Bison Hire Assistant to Help Transition: North Dakota State will enter its third year of a five-year process for becoming a Division I institution with a new assistant coach. Coach Tim Miles hired David Richman as assistant coach after Richman had been a graduate assistant in 2003-04. As a graduate assistant, Richman helped the Bison earner a collective GPA higher than 3.0. In its second season in D-I play, North Dakota State finished 16-12. [7/02/05]