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South Dakota State University Athletics
SDSU women return home to face Middle Tennessee
12/10/2009 5:00:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Two NCAA Tournament teams a season ago square off Sunday afternoon as South Dakota State hosts Middle Tennessee State in women's basketball action.
Tipoff is slated for noon at Frost Arena on the SDSU campus.
The game is designated as the inaugural Special Olympics game as autographed Jackrabbit jerseys will be raffled off after the contest. Raffle tickets can be purchased in advance at the Brookings Police Department and the Special Olympics South Dakota office in Sioux Falls, or online at www.firstgiving.com/jacksjerseys and www.sosd.org. Raffle tickets also will be available at Frost Arena on Sunday. Fans need not be present to win.
SDSU returns to its home court with a 4-4 overall record after sweeping a road series at Western Illinois and IUPUI Dec. 5 and 7 to open Summit League play.
Middle Tennessee enters the matchup with a 4-3 overall record following a 94-84 victory at last season's national runner-up Louisville (Ky.). The Blue Raiders came into the week receiving votes in the Associated Press poll after being ranked 24th in the preseason poll.
Both teams have played challenging non-conference schedules during the first month of the season. Five of SDSU's six non-conference games have come against teams that reached the postseason - either the NCAA Tournament or Women's NIT - last season. Starting with Sunday's game, three of the Jackrabbits' next four games are against posteason qualifiers.
All of the Blue Raiders' losses have been to teams currently ranked in the top 10 of either the AP or ESPN/USA Today coaches' poll: No. 4/3 Tennessee, No. 5/12 Louisiana State and No. 8/8 Xavier (Ohio).
Middle Tennessee, which returns all five starters from last season's 28-6 squad, features returning national scoring leader Alysha Clark, who averaged 27.5 points per game. A 5-foot-10 forward, Clark ranks in the top 10 nationally again this season in both scoring and rebounding with respective averages of 23.4 points and 12.4 rebounds per game, while shooting 60.6 percent from the field.
A LOOK AHEAD: The Jackrabbits continue non-conference action with road games Dec. 19 at Utah and Dec. 22 at Iowa. The Iowa game is scheduled to be televised on the Big Ten Network, starting at 7 p.m.
SDSU's next home game is scheduled for Dec. 28, when the Jackrabbits host Northern Iowa in a 7 p.m. matchup at Frost Arena.
Tipoff is slated for noon at Frost Arena on the SDSU campus.
The game is designated as the inaugural Special Olympics game as autographed Jackrabbit jerseys will be raffled off after the contest. Raffle tickets can be purchased in advance at the Brookings Police Department and the Special Olympics South Dakota office in Sioux Falls, or online at www.firstgiving.com/jacksjerseys and www.sosd.org. Raffle tickets also will be available at Frost Arena on Sunday. Fans need not be present to win.
SDSU returns to its home court with a 4-4 overall record after sweeping a road series at Western Illinois and IUPUI Dec. 5 and 7 to open Summit League play.
Middle Tennessee enters the matchup with a 4-3 overall record following a 94-84 victory at last season's national runner-up Louisville (Ky.). The Blue Raiders came into the week receiving votes in the Associated Press poll after being ranked 24th in the preseason poll.
Both teams have played challenging non-conference schedules during the first month of the season. Five of SDSU's six non-conference games have come against teams that reached the postseason - either the NCAA Tournament or Women's NIT - last season. Starting with Sunday's game, three of the Jackrabbits' next four games are against posteason qualifiers.
All of the Blue Raiders' losses have been to teams currently ranked in the top 10 of either the AP or ESPN/USA Today coaches' poll: No. 4/3 Tennessee, No. 5/12 Louisiana State and No. 8/8 Xavier (Ohio).
Middle Tennessee, which returns all five starters from last season's 28-6 squad, features returning national scoring leader Alysha Clark, who averaged 27.5 points per game. A 5-foot-10 forward, Clark ranks in the top 10 nationally again this season in both scoring and rebounding with respective averages of 23.4 points and 12.4 rebounds per game, while shooting 60.6 percent from the field.
THE SERIES: Sunday's game marks the fourth meeting in women's basketball between South Dakota State and Middle Tennessee State.
The series has been an unusual one in that the home team has not won any of the three previous meetings. The Jackrabbits grabbed a 2-1 series advantage with a 72-61 victory in Murfreesboro, Tenn., in their 2006-07 season opener on Nov. 13, 2006.
