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Women’s Basketball, Page 6 February 29, 2008 S i n c e G e n e Roebuck was hired as the University of N o r t h Dakota’s women’s basketball coach in June 1987, he has firmly placed the Fighting Sioux program into the upper echelon of Division II success. But was it possible even for Roebuck, in his 21st season at UND, to imagine what has evolved during his tenure at UND, including becoming the winningest coach (.856 winning percentage) in Division II women’s basketball history? The 2006-07 season was another memorable one, as Roebuck surpassed 500 victories at UND and led the Fighting Sioux to a fifth NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Elite Eight in 10 years. Along the way the Sioux also captured a third consecutive North Central Conference title (11th overall), a seventh straight NCC playoff tournament championship and an NCAA North Central Region crown, the latter two coming on UND’s home court. It was UND’s 19th NCAA appearance under Roebuck, who collected his 10th NCC Coach of the Year award. The 2005-06 Sioux rolled to a 34-1 record last season that included a perfect 12-0 mark in North Central Conference play. Roebuck capped the season by being named the 2006 Russell Athletic/WBCA Division II Region Coach of the Year. During his time behind the UND bench, Roebuck has instilled an uptempo pace in a Fighting Sioux program that amasses wins nearly as frequently as it tallies transition baskets. Roebuck’s teams have become accustomed to bringing home hardware. After national championships in 1997, 1998 and 1999, Roebuck guided the 2001 team to within a basket of the Sioux’s fourth national title in five seasons. In UND Head Coach Gene Roebuck (21st year) that season, UND took home its first NCC Wells Fargo Finals championship and have won it every year since (seven straight). Since 1990, UND has gone 489-73 and has won 11 North Central Conference championships. He has produced the WBCA Player of the Year four times since 1995 and has had seven NCC MVPs. He has also had 17 players be named All-American and 50 players become All-NCC. Had Roebuck come into a program that was already producing similar results, continuing such success would have been remarkable in itself, but prior to Roebuck’s arrival, UND had had 13 seasons of basketball in which the Sioux teams went 177-161. Seven seasons above .500, six seasons below. The 1987 team that he inherited had gone 7-20. The seven wins were five fewer than the 12 UND won in 1986, which was down from 23 wins in 1985. The program had played in a grand total of two NCAA tournament games, losing both. The program seemed to be spiraling downward, but Roebuck, who had gone 87-14 in three seasons at UND- Lake Region, got to work establishing the program he thought UND could be. The results were immediate and they were impressive. The 1988 team opened up winning its first 15 games, including a 61-59 win at Division I Arizona. The Sioux took that perfect record into Fargo for Roebuck’s first matchup with North Dakota State, the program that had already achieved the level of success Roebuck thought UND could achieve and even surpass. Though the Sioux lost, 77-70, it was clear to Roebuck and followers of UND women’s basketball that the program was on its way to bigger and better things. The 1988 team went on to win 22 games and advance to the NCAA regionals for just the third time in the program’s history. Roebuck and the Sioux were off and running. The 1989 team posted a 19-9 record. Roebuck’s Coaching Record UND - Lake Region