opponent had something to do with that performance.
If North Dakota plays decent (average) tonight, and Minnesota played the way that they played, North Dakota wins.
Man Gopher fans are bitter bears. They win a game but they whine because someone says UND played like crap.
Hard to say if UND played better that UM wouldn't have also. I agree that Wilcox was a big game-changer, but the Gophers' PP wasn't at its best either so it's really hard to envision how 'what-ifs' may have changed the outcome.
We're trying to give UND credit *gasp* for not playing as bad as FS23 is claiming. According to FS23, PSU would have rolled them tonight.
I don't think Minnesota had anything to do with constantly missing wide open passes, poor/shaky goaltending, poor decision making when you have all day in your own end, and playing with a lack of emotion. It wouldn't have mattered if we were playing Sacred Heart or Minnesota tonight...we weren't going to win.
Minnesota played well. As I've said many times, they are a pretty consistent group. They didn't play lights out tonight, but they didn't need to either. That being said, Minnesota wasn't the reason that North Dakota played as awful as they did. Tonight's loss was completely on North Dakota playing like, in the words of the eloquent KenGernanderguy, "poop."
Hopefully they figure their *** from their elbow tomorrow and put up a decent performance...
no, The number one ranked Gophers intimidated UND.
You'll have to excuse me if I expect my team to play better than one of their worst performances of the season in a big game.
Ha, I call bs you guys have played worse and this was far from it.
Please give me 1 example of North Dakota playing worse? I certainly cannot think of one.
The UAA series didn't look that great. I wasn't 100% attention, but had it on....
It was still better than tonight. Plus, that series was the 1st series where we had a somewhat normal lineup, and back in October.
I'm really trying to think of another performance that was worse than tonight...
It wouldn't have mattered if we were playing Sacred Heart or Minnesota tonight...we weren't going to win.
Of course you are, but the team you played against had a say in why you played that way.