SDSU won the inaugural meeting, 58-56, during the 2004-05 season, before the Blue Raiders returned the favor with 79-72 victory at Frost Arena on Dec. 2, 2005.
Middle Tennessee is the second Sun Belt Conference opponent for the Jackrabbits this season. SDSU dropped an 81-74 decision to Western Kentucky on Nov. 22 at Frost Arena.
SDSU has posted a 4-4 against Sun Belt opposition since moving to the Division I ranks at the start of the 2004-05 season.
JACKRABBITS ONLINE: Audio and video coverage of Sunday's game is scheduled to be available via subscription service at GoJacks.com, the official website of SDSU athletics. Monthly subscriptions for the Jackrabbit Extra, which includes live audio and video streaming of most Jackrabbit basketball games, are available for $9.95 per month or $79.95 on a limited-time basis for an entire year of coverage. An audio-only subscription also is available for $4.95 per month, with programming consisting only of live radio broadcasts.
Local radio coverage begins at 11:30 a.m. Central Time on the Jackrabbit Radio Network, with Tyler Merriam calling the play-by-play. Brookings-based KJJQ 910 AM will serve as the flagship station of the network, with coverage of Sunday's game also available on WNAX 570 AM of Yankton, and KGFX 1060 AM in Pierre.
LAST WEEK: The Jackrabbits opened Summit League play on the right foot, sweeping a road series at Western Illinois and IUPUI.
SDSU 74, Western Illinois 53
The Jackrabbits shot 61 percent in the second half and employed a balanced scoring attack to pull away from Western Illinois for a 74-53 victory in the Summit League opener for both teams Dec. 5 in Macomb, Ill.
The defending Summit League champion Jackrabbits improved to 3-4 overall. WIU dropped to 2-5 on the season.
SDSU led wire to wire, opening the scoring on a three-pointer by Kristin Rotert. The Jackrabbits extended the lead to 15-4 seven and a half minutes into the game after a basket by Maria Boever.
The Fighting Leathernecks responded with a 9-2 run to get to within four, but SDSU quickly built the lead back to double digits on three-pointers by Pierre freshmen Katie Lingle and Steph Paluch.
SDSU took the momentum into halftime as Jill Young beat the first-half buzzer with a layup. However, Young missed the free throw to complete the three-point play, keeping the score 31-24 at intermission.
In the second half, the Jackrabbits put the game away early with a 17-6 spurt in the first five minutes of the stanza. The SDSU lead grew to 22, 60-38, on a Ketty Cornemann three pointer with 7:40 to play and the Jackrabbits built their largest lead of the night, 26 points, in the closing minutes.
Boever and Cornemann each tallied 14 points to lead the Jackrabbits, with Rotert contributing 13. SDSU's two other starters, Young and Macie Michelson, each scored eight points.
SDSU finished the game 26-of-51 from the field, 51 percent, including 9-of-17 from three-point range. The Jackrabbits converted 13-of-18 free throws, 72.2 percent.
Boever pulled down a team-high six rebounds to pace the Jackrabbits 36-32 rebounding advantage.
Erica Lewis posted game highs of 17 points and seven rebounds to lead Western Illinois. The Fighting Leathernecks made only 17-of-53 shots from the floor, 32.1 percent, including 3-of-13 from behind the arc. WIU fared better at the line, making 16-of-22 attempts, 72.7 percent.
Each team committed 24 turnovers in the game.
SDSU 85, IUPUI 77
Ketty Cornemann established season highs with 18 points and nine rebounds and Maria Boever tallied 14 points to cross the 1,000-point mark for her career to lead South Dakota State to an 85-77 victory over IUPUI Dec. 7 in Indianapolis.
The Jackrabbits evened their overall record at 4-4, improving to 2-0 in league play. IUPUI dropped to 1-8 overall, 0-2 in The Summit League.
The two teams traded early leads as IUPUI held as much as a four-point lead on a couple of occasions after the Jackrabbits built an early 13-7 advantage.
Boever's basket with 3 minutes and 9 seconds remaining in the first half not only gave the Jackrabbits the lead for good at 30-28, but put her over the 1,000-point mark as she became the 27th player in SDSU women's basketball history to reach the milestone.
SDSU opened a double-digit lead with a quick 5-0 spurt in the opening minute of the second half. Boever scored on a layup on the opening possession and Jill Young followed with a three-pointer on the Jackrabbits' next trip down the floor.
