Sports Ill. mag bracket had NDSU picked, I wonder if some on ESPN also had that win pegged.
NDSU plays defense, and is physical—foreign concepts in this day and age of shoot the 3 or throw it down from 3 inches.
A number of people did pick Dayton, after all, that is a bit of an Inter-State Rivalry and Ohio has some fairly good roundball with Ohio State, Cincy of course and I remember watching the Cleveland State Vikings in one NCAA tourney.
At the end of the game in regulation time at least, the NDSU guy got the knock on the head from the guy’s shoe or knee, that was pretty serious and the play was dead. I guess not enough to rule anything more than incidental contact. Was pretty ugly looking though and one had to wonder as NDSU just got a crucial score.