Year Overall Pct. 1984-85 28- 4 (.875) 1985-86 29- 4 (.878) 1986-87 30- 6 (.833) Totals 87- 14 (.861) North Dakota Year Overall Pct. NCC Place 1987-88 22- 6 (.786) 9- 5 3rd 1988-89 19- 9 (.679) 6- 8 5th 1989-90 ^ 27- 4 (.871) 16- 2 1st 1990-91 ^ 28- 2 (.933) 17- 1 1st 1991-92 24- 7 (.774) 13- 5 3rd 1992-93 23- 5 (.821) 16- 2 T-1st 1993-94 ^ 26- 2 (.929) 18- 0 1st 1994-95 23- 5 (.821) 15- 3 2nd 1995-96 26- 6 (.813) 14- 4 3rd 1996-97 * 28- 4 (.875) 14- 4 3rd 1997-98 *^ 31- 1 (.969) 18- 0 1st 1998-99 *^ 31- 1 (.969) 17- 1 1st 1999-00 25- 5 (.833) 15- 3 2nd 2000-01 ^ 29- 4 (.879) 15- 3 1st 2001-02 ^ 24- 5 (.828) 14- 4 1st 2002-03 26- 6 (.813) 12- 4 T-3rd 2003-04 27- 6 (.818) 10- 4 3rd 2004-05 ^ 25- 6 (.806) 10- 2 1st 2005-06 ^ 34- 1 (.971) 12- 0 1st 2006-07 ^ 32- 4 (.889) 10- 2 1st 2007-08 24- 2 (.923) 9- 2 2nd Totals 554- 91 (.859) 280- 59 (.826) Overall 641- 105 (.859) ^ indicates NCC Coach of the Year * indicates NCAA Division II national champions NCAA Division II tournament appearances: 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007 Though the 19 wins would be Roebuck’s only time not reaching at least 20 wins, it was still a mark that had only been reached by the 1980 (19-8), 1984 (22-7) and 1985 (23-6) UND teams. The first of two watershed breakthroughs for the program occurred during the 1990 season. That team finished 27-4, Durene Heisler would become UND’s first NCC MVP and first All-American, Roebuck won the first of his seven NCC Coach of the Year awards and UND returned to the NCAA tournament, to which it has advanced every year since. A 93- 78 victory over Augustana in the first round was the program’s first postseason victory, which was followed by a 90-58 defeat of North Dakota State. Though the Sioux lost to Cal Poly Pomona in the national quarterfinals, UND had reached a new level of expectation.
Women’s Basketball, Page 7 February 29, 29, 2008 Roebuck All-Time at UND Overall Record: 554-91 (.859) Home: 299-30 (.909) Road: 212-53 (.800) Neutral: 43-8 (.843) NCC Record: 280-59 (.826) Home: 148-21 (.876) Road: 132-38 (.776) Non-Conference Record: 245-22 (.918) Home: 137-7 (.951) Road: 77-9 (.895) Neutral: 31-6 (.838) Postseason Record: 50-16 (.758) NCC Tournament: 16-0 (1.000) NCAA Regional: 25-11 (.694) Elite Eight: 11-4 (.733) Overtime Games: 8-5 (.615) One-Point Games: 7-5 (.583) Two-Point Games: 12-8 (.600) Three-Point Games: 14-10 (.583) UND went 150-27 over the next six years, winning three NCC titles and averaging a remarkable 25 wins per year. The two steps (compete against the best teams in the North Central Conference and win the NCC championships) of Roebuck’s plan were clearly accomplished and the groundwork was now in place for the program’s second watershed breakthrough. It came on March 9, 1997, at North Dakota State in the championship game of the NCAA Division II North Central Regional. The Sioux were in the NCAA Roebuck Versus Opponents Augustana 37- 10 Minnesota Duluth 27- 2 Minnesota State 41- 2 Nebraska-Omaha 41- 2 St. Cloud State 39- 7 South Dakota 36- 9 Adams State 1- 0 Alaska-Fairbanks 3- 0 American-Puerto Rico 1- 0 Arizona 1- 0 Arkansas Tech 1- 0 Ashland 1- 0 Barry 3- 0 Bellarmine 1- 0 Bentley 2- 0 Bemidji State 15- 0 Bethel 1- 0 Bloomsburg 1- 0 Brigham Young-Hawaii 1- 0 Cal Poly Pomona 0- 2 Cal State-Chico 2- 0 Cal State-Stanislaus 3- 0 Cameron 1- 0 Central Oklahoma 1- 0 College of the Ozarks 1- 0 Colorado Mines 1- 0 tournament for the eighth consecutive year, and if a national championship was to be won, what better place to take the step that had not been taken before than the Bison