5 things you might've missed in UND's 26-23 OT loss at South Dakota

VERMILLION, S.D. — In a Top 10 FCS matchup, the UND football program overcame a 20-3 halftime deficit but lost in overtime 26-23 on Saturday in the DakotaDome. Here are five things you might've missed in the game. 1. Big holes UND's 17-0 deficit at the end of the first quarter has become a negative trend for the Fighting Hawks. UND trailed Northern Iowa 24-7 early in the second quarter earlier this season in a loss in Cedar Falls and even trailed Murray State 21-0 at the Alerus Center before coming back to blow out the Racers. "Early on in the game, once again not complementing each other," UND head coach Eric Schmidt said. "Turn the football over and just not doing enough on the defensive side to make it hard on them. I just felt like we were out of sorts in the first half, and it probably could have been down worse. To our guys' credit, they regrouped at halftime and found a way to get that thing to overtime." It was a stark contrast to last week where the Hawks le