IUPUI would not go away, however, pulling to within two on a pair of occasions, the last at 50-48 with 15:39 remaining on a three-pointer by Gretchen Gaskin.
The Jackrabbits methodically began to pull away again from IUPUI down the stretch, going up by 10, 70-60, on a basket by Cornemann with under eight minutes to play. SDSU built its largest lead of the night, 81-65, on a Kristin Rotert jumper with less than four minutes to play, but the Jaguars put together one last run to trim the deficit to eight before the final horn.
Both teams were efficient offensively as each squad shot at least 50 percent from the field and set a season high for points.
SDSU finished the night an even 50 percent from the field, 31-of-62, including 6-of-13 from three-point range. The Jackrabbits converted 17-of-28 attempts from the free throw line, 60.7 percent.
The Jaguars ended the game 28-of-54 from the floor, 28-of-54, including 6-for-12 from long range. At the line, IUPUI made 15-of-25 attempts, 60 percent.
IUPUI reserves accounted for 46 of the team's 77 points, led by a game-high 22 points from Jessica Huffman. Julia Whitted, a preseason all-league selection who has been hampered by an injury in the early going, added 12 points and seven rebounds for the Jaguars. Briannica Tye was the lone starter in double figures for IUPUI with 18 points.
The Jackrabbit bench also was productive as Jennie Sunnarborg (13 points), Katie Lingle (9) and Cala Westergard (7) all set career scoring highs.
Young was the fourth SDSU player to reach double figures, scoring 11 as she sank three three-pointers.
Rebounding helped key the Jackrabbit victory as SDSU dominated the boards by a 42-26 margin, grabbing 14 on the offensive end. The Jackrabbits also committed a season-low 14 turnovers.
SUMMIT LEAGUE DOMINANCE: South Dakota State has built an impressive Summit League résumé as it plays its third season in the 10-team conference.
In its two-plus seasons as a league member, the Jackrabbits have compiled a 35-3 record in Summit League regular season games en route to consecutive outright league titles with records of 16-2 in 2007-08 and 17-1 during the 2008-09 season. SDSU has gone a perfect 18-0 at home and has won at least one game on every other Summit League member's home court.
SDSU also is 3-0 in Summit League postseason tournament games after winning the 2009 championship in its first year of eligibility. The Summit League Championship returns to Sioux Falls March 6-9, 2010.
PRESEASON FAVORITES: The South Dakota State University women's basketball team is a near-unanimous pick to repeat as Summit League champions, as selected by the annual preseason poll of league coaches, sports information directors and media, which was released in October.
The Jackrabbits, who return four starters, received 25 of the 27 first-place votes to tally 419 points. Oakland University (Mich.), which lost to SDSU in the Summit League Championship last season, earned one first-place vote and finished second in the poll with 365 points. North Dakota State was third with 318 points, while Oral Roberts (Okla.) picked up the other first-place vote to finish fourth with 289 points.
The Summit League opens its 18-game, double round-robin schedule Dec. 5. The Summit League Championship returns to the Sioux Falls Arena March 6-9.
PRESEASON HONORS: Although South Dakota State does not have a player on the preseason all-Summit League First Team, four Jackrabbit players received preseason accolades by being named to the all-league second team: senior forwards Maria Boever and Ketty Cornemann, junior guard/forward Kristin Rotert and sophomore guard Jill Young.
Boever, a 6-foot-1 senior forward from Worthington, Minn., earned honorable mention all-Summit League honors last season after averaging 10.0 points and 6.0 rebounds per game. She scored in double figures 14 times and added a pair of double-digit rebounding performances.
A 5-11 senior forward, Cornemann earned all-Summit League second-team recognition during the 2008-09 season. One of only two Jackrabbits to start all 35 games, she reached double figures 13 times en route to averaging 8.2 points and 3.1 rebounds per game.
Rotert, a 6-foot junior wing, was another honorable mention all-league performer after averaging 10.1 points and 3.0 rebounds per game. She ranked second on the team with 60 three-pointers and had the tendency to rise to the occasion in big games, posting double figures for scoring 17 times.
Young, a 5-7 sophomore guard, earned Summit League Sixth Woman of the Year honors and a spot on the Summit League All-Newcomer Team after ranking second on the team in scoring at 10.2 points per game. The Mitchell native established a Jackrabbit freshman record with 82 three-pointers.