Sports Arena? If the Sioux wanted to be the best, they would have to beat the best. NDSU was the four-time defending national champions and had won 58 straight games on its home court. Down 64-54 with six minutes to play, UND went on a nearly inconceivable 19-2 run to close out the game, moving onto the Elite Eight and moving up to Roebuck’s final step, that being national champions. That happened the following weekend at the Elite Eight that was played in Grand Forks, where the 1997 Sioux won a national championship, but did so using the groundwork laid out by the teams of the early and mid-90s. The Sioux would win two more national titles in 1998 and 1999 and advance to the 2001 national championship game. Roebuck’s athletic success began at Velva (N.D.) High School, where he earned 12 letters in football, basketball and baseball. He would go on to play both baseball and basketball at Mayville State (N.D.), where he would earn a degree in physical education and business education in 1969. While at MSU, Roebuck was a four-year letterwinner and three-year starter in basketball. He also excelled in Colorado State-Pueblo 4- 0 Columbus State 1- 0 Concordia-St. Paul 3- 1 Dakota State 4- 0 Delta State 0- 1 Denver 2- 0 Dickinson State 3- 0 Drury 0- 1 Eckerd 1- 0 Edinboro 1- 0 Emporia State 2- 0 Ferris State 1- 0 Florida Atlantic 1- 0 Florida Gulf Coast 0- 1 Florida Southern 1- 0 Florida Tech 1- 0 Fort Hays State 1- 0 Fort Lewis 2- 0 Fort Valley State 1- 0 Franklin Pierce 1- 0 Glenville State 1- 0 Grand Canyon 2- 0 Grand Valley State 2- 0 Hawaii Pacific 1- 0 Humboldt State 1- 0 Huntingdon 1- 0 IUPU-Fort Wayne 1- 0 Jamestown 10- 0 Kennesaw State 1- 0 Lake Superior State 1- 0 Lees-McRae 1- 0 Lewis 1- 0 Lock Haven 1- 0 Lynn 1- 0 Mary 3- 0 Mayville State 15- 0 Merrimack 1- 0 Metro State 3- 0 Michigan Tech 6- 5 Minnesota, Crookston 9- 0 Minnesota-Morris 4- 0 Minot State 3- 0 MSU, Moorhead 21- 0 Montana State 1- 0 Montana State-Billings 4- 0 Morningside 28- 0 Nebraska-Kearney 4- 0 Norfolk State 1- 0 North Dakota State 21- 23 North Georgia 1- 0 Northern Colorado 30- 2 Northern Kentucky 1- 0 Northern Michigan 4- 0 Northern State 7- 2 Northwest Missouri State 2- 0 Oklahoma Panhandle State 1- 0 baseball, twice earning all-conference honors and being named to the NAIA District 12 team once. In the fall of 2000, he was inducted into the Mayville State Hall of Fame. In addition to leading the UND-Lake Region women’s basketball team to a three-year mark of 87-14, Roebuck also guided the Royal baseball team to 1985, 1986 and 1987 North Dakota state baseball championships. Roebuck was named baseball coach at North Dakota in 1990 and led the Sioux to a 99-61-1 record over four seasons. In 1993 he took UND to the Division II College World Series for the first time in school history. Roebuck resigned as baseball coach in July 1993 to concentrate solely on women’s basketball. Roebuck’s wife, Karolyn, works for the Grand Forks Public Schools system. They have one daughter, Cierra, who is a student assistant coach with the Sioux after playing the past two seasons. Oregon 0- 2 Pacific 0- 1 Pittsburg State 0- 1 Portland State 2- 1 Quincy 1- 0 Regis 3- 0 Rocky Mountain 1- 0 Rollins 1- 0 Saginaw Valley State 1- 0 St. Leo 1- 0 Saint Martin’s 1- 0 St. Scholastica 3- 0 Seattle 1- 0 Seattle Pacific 3- 0 Shippensburg 1- 0 South Dakota State 28- 14 Southern Colorado 2- 0 Southern Indiana 1- 0 Southwest Minnesota State 4- 2 Stonehill 1- 0 Texas A&M-Commerce 1- 0 Texas A&M-Kingsville 1- 0 Upper Iowa 1- 0 Valley City State 3- 0 Warner Pacific 1- 0 Wayne State, Neb. 1- 0 Western New Mexico 2- 0 Wisconsin-Parkside 1- 0
