The Games: The North Dakota State men’s basketball team will open the 2022-23 season with a road trip to take on No. 10-ranked Arkansas on Monday, Nov. 7, and No. 5-ranked and defending national champion Kansas on Thursday, Nov. 10.
Radio: Rob Hipp will call both games on 107.9 The Fox and the 107.9 The Fox app. Audio of all NDSU basketball games is always streamed free at GoBison.com/AllAccess.
Where to Watch: The Arkansas game will be streamed on SEC Network+ and the ESPN app. The Kansas game will air exclusively on ESPN+.
History with Arkansas: North Dakota State and Arkansas have met only once previously in basketball, with the Razorbacks winning 71-55 on Dec. 20, 2016, in Bud Walton Arena.
Last Time vs. Arkansas: The Bison were in a second-half tie with the Razorbacks, but Arkansas went on a 16-0 run to take control of the game and hand NDSU a 71-55 defeat on Dec. 20, 2016.
The game was tied at 29-29 with 17:45 remaining after a fast-break bucket by Carlin Dupree. The Razorbacks went on a 16-0 run over the next five minutes, keyed by three consecutive three-pointers from Dusty Hannahs and Daryl Macon.
NDSU held Arkansas under its season scoring average of 84 points per game, as well as limiting the Razorbacks to a season-low five fast-break points.
History with Kansas: The Bison are 0-2 all-time against the Jayhawks. NDSU and Kansas played in the first round of the 2009 NCAA Tournament – an 84-74 victory inside the Metrodome in Minneapolis for the No. 3 seed Jayhawks over the No. 14 seed Bison.
Last Time vs. Kansas: The Bison led for more than 28 minutes and held a three-point advantage late in the game, but No. 7-ranked Kansas rallied for a 65-61 victory on Dec. 5, 2020, at Allen Fieldhouse.
The Bison led 61-58 following a free throw by freshman Dezmond McKinney with 3:57 remaining, but the Jayhawks scored the final seven points of the contest. Five of Kansas’s final seven points came at the free throw line.
NDSU held a seven-point lead at 51-44 with 12 minutes remaining. Aside from ties at 51-51 and 58-58, NDSU led from 17:52 until 1:20 remaining in the game.
Highest Ranked Win: The highest-ranked opponent that NDSU has ever defeated in men’s basketball was No. 8/9 Marquette on Dec. 2, 2006.
Last Top 25 Win: NDSU’s last victory over a ranked opponent was the 80-75 first-round win over No. 20 Oklahoma in the 2014 NCAA Tournament.
Top Tier: Over the past three seasons, NDSU ranks 50th out of 358 Division I schools in winning percentage.
Climbing the Charts: Head coach David Richman ranks third in North Dakota State men’s basketball history with 159 career wins. His overall record of 159-97 gives him the second-highest winning percentage (.621) of any Bison coach since 1925 who spent at least three seasons at NDSU.
Four Straight Title Games: The Bison have played in four consecutive Summit League Tournament championship games from 2019-22, winning the title in 2019 and 2020. NDSU has played in eight of the past ten Summit League championship games, dating back to March 2013.
Averaging 20+ Wins: NDSU has 82 wins over the last four seasons, tied for the 59th-most in all of Division I.
Consistently Good: NDSU has won at least 19 games in eight of the past ten seasons.
Top of the Summit: North Dakota State and South Dakota State are the only Summit League schools to finish among the top three in the league standings every year over the past four seasons.
In six of David Richman’s eight seasons at NDSU, the Bison have finished in a tie for third place or better in The Summit League.
Into the Gauntlet: NDSU opens with games at No. 10 Arkansas and No. 5 Kansas this season. It will mark the first time the Bison play back-to-back ranked teams since Nov. 29 and Dec. 5, 2020, when NDSU played at No. 11 Creighton and No. 7 Kansas.
The Bison opened the 2014-15 season in a similar fashion when the first two games of David Richman’s tenure as head coach were at No. 10 Texas and No. 25 Iowa on Nov. 14-17, 2014.
Lockdown the Arc: NDSU nearly set a school record for three-point field goal defense last season, limiting opponents to 32.0 percent shooting from beyond the arc for the second-lowest percentage in school history. Each of the past three seasons have fallen inside the NDSU all-time top 10 for best three-point defense.
Cashing In: Five of the top six marks in NDSU history for team free throw percentage have come in the past five years. The Bison have shot 76 percent or better at the free throw line in each of those past five seasons, which had only happened once previously in program history (1984-85).
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