GDT: Oral Roberts

[met1990]

Anyone going to the game tonight?

[roadwarrior]

I'll be there.

[TheBisonator]

I'll be there. Just gotta get the ol' teleporter ready... :D

[BisonVifte]

I will be there.

[met1990]

Plucker has 7 so far. 11-4 Bison lead.

[met1990]

13-4 Bison with 15:58 left in the first half. Bison will be shooting an and-one after the break. It sounds like the ref just got teabagged.

[met1990]

Plucker nails a three as the shot clock ran out. 23-11 Bison.

ORU lay-in and a foul. 23-13 Bison with a FT upcoming. First foul on DeGagne.

FT no good.

Bison are shooting around 70 percent to ORU's 25 percent.

[met1990]

28-14 Bison. Plucker has 10 points, one rebound.

28-16 transition basket after a steal for ORU.

Burich fouled underneath. Makes both: 30-16 Bison.

[met1990]

Birkel buries a three. 33-16 Bison under nine minutes left in the half.

[met1990]

Bison shooting 76.5 percent.

Burich injures her left foot. Getting some help to the bench.

ORU has scored eight straight. 37-26 Bison lead.

40-26 Bison after another three.

Lay-in by ORU. 40-28.

Linz nails yet another three. She has 9 points. 43-28.

[met1990]

43-31 Bison with a couple minutes left in the half.

[met1990]

Burich has her ankle wrapped on the bench.

Stephenson is getting some minutes.

46-35 Bison lead within the final minute.

Shea banks in a shot. Assist from Linz. 48-35 Bison.

ORU hits a shot with two seconds left. 48-37 at halftime.

[met1990]

56-49 Bison lead. Shooting has cooled off a bit.

15:47 remaining.

[met1990]

56-51 Bison. I don't believe Burich has been in yet this half. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.

58-51 Bison.

Traveling on ORU with 14:50 left.

NDSU has 16 turnovers to ORU's 13.

58-53 Bison. ORU scores and awaits a FT. DeGagne picks up her fourth foul with 14:10 left. FT good. 58-54 Bison.

[met1990]

Never mind--Burich is back in the game. She scores to make it 60-54. Burich has 12.

Burich with another two. 62-54.

[met1990]

Bison 11-20 shooting from three. ORU is 2-19.

62-54 Bison lead.

Plucker has eight rebounds so far. Burich is out of the game getting her shoulder worked on.

11:22 left in the half.

[DjKyRo]

Plucker's had a huge stretch of games. Career double-double on Saturday and has eight boards now? Nasty.

[met1990]

Burich still out getting the shoulder worked on and DeGagne sits on the bench with four fouls with around 10 minutes left.

63-56 Bison.

63-59 Bison after an ORU three.

Birkel turnover. ORU lay-in in transition makes it 63-61 Bison. ORU on a 7-0 run.

ORU forces a steal. Lay-in ties it up at 63. Cooper for ORU has 18 points.

ORU averages 16.2 steals per game. They have 12 tonight.

[met1990]

Attendance tonight is 804.

DeGagne back in the game. She hits 1 of 2 FTs. 64-63 Bison.

ORU lays it in and takes its first lead of the game. 65-64 ORU.

Linz throws it away. ORU lay-up good and a foul. DeGagne fouls out of the game. 67-64 ORU. FT no good.

Less than 8 minutes left. Linz has a career-high three pointers tonight. Bison turnover with a shot clock violation.

[met1990]

Burich has a sore left shoulder and DeGagne fouled out. Will the Bison reach the end of the bench tonight?

[met1990]

Burich has ice on her shoulder.

ORU scores to make it 69-64 ORU. Bison have a backcourt violation for turnover No. 22.

Trecker hits a three. 69-67 ORU. Trecker has 9 points.

ORU fadeaway makes it 71-67 ORU.

[met1990]

ORU has 10 team fouls. Bison in the double bonus.

Linz hits two FTs. 71-69 ORU with 4:45 remaining.

ORU lay-in. 73-69. Jorgenson said Bison are tired.

ORU another steal and lay-in. 75-69. ORU has 173 steals tonight. I don't want to see the points off turnovers.

Another ORU steal and a Bison foul. 3:44 left in the game and the Bison seem out of gas.