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Women’s <strong>Basketball</strong>, Page 7 February 29, 29, 20<strong>08</strong><br />
Roebuck All-Time at UND<br />
Overall Record: 554-91 (.859)<br />
Home: 299-30 (.909)<br />
Road: 212-53 (.800)<br />
Neutral: 43-8 (.843)<br />
NCC Record: 280-59 (.826)<br />
Home: 148-21 (.876)<br />
Road: 132-38 (.776)<br />
Non-Conference Record: 245-22 (.918)<br />
Home: 137-7 (.951)<br />
Road: 77-9 (.895)<br />
Neutral: 31-6 (.838)<br />
Postseason Record: 50-16 (.758)<br />
NCC Tournament: 16-0 (1.000)<br />
NCAA Regional: 25-11 (.694)<br />
Elite Eight: 11-4 (.733)<br />
Overtime Games: 8-5 (.615)<br />
One-Point Games: 7-5 (.583)<br />
Two-Point Games: 12-8 (.600)<br />
Three-Point Games: 14-10 (.583)<br />
UND went 150-27 over the next six<br />
years, winning three NCC titles and averaging<br />
a remarkable 25 wins per year. The<br />
two steps (compete against the best teams<br />
in the <strong>North</strong> Central Conference and win<br />
the NCC championships) <strong>of</strong> Roebuck’s<br />
plan were clearly accomplished and the<br />
groundwork was now in place for the program’s<br />
second watershed breakthrough.<br />
It came on March 9, 1997, at <strong>North</strong><br />
Dakota State in the championship game <strong>of</strong><br />
the NCAA Division II <strong>North</strong> Central<br />
Regional. The <strong>Sioux</strong> were in the NCAA<br />
Roebuck Versus Opponents<br />
Augustana 37- 10<br />
Minnesota Duluth 27- 2<br />
Minnesota State 41- 2<br />
Nebraska-Omaha 41- 2<br />
St. Cloud State 39- 7<br />
South Dakota 36- 9<br />
Adams State 1- 0<br />
Alaska-Fairbanks 3- 0<br />
American-Puerto Rico 1- 0<br />
Arizona 1- 0<br />
Arkansas Tech 1- 0<br />
Ashland 1- 0<br />
Barry 3- 0<br />
Bellarmine 1- 0<br />
Bentley 2- 0<br />
Bemidji State 15- 0<br />
Bethel 1- 0<br />
Bloomsburg 1- 0<br />
Brigham Young-Hawaii 1- 0<br />
Cal Poly Pomona 0- 2<br />
Cal State-Chico 2- 0<br />
Cal State-Stanislaus 3- 0<br />
Cameron 1- 0<br />
Central Oklahoma 1- 0<br />
College <strong>of</strong> the Ozarks 1- 0<br />
Colorado Mines 1- 0<br />
tournament for the eighth consecutive<br />
year, and if a national championship was<br />
to be won, what better place to take the<br />
step that had not been taken before than<br />
the Bison Sports Arena? If the <strong>Sioux</strong> wanted<br />
to be the best, they would have to beat<br />
the best. NDSU was the four-time defending<br />
national champions and had won 58<br />
straight games on its home court.<br />
Down 64-54 with six minutes to play,<br />
UND went on a nearly inconceivable 19-2<br />
run to close out the game, moving onto the<br />
Elite Eight and moving up to Roebuck’s<br />
final step, that being national champions.<br />
That happened the following weekend at<br />
the Elite Eight that was played in Grand<br />
Forks, where the 1997 <strong>Sioux</strong> won a national<br />
championship, but did so using the<br />
groundwork laid out by the teams <strong>of</strong> the<br />
early and mid-90s.<br />
The <strong>Sioux</strong> would win two more national<br />
titles in 1998 and 1999 and advance to<br />
the 2001 national championship game.<br />
Roebuck’s athletic success began at<br />
Velva (N.D.) High School, where he<br />
earned 12 letters in football, basketball and<br />
baseball. He would go on to play both<br />
baseball and basketball at Mayville State<br />
(N.D.), where he would earn a degree in<br />
physical education and business education<br />
