From Ben Woodside through Taylor Braun & Lawrence Alexander to Grant Nelson, the NDSU men's basketball team has regularly had star players who lead them to Sioux Falls and the opportunity to compete on the biggest stage of college sports. Doing it all under one coach would be remarkable - that it's been maintained through three different leaderships is in a different stratosphere altogether. I will grant that Dave Richman has had some warts but most of those came in the early

The Upside Down is a trendy bit right now because of a certain extremely-popular series but far from fiction, that's been the existence for Minnesota football fans on Sundays of late and now also applies to the NDSU football team. Not since 2009 have the Bison had their season conclude this early That is the dynasty Many of the current players had not even held a full-size football when it started It's truly a remarkable run of consistency That is the big picture but for the

In an era of spread offense where scoring 40 points is commonplace, the trip to Grand Forks was an aberration. A splendid aberration with the way the game unfolded but it leaves a lot less for those who just want to see highlight touchdowns and big plays on offense. But the defenses were the story of the game. Donovan Woolen, Logan Kopp, Toby Anene and Anthony Chideme-Alfaro will be the most oft-discussed members of Code Green in the upcoming week for what they did to impact

Every road trip will include the unexpected. A flat tire, engine trouble, random bumper-to-bumper traffic, you get the idea. The unexpected is inevitable. In much the same way, the journey of a football season will include games which are not foreseen. This season's visit by Youngstown State falls firmly into that category. If you want to claim otherwise you weren't looking at the details. 17 points scored against North Dakota, a three-point win over Towson and five ahead of

Four games after but the last perceived major hurdle to the top seed came in Brookings. Many of the matchups over the years, both regular & post season, have been classics and while it was in a different way, this iteration of the Marker Game was as well. The credit for that resides overwhelmingly with Cole Payton and everyone who helped block for him as he tore apart the Jackrabbit defense. The four scores and 148 on the ground will be talked about long past the days of him