UMKC guard Chazny Morris was named the Preseason Player of the Year. She was joined on the first team by North Dakota State guard Inger Hodgson, IPFW guard Chelsey Jackson, Oakland guard Melissa Jeltema, Oral Roberts guard/forward Janae Voelker and IUPUI center Julia Whitted.
DIFFICULT SCHEDULE: The Jackrabbit women's basketball team is playing a difficult slate of non-conference games this season.
Of SDSU's first nine non-conference games, eight are against an opponent that played in the postseason a year ago. Seven of those games are against fellow NCAA Tournament teams as the Jackrabbits met Virginia in the second round of the Junkanoo Jam in the Bahamas.
Two of SDSU's opponents are currently ranked in the top 25 of either the Associated Press or ESPN/USA Today preseason poll: Arizona State (14/14) and Virginia (19/19). Two other opponents - Middle Tennessee State and Gonzaga - are receiving votes in this week's polls.
YOUTHFUL BENCH: While the Jackrabbits return four of their five regular starters from a year ago, SDSU will rely on a number of underclassmen to fill reserve roles this season.
Of the 15 players on the roster, five are true freshmen, one is a redshirt freshman, threeare sophomores, three are juniors and three are seniors.
With reiging Summit League Sixth Woman of the Year Jill Young, settling into a starting role, the next top returning scorer off the bench is sophomore Jennie Sunnarborg, who averaged 3.3 points per game during the 2008-09 campaign, but has upped her scoring output to 6.3 points per game so far this season.
The Jackrabbits will look for an expanded role for sophomore guard Vanessa Johnson, who missed nearly half the 2008-09 season due to injury. Johnson averaged only 0.6 points per game during the 2008-09 season, but provids the Jackrabbits with another perimeter shooting threat.
Other returning bench players include senior point guard Alison Anderson and junior forward Jennifer Schuttloffel.
Of the six players in the freshman class, four are from the state of South Dakota. Ashley Eide (Sioux Falls), Tara Heiser (Watertown) and Steph Paluch (Pierre) will fill guard slots, while Katie Lingle (Pierre) will back up in the post. Heiser is expected to redshirt this season.
Rounding out the freshman class are Jordan, Minn., native Leah Dietel at forward and redshirt freshman post player Cala Westergard. A native of Charles City, Iowa, Westergard played in her first official game since her junior year of high school in the Nov. 15 matchup at Arizona State. Westergard missed her senior year of high school due to injury.
Despite its youth, the Jackrabbit reserves have outscored their counterparts in five of the eight games this season.
DEPTH AND BALANCE: The Jackrabbits have had at least two players score in double figures in all eight games so far this season, and eight different players have tallied double digits for scoring.
Senior forward Maria Boever has led or shared top-scoring honors five times this season, including a season-high 21 points in the season opener against Gonzaga.
A list of double-figure scoring games follows:
Gonzaga • Maria Boever (21), Jill Young (15), Leah Dietel (12), Ketty Cornemann (10)
Arizona State • Kristin Rotert (14), Jennie Sunnarborg (11)
Illinois State • Boever (17), Rotert (15), Sunnarborg (12), Macie Michelson (10)
Western Kentucky • Rotert (16), Michelson (13), Boever (11), Cornemann (10)
Charlotte • Boever (18), Rotert (13), Young (10)
Virginia • Boever (14), Steph Paluch (14), Rotert (14)
Western Illinois • Boever (14), Cornemann (14), Rotert (13)
IUPUI • Cornemann (18), Boever (14), Sunnarborg (13), Young (11)
100 D-I WINS: Since moving up to the NCAA Division I ranks at the start of the 2004-05 season, the Jackrabbits have posted a winning record against D-I opponents. In its first five seasons competing at the Division I level, SDSU has compiled a 106-36 mark (.747 winning percentage) versus D-I opposition. The Jackrabbits have posted victories over 50 different Division I teams representing 18 conferences plus independents.
750 WINS: The Jackrabbits' victory over Oakland in the 2009 Summit League championship game was the 750th in the women's basketball program's history. Since the modern era of women's basketball at South Dakota State University began with a 6-0 mark during the 1966-67 season, the Jacks have gone on to compile an overall record of 755-334 (.693 winning percentage).