[met1990]

1:05 remaining. ORU putting this one away. Up by 11.

[tony]

1:05 remaining. ORU putting this one away. Up by 11.

So, NDSU has gotten outscored by 22 in the second half? Ouch.

[DjKyRo]

How on earth do you cough up that lead in a game like this? 20+ turnovers? How?

[met1990]

I didn't listen to the postgame, but the Bison had to be pushing at least 20 turnovers. Apparently ORU is tied with Notre Dame for most steals per game.

When Burich or DeGagne were in the game, the Bison were able to control the interior. Once Burich got hurt and DeGagne fouled out, ORU was able to score a lot in the paint (and off turnovers). Those two stats were pretty much the game.

[Maize 'n' Blue]

Not happy with the results of the game. We should have put this one away. Once ORU got a few points ahead you could see the morale drop and then they self destructed.

tough one. one the good side of things we proved that we can play with this type of competition, just have to cut down on the silly mistakes and not give up when things dont go our way.

[Facts]

I didn't listen to the postgame, but the Bison had to be pushing at least 20 turnovers. Apparently ORU is tied with Notre Dame for most steals per game.

When Burich or DeGagne were in the game, the Bison were able to control the interior. Once Burich got hurt and DeGagne fouled out, ORU was able to score a lot in the paint (and off turnovers). Those two stats were pretty much the game.

Are you serious? The bison had no control of the interior for better than 4/5's of the entire game. Most of ORU's baskets were uncontested layups. To put this into perspective I think the Bison held ORU to 3/21 from 3 pt range.

Drive... dish... easy lay up.

The sad thing is it got to the point were you knew what was coming, but NDSU was so out of position they could do nothing to stop it.

Don't get me started on our lack of motion on the offensive end in the 2nd half.

[met1990]

Are you serious? The bison had no control of the interior for better than 4/5's of the entire game. Most of ORU's baskets were uncontested layups. To put this into perspective I think the Bison held ORU to 3/21 from 3 pt range.

Drive... dish... easy lay up.

The sad thing is it got to the point were you knew what was coming, but NDSU was so out of position they could do nothing to stop it.

Don't get me started on our lack of motion on the offensive end in the 2nd half.

Well, from my view of the radio, whenever Burich and DeGagne were in the game, the Bison were up by 12+ points and forcing turnovers. And I would venture to guess those two played about 1/5 of the game. ;)

How many players were left on the bench after those two were out? I know this team annually lacks depth, but haven't followed close enough this year to know how many bodies they can throw out there.

[Facts]

Well, from my view of the radio, whenever Burich and DeGagne were in the game, the Bison were up by 12+ points and forcing turnovers. And I would venture to guess those two played about 1/5 of the game. ;)

How many players were left on the bench after those two were out? I know this team annually lacks depth, but haven't followed close enough this year to know how many bodies they can throw out there.

You had a better view then! ;)

I don't think it mattered who was in defensively. NDSU had no answer. The reason the ladies were up so big in the 1st half was, to their credit, they shot the lights out. I don't know about minutes, all I know is the ORU dominated on both ends of the floor. NDSU was in the game because of stellar perimeter shooting.

[roadwarrior]

How many players were left on the bench after those two were out? I know this team annually lacks depth, but haven't followed close enough this year to know how many bodies they can throw out there.

I think only Peltier and Lako were available.

[X-Factor]

I have to agree with most of the posts here, this was a very disappointing loss from a very winnable game. The Bison kept carelessly throwing the ball away which was the difference in this game. I can't count the number of lob passes into traffic that resulted in a turnover.

[roadwarrior]

ORU went into a zone defense in the second half. The Bison found no way to attack it, other than throwing them the ball.

[imabison]

ORU went into a zone defense in the second half. The Bison found no way to attack it, other than throwing them the ball.

The ORU coach purpose spread the front of the zone out to cover the wings. NDSU had lost Burich by then. The point guard would come down the court stop her dribble, and the defense only had to heavy cover the wings. The middle needed to move more to the top of the key to get the ball moving.

Heard it mentioned by players on the radio and other people, NDSU played the 2nd half not to lose, and ORU played to win.

Before the adjustments and losing players, NDSU looked alot better than I have seen in along time.