The 2001 North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team represented University of North Dakota in the 2001 NCAA Division II football season. The Fighting Sioux won the NCAA Division II national championship, the team's first. Their head coach was Dale Lennon, a former fullback for the school. The team's quarterback was junior , who threw thirty-two touchdowns and seven interceptions. The leading rusher was , who rushed for almost eight-hundred yards and seven touchdowns. Three receivers had at least eight touchdowns; had ten, had nine, and had eight. Mac Schneider, an American attorney and politician running to represent North Dakota’s at-large congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives, was a starting offensive lineman for the team and served as team captain his senior year