Kory Brown

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First off what a weekend for the NDSU Spring teams. The men’s and women’s track teams continued their downright dominance of the Summit League, women make it 5 straight, men 4 out of 5. More impressive perhaps that the home fans got to watch these teams perform this weekend, they travel so much so to win this in Fargo has to be extra gratifying. Congrats also in order to Darren Mueller and his softball team, pushed to the limit in a winner-take-all game, junior Whitney Johnson came thru with a terrific performance and the Bison won a 4th straight Summit title. We’ll find out tonight who and where they’ll play (9pm ESPNU).

Now onto the newest member of the Bison men’s basketball team, Kory Brown from El. Brown is 6’4, a two-time conference MVP that averaged 16 points and 8 rebounds a game last year. Elgin head coach Mike Sitter told me today biggest reason why Brown was still available college coaches don’t know what position he’ll play.Sitter said coaches were not sure if he can play guard at the next level. Sitter was convinced that Brown is a impact player, he shot 60% from the field, 33% from 3. The most impressive stat that Sitter told me was that “when Kory steps on campus he’ll be the best defender there.” Music to Saul Phillips ears. Brown had offers from SDSU and Western Illinois, Sitter told me Brown was pleasantly surprised on his trip to Fargo, he’s 3rd member of 2012 class joining Brett VandenBergh from DePere an Dexter Werner from Bismarck. NDSU was the first school to offer Brown, Sitter will join me on Dizzo’s Den tomorrow at 6:45(970 WDAY)

9 thoughts on “Kory Brown”

  1. I got to watch Bison softball this weekend. I saw them play Friday afternoon and twice on Saturday. Their bats were pretty quiet the first two games but they exploded in the championship game. Bison looked bad in the first game Saturday and looked unbeatable in the second. They threatened to score in every inning of that game.

    I got to meet the grandfather of the third baseman (Grable), who is from California. He flew in from CA to see her play this weekend. I asked him how she ended up at NDSU. Darren met her maybe at one of her touraments and invited her to come to Fargo. It sounded like her Dad said she should go to Fargo and see what it was the city and school were like and she fell in love with both and committed to come here. The grandfather told me that he was impressed by all the Bison alums that he has met at California and Arizona touraments this year.

  2. I hope Kory Brown has a great career for the Bison but he sounds pretty much like a carbon copy of Dylan Hale. Gotta love good defenders though, they should never have an off night unless its due to lack of effort. With the man-to-man D that Saul loves so much they need more good individual defenders.

    • Kory Brown is a 6-4 forward. Hale is a 6-1 guard. Apples to oranges. I think Brown is a 2 or 3 hybrid player

      • That’s the problem. Even in the Summit 6’4″ is a very small 3. I guess with all the teams in the conference that start 3 guards its probably not a huge deal but he’ll have to really muscle up if they’re expecting him to get minutes at the 3 regularly against the better competition that NDSU will see.

  3. Guards, guards, guards. We need a 6’10″ strong post player. Play defense, get some rebounds, plug up the middle. I was sure hoping there would be a junior college transfer out there somewher.

    • Those guys don’t just grow on trees. Good 6’4″-6’7″ guys are commonplace among the caliber of recruits that mid majors like NDSU can get. It’s very rare that a 6’10″ player with real ability, like a Keith Benson, finds his way to a Summit League school unless he’s an academic risk or he’s a transfer from one of the big boys. Those guys are snatched up pretty quickly by the high majors out of high school or JUCO.

  4. Really good 6-10 guys play in BCS conferences, great 6-10 guys skip college and go straight to the NBA. Bison have to make it work with solid 6-7 or 6-8 post players that is how it is being a mid-major. It will be interesting to see how Dexter Werner at 6-6 matches up in the Summit League. He must be decent the Jacks were after him before the Bison were. Apparently he played great in AAU ball. Good Luck Dexter. I was sad to hear about Chris Carlson. I remember watching him play against Fargo Suth in the North Dakota State basketball tourney in 1989. Dickinson would have upset the favored Bruins without the late game heroics of Chris Gardner. Carlson was a super athlete. Go Bison!