SDSU has a streak of 23 consecutive winning seasons.The Jackrabbits' last losing season was an 11-16 campaign during the 1985-86 season.
OPENING SUCCESS: The Jackrabbits' 75-71 overtime victory against Gonzaga in the 2009-10 season opener on Nov. 13 marked the 17th consecutive season SDSU opened with a win.
The last time the Jackrabbits lost a season opener was during the 1992-93 season, when they fell 74-72 to Moorhead State (Minn.).
TOUGH AT HOME: SDSU's loss to Western Kentucky on Nov. 22, was a rarity during the Aaron Johnston era. In his tenure as Jackrabbit head coach, Johnston has led the Jackrabbits to a 117-13 record (.900 winning percentage) at Frost Arena, including winning 55 of their last 59 home games, putting together winning streaks of 15, 15 and 22 in the process.
Since the start of the 2001-02 season, SDSU has a 107-8 home record, losing just one game at Frost Arena each full season before capping the 2008-09 regular season with a 14-0 record - a mark that stands as the first undefeated home season in school history. The loss to Western Kentucky snapped a 35-game regular season home winning streak, as well as a 15-game overall winning streak that began after the Jackrabbits lost to Creighton (Neb.) in the opening round of the 2008 Women's NIT.
SDSU is undefeated at home in Summit League play, posting an 18-0 record at Frost Arena since joining the league in 2007-08. The Jackrabbits have won their home conference games by an average of 26.7 points.
FINDING THE RIGHT COMBINATION: Despite returning four regular starters from last year's squad, the Jackrabbit women's basketball team has shaken up the starting lineup this season. Through the first eight games, SDSU has used three different starting lineups, with seven players cracking the starting five. Maria Boever, Macie Michelson and Kristin Rotert have started all eight games so far this season
Gonzaga • Cornemann, Sunnarborg, Boever, Michelson, Rotert
Arizona State • Cornemann, Sunnarborg, Boever, Michelson, Rotert
Illinois State • Dietel, Boever, Michelson, Young, Rotert
Western Kentucky • Dietel, Boever, Michelson, Young, Rotert
Charlotte • Dietel, Boever, Michelson, Young, Rotert
Virginia • Dietel, Boever, Michelson, Young, Rotert
Western Illinois • Cornemann, Boever, Michelson, Young, Rotert
IUPUI • Cornemann, Boever, Michelson, Young, Rotert
BOEVER TOPS 1,000: South Dakota State senior forward Maria Boever became the 27th member of the Jackrabbit 1,000-Point Club, accomplishing the feat Dec. 7 at IUPUI.
With 14 points in the game, Boever upped her career total to 1,010 points in 99 career games as she moved past Sarita DeBoer (1,003 points from 2002-05) for 26th place.
A senior from Worthington, Minn., Boever finished as the team's second-leading scorer during her sophomore season in 2007-08 with an average of 12.2 points per game, then ranked fourth last year on a balanced Jackrabbit team with 10 points per game.
Two other Jackrabbit players could reach the 1,000-point plateau later this season: senior Ketty Cornemann and junior Kristin Rotert. Cornemann has tallied 759 career points, while Rotert has 736 career points.
100 GAMES: Jackrabbit seniors and three-year starters Maria Boever and Ketty Cornemann are expected to play in their 100th career game in Sunday's matchup against Middle Tennessee State.
During their three-plus seasons with the Jackrabbits, SDSU has posted a combined record of 84-20.
SDSU's third member of the senior class, Alison Anderson, has played in 92 games in a Jackrabbit uniform.
CORNEMANN RESPONDS: After coming off the bench in the four previous games, Ketty Cornmenann marked her return to the starting lineup with back-to-back strong performances to kick off Summit League action.
A senior from Yankton, Cornemann averaged 16 points and five rebounds in games at Western Illinois and IUPUI, shooting 66.7 percent (4-of-6) from three-point range. She posted season highs of 18 points and nine rebounds in the win at IUPUI on Dec. 7.
DOUBLE DUTY: Maria Boever has posted a pair of double-doubles for points and rebounds while leading the team in both categories - 15.2 ppg and 7.8 rpg - through the first six games.
Boever opened the season with 21 points and 11 rebounds in the season-opening overtime victory over Gonzaga, then added 11 points and 10 boards in a home loss to Western Kentucky.
YOUNG FOR 3: Sophomore guard Jill Young will attempt to build on a strong showing from behind the three-point arc during her first season in a Jackrabbit uniform.