in 1969. While at MSU, Roebuck was a<br />
four-year letterwinner and three-year<br />
starter in basketball. He also excelled in<br />
Colorado State-Pueblo 4- 0<br />
Columbus State 1- 0<br />
Concordia-St. Paul 3- 1<br />
Dakota State 4- 0<br />
Delta State 0- 1<br />
Denver 2- 0<br />
Dickinson State 3- 0<br />
Drury 0- 1<br />
Eckerd 1- 0<br />
Edinboro 1- 0<br />
Emporia State 2- 0<br />
Ferris State 1- 0<br />
Florida Atlantic 1- 0<br />
Florida Gulf Coast 0- 1<br />
Florida Southern 1- 0<br />
Florida Tech 1- 0<br />
Fort Hays State 1- 0<br />
Fort Lewis 2- 0<br />
Fort Valley State 1- 0<br />
Franklin Pierce 1- 0<br />
Glenville State 1- 0<br />
Grand Canyon 2- 0<br />
Grand Valley State 2- 0<br />
Hawaii Pacific 1- 0<br />
Humboldt State 1- 0<br />
Huntingdon 1- 0<br />
IUPU-Fort Wayne 1- 0<br />
Jamestown 10- 0<br />
Kennesaw State 1- 0<br />
Lake Superior State 1- 0<br />
Lees-McRae 1- 0<br />
Lewis 1- 0<br />
Lock Haven 1- 0<br />
Lynn 1- 0<br />
Mary 3- 0<br />
Mayville State 15- 0<br />
Merrimack 1- 0<br />
Metro State 3- 0<br />
Michigan Tech 6- 5<br />
Minnesota, Crookston 9- 0<br />
Minnesota-Morris 4- 0<br />
Minot State 3- 0<br />
MSU, Moorhead 21- 0<br />
Montana State 1- 0<br />
Montana State-Billings 4- 0<br />
Morningside 28- 0<br />
Nebraska-Kearney 4- 0<br />
Norfolk State 1- 0<br />
<strong>North</strong> Dakota State 21- 23<br />
<strong>North</strong> Georgia 1- 0<br />
<strong>North</strong>ern Colorado 30- 2<br />
<strong>North</strong>ern Kentucky 1- 0<br />
<strong>North</strong>ern Michigan 4- 0<br />
<strong>North</strong>ern State 7- 2<br />
<strong>North</strong>west Missouri State 2- 0<br />
Oklahoma Panhandle State 1- 0<br />
baseball, twice earning all-conference honors<br />
and being named to the NAIA District<br />
12 team once. In the fall <strong>of</strong> 2000, he was<br />
inducted into the Mayville State Hall <strong>of</strong><br />
Fame.<br />
In addition to leading the UND-Lake<br />
Region women’s basketball team to a<br />
three-year mark <strong>of</strong> 87-14, Roebuck also<br />
guided the Royal baseball team to 1985,<br />
1986 and 1987 <strong>North</strong> Dakota state baseball<br />
championships.<br />
Roebuck was named baseball coach at<br />
<strong>North</strong> Dakota in 1990 and led the <strong>Sioux</strong> to a<br />
99-61-1 record over four seasons. In 1993 he<br />
took UND to the Division II College World<br />
Series for the first time in school history.<br />
Roebuck resigned as baseball coach in July<br />
1993 to concentrate solely on women’s basketball.<br />
Roebuck’s wife, Karolyn, works for the<br />
Grand Forks Public Schools system. They<br />
have one daughter, Cierra, who is a student<br />
assistant coach with the <strong>Sioux</strong> after playing<br />
the past two seasons.<br />
Oregon 0- 2<br />
Pacific 0- 1<br />
Pittsburg State 0- 1<br />
Portland State 2- 1<br />
Quincy 1- 0<br />
Regis 3- 0<br />
Rocky Mountain 1- 0<br />
Rollins 1- 0<br />
Saginaw Valley State 1- 0<br />
St. Leo 1- 0<br />
Saint Martin’s 1- 0<br />
St. Scholastica 3- 0<br />
Seattle 1- 0<br />
Seattle Pacific 3- 0<br />
Shippensburg 1- 0<br />
South Dakota State 28- 14<br />
Southern Colorado 2- 0<br />
Southern Indiana 1- 0<br />
Southwest Minnesota State 4- 2<br />
Stonehill 1- 0<br />
Texas A&M-Commerce 1- 0<br />
Texas A&M-Kingsville 1- 0<br />
Upper Iowa 1- 0<br />
Valley City State 3- 0<br />
Warner Pacific 1- 0<br />
Wayne State, Neb. 1- 0<br />
Western New Mexico 2- 0<br />
Wisconsin-Parkside 1- 0
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