What is the Most Popular Sport in North Dakota?

Sometimes it's easy to figure out the most popular sport in each state. Then sometimes it's not. We did some research and ran across this story, granted it is a couple years old but still, very intriguing.

SLATE came up with this list, and features the sport for each state. They called it United Sports of America. Let me share the criteria with you, and you'll notice it's not very scientific.

No two states can have the same sport. The most important rule of them all.
Sports can be atomized. An immediate exception to Rule No. 1. Some states prefer college football to pro, some prefer high school basketball to college. Allowing different states to own different flavors of the same sport reflects the reality of the American landscape.
Official state sports will be honored if possible. But it’s not always possible. South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming all chose rodeo as an official sport, but only one state can be America’s true rodeo king.

North Dakota - College Hockey-

Our choice: college hockey
Also considered: curling
People like curling here, but they're way, way more into UND ice hockey. And who can blame them, considering that the Ralph Engelstad Arena—known as the "Taj Mahal of Hockey"—features leather seats for each spectator. During the 2012–13 season, an average of 11,592 fans per game nestled into leather to watch the team formerly known as the Fighting Sioux. That figure led the nation, outpacing allegedly hockey-mad Minnesota by more than 1,500 fans per contest. The Gophers clearly need more comfortable seats.

Other states worth mentioning-