The Mitchell native ranked third among NCAA Division I players during the 2008-09 season by shooting at a 46.1 percent (82-of-178) clip from three-point range. Young's 82 made three-pointers also set a Jackrabbit freshman record, eclipsing the mark of 58 set by Kristin Rotert during the 2007-08 campaign.
Young comes into Sunday's matchup against Middle Tennessee State with 99 career three-pointers. She has made at least one three-pointer in every game this season and is currently shooting 38.6 percent from behind the arc, making 17-of-44 attempts.
ROTERT CRACKS TOP 10: Junior wing Kristin Rotert joined the Jackrabbit career top 10 for three-pointers made last week at the Junkanoo Jam.
The Salem native shares the team lead with 17 three-pointers so far this season and upped her career total to 135 with three three-pointers in the Dec. 5 victory at Western Illinois. Rotert stands seven three-pointers behind Rachel Halsrud (142 three-pointers form 1991-94) for ninth place.
Rotert set a then-freshman record with 58 three-pointers during the 2007-08 season and ranked second on the team with 60 treys last season.
THREE-POINT BARRAGE: As a team, the Jackrabbits ranked fifth among Division I women's basketball teams by making an average of 8.5 three-pointers per game last season.
SDSU tied school and NCAA Tournament single-game records with 16 trifectas in its opening-round win over Texas Christian. The Jackrabbits made 10 or more three-pointers in a game nine times.
The Jackrabbits' 291 three-pointers as a team set a new single-season school record, breaking the mark of 288 set by the 2001-02 squad, which was the first Jackrabbit team to qualify for the NCAA Division II Elite Eight.
Through eight games this season, the Jackrabbits have made 61 three-pointers, an average of 7.63 per game, while shooting a Summit League-best 38.1 percent (61-of-160) from beyond the arc. SDSU's opponents are 30-of-86 from behind the arc, 34.9 percent.
LINGLE STEPS UP: Freshman post player Katie Lingle made an immediate impact on the Jackrabbit front line as she saw her first action of the season in the opening weekend of Summit League play.
In her collegiate debut, Dec. 5 at Western Illinois, Lingle scored five points and grabbed three rebounds. She sank a three-pointer, while adding an assist, blocked shot and steal in 13 minutes of action.
Two nights later, at IUPUI, the Pierre native recorded nine points and five rebounds in 10 minutes of court time.
PALUCH PRODUCES: Freshman guard Steph Paluch provided instant offense for the Jackrabbits in their Nov. 27 matchup with Virginia at the Junkanoo Jam.
A Pierre native, Paluch was 5-for-8 from the field, including a perfect 3-for-3 from three-point range, en route to 14 points in only 14 minutes of action against the nationally ranked Cavaliers. She also recorded one assist in the game.
BATTLE OF THE BOARDS: The Jackrabbit women's basketball team had its streak of winning 36 consecutive games in which it has held a rebounding advantage end in the 81-74 loss Nov. 22 to Western Kentucky. SDSU won the last 10 games of the 2007-08 season, all 25 during the 2008-09 season and the first game of the 2009-10 season in which it held an edge on the boards.
Previously, the last time SDSU lost a game it won the battle of the boards was a 67-60 defeat at Western Illinois on Jan. 14, 2008.
COACH AARON JOHNSTON: Entering his 10th season as head coach of the South Dakota State University women's basketball team, Aaron Johnston has taken the Jackrabbit program to the top of NCAA Division II and is leading SDSU to national prominence at the Division I level.
Johnston currently has compiled a career record of 229-69 (.768 winning percentage), ranking second on the SDSU career victories list behind his predecessor, Nancy Neiber, who compiled a 301-140 record in 16 seasons from 1985-2000. Johnston posted his 200th career victory on Dec. 4, 2008, when the Jackrabbits defeated Centenary (La.) His career totals have included a 35-3 record (.921 winning percentage) in Summit League regular season games and a 16-5 mark (.762 winning percentage) in postseason games.
A LOOK AHEAD: The Jackrabbits continue non-conference action with road games Dec. 19 at Utah and Dec. 22 at Iowa. The Iowa game is scheduled to be televised on the Big Ten Network, starting at 7 p.m.
SDSU's next home game is scheduled for Dec. 28, when the Jackrabbits host Northern Iowa in a 7 p.m. matchup at Frost Arena.
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