DI countdown

[somebison]

9 days until July 1, when NDSU is recognized as Division I. Feel free to add

20 NC's minus 11 NC's = 9 more

[TheBisonator]

I thought we were officially Division I once the last spring sports season ended (track and field).

[somebison]

As I understand it, we become a DI university on July 1, after the DI CWS and July 1 is also the start of the new academic year.

Other recent 9's of note

Tony Stauss, former K- Aaron Pedersen

18 event titles at the 04 NCC outdoor track championships, divided by two teams= average of 9 titles per team

[somebison]

8 Football National Championships

Other recent football 8's of note- 3 safeties Mike Sheppard, Aaron Skyberg, Israel Moses

Baseball- Mike Peschel- 2 time NCC pitcher of the year, currently doing quite well with the RedHawks

Wrestling- Steve Saxlund (184 lbs- 8th in the lineup) multiple National Championships

[somebison]

7 national titles in the 90's

7 conference championships in last year of NCC

[somebison]

6= Number of sports NDSU has won National championships in

Football, W BB, Wrestling, Softball, W Indoor Track, M Cross Country

[MN_BISONS]

The number six also was Stacy Robinson's number. On a side note, my wife and I just moved and while going through some boxes, I found a bunch of old Bison football programs I kept over the years. One of special interest is the 1983 Palm Bowl program. The cover is of SW Texas St with Jim Wacker and some players holding the hardware. The following is a list of the Bison starters vs Central State of Ohio as listed in the program:

OFFENSE:
Stacy Robinson
Dave Piepkorn
Paul Olson
Greg Hagfors
Mike Whetstone
Phil Duginski
Terry Baer
Jeff Bentrim
Chad Stark
James Molstre
Jeff Conley

Defense:
Lee Monson
Marc Braeger
Mike Statton
Steve Krause
Jim Dick
Chris Broome
Jon Dunbar
Doug Hushka
Barry Sorensen
Jeff Willer
Tom Van Voorhis

One other thing I picked up on while looking through the program is that of all the teams in the championship game to that point are now out of DII. NDSU and UC Davis were the last to go.

[somebison]

5- days =5 National Titles for the Women's basketball team.

Also the length (in inches) of Gene Roebuck's porn stache.

Other 5

Rob Hyland

[somebison]

4-days= 4 national titles for the wrestling team who had a disappointing (for them) runner-up finish this year.

other 4's- Chris Baso catcher 2-time all region

and WBB player Amanda Krenz http://siouxsports.com/forums/html/emoticons/inlove.gif

http://www.gobison.com/gallery/images/1076276739.jpg

[somebison]

3= the number of sports NDSU has won multiple championships in (FB, WBB,WR), also the number of sports NDSU has won one title in (CC, SB, WTrack)

[Herd_Mentality]

:o 3 = Arden Beachy :o

[89rabbit]

Happy D-I Day Bison! ;D ;D 8) 8) ;D ;D

Go State! ;D

[whatever_]

Also happy D1 day to you man...been far too long. Being a SD native, this should have been done for both schools moons ago.

Shipped a lot of great athletes out of state that may have stayed.

[TheBisonator]

We're DI!!! Woooo-hoooo!!!

8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

[uncbear]

I knew you guys had some national championships but wasn't aware how many.

I have national championship envy!

[lucchesicourt]

unc bear,

NDSU has been a great D2 power for 20+ years, like the Ags, with one exception, they have won the big games. NDSU is a very high quality program, and every time we play them, I know, it will be a tough game. But, at the same time it is a great pleasure to play a team of their caliber. It let's you know just how you stack up with the rest of the teams in the conference. If you beat them, you know you will be competetive with ALL the other teams you will play.
They are a class organization and in general a good group of people (I can say the same for GVSU as when we played them last year, they too won with class 9-6 OT).
I hope our fans and team show the same respect when we play at your schools. It is more fun when you have a good competetive spirit between foes. As for UNC, when we Ags played you guys last year, I will say I believe you to have been the best of the teams we played. You were the only team that beat us, by more than what the score showed. All our other lossess could easily have been wins, but you were the better team on that day. Maybe, we'll get you at your house this year. Good Luck.

[somebison]

SDSU release (http://www3.sdstate.edu/Athletics/VarsitySports/Index.cfm)

[somebison]

forum article (http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=62464&section=Sports)