NDSU TO FBS. HAVEN'T WE WON ENOUGH?
Grant Nelson scored 27 points, he's been the guy during league play most nights, the offense is not usually problem, it was Thursday but that was just a horrible game all around. The problem is getting stops, Mayo scoring 41 is ridiculous but he just had a phenomenal game, when he gets hot like that he's very difficult to slow down. We contained him up in Fargo, we win, he goes off down there we lose. SDSU goes as Mayo goes for the most part, if we see them again we need to do a better job forcing him to give the ball up.
The play at the end pissed me off. I have to assume Dave's thinking was that they would foul and force us to take free throws down 3 and then with no timeouts left they would be able to get the ball in quick and get back to the line on the other end and we'd run out of game. So the idea of trying to advance the ball to get a catch, a quick pass and a 3 was probably the right move but the design wasn't good and Boden's pass was awful. Grant was open but they ran Miller right in front of him so his defender intercepted the pass, gotta keep the guards in the backcourt until the pass is thrown in that situation. That being said if Boden throws it harder and higher up it probably gets to Grant anyway, that slow lob was terrible.