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Jacks resume league play vs. IPFW and Oakland
12/27/2011 4:42:00 PM | Men's Basketball
South Dakota State returns home this week for its first game in 10 days when the Jackrabbits resume Summit League play on Wednesday against IPFW and Friday against Oakland, both at 7 p.m., inside Frost Arena.
Winners of six of their last seven games, the Jackrabbits return to league play this week still riding the rush of a big win at Washington in their last game on Dec. 18, in Seattle, Wash.
The host Huskies scored less than 10 seconds into the game, but SDSU scored the next nine points and kept their foot on the gas for the rest of the game in a 92-73 win in front of 9,060 fans at Alaska Airlines Arena.
Nate Wolters led the Jackrabbits with a season-high 34 points, adding five rebounds, seven assists and no turnovers, as the Jackrabbits as a team turned the ball over a season-low five times.
Four other Jackrabbits also scored in double figures, led by Griffan Callahan with 16 points. Chad White finished with 12 points, all of which came from beyond the three-point line, Jordan Dykstra added 11 and Tony Fiegen 10 points in the win, which gives the Jacks a perfect 1-0 record all-time against Pac 12 teams.
RABBITS ON THE RADIO - Originated from the AM 570 WNAX studios in Yankton, S.D., SDSU men's basketball games can be heard on a total of five stations throughout South Dakota on the Jackrabbit Sports Network.
- 570 AM - WNAX - Yankton
- 910 AM - KJJQ "The Ranch" - Brookings
- 1060 AM - KGFX - Pierre
- 950 AM KWAT or 96.9 FM KDLO - Watertown
- 99.5 FM - KRKI - Rapid City
Pierre, S.D., native Tyler Merriam takes over the play-by-play duties in 2011-12, replacing six-time winner of the South Dakota Associated Press Sportscaster of the Year and 1998 National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association South Dakota Sportscaster of the Year, Steve Imming, who retired in the summer of 2011.
THE JACKRABBIT EXTRA ON GoJacks.com - Subscribers to the Jackrabbit Extra on GoJacks.com watch every Jackrabbit home game and select road games streaming live on the internet. That select list includes Saturday's game at Western Illinois. In addition, subscribers can listen to every game, home and on the road, streaming live on the internet.
To learn more about the Jackrabbit Extra, or to subscribe, log onto GoJacks.com and click on "SIGN UP NOW"
THE JACKRABBIT INSIDER ON FOX - Fans of South Dakota State Athletics can get a weekly behind-the-scenes look at all 21 Jackrabbit varsity sports teams by tuning into "The Jackrabbit Insider."
Hosted by Tyler Merriam, the show airs on Sundays on KTTW FOX 17 at 10:30 p.m., and can also be seen on Fox Sports North at 6 p.m. on Tuesdays.
JACKS RANKED IN MID-MAJOR TOP-25 - After receiving votes the past few weeks, South Dakota State cracked the collegeinsider.com Mid Major Top-25 for the first time this season last week at No. 25, and then moved up to No. 23 in the poll released on Dec. 26.
WOLTERS CLIMBS THE 1,000-POINT CLUB LADDER - Junior Nate Wolters became the 42nd member of the SDSU 1,000-Point Club in the Jacks win over Sam Houston State on Nov. 22, and instantly began the climb up the all time list. Wolters enters the week with 1,187 career points, good for 20th all-time at SDSU and 30 points shy of moving up to 19th on the list.
WOLTERS CHASES SCORING RECORD - Nate Wolters scored 907 points in his first two years as a Jackrabbit, including the SDSU sophomore record with 604 points. Double that two-year point total, and it does not appear that he entered his junior season on pace to break the all-time SDSU scoring record of 1,931 points, but if he averages 512 points per season over his last two years, the record, set by Mark Tetzlaff from 1981-85, would indeed fall.
NAGY NEEDS ONE MORE - Already the most prolific coach in SDSU history, head coach Scott Nagy entered the 2011-12 season with 289 wins, just 11 shy of reaching the 300-win milestone, which he could reach with a win tonight.
NAGY TEAMS WITH SAMARITANS FEET - Head coach Scott Nagy teamed up with Samaritan's Feet in each of the last three seasons to raise money and shoes for children around the world, including Haiti, and the cause really hits home for Nagy and his family, especially after a major earthquake shook the country on Jan. 12, 2010.
"My wife Jamie and I adopted our daughter Naika from Haiti, so we've seen first-hand the need for shoes there," Nagy said.
Nagy raised over $6,000 for the relief efforts in Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake, and then took it to another level last season, when the entire Jackrabbit coaching staff coached in their bare feet against IPFW on Jan. 22, to raise money for shoes and shelters in Zimbabwe.
Nagy makes it four years in a row this season when he coaches barefoot on Jan. 14, when the Jacks host UMKC in Frost Arena.
Jackrabbit fans can play their part again in 2012 by logging onto Go.Jacks.com and clicking on the banner at the top of the page to make a difference in a child's life.
THIS WEEK'S OPPONENTS
IPFW Mastodons (7-4, 1-1 Summit, 2-3 Away) - The Tony Jasick led Mastodons come to Brookings after a loss to Purdue in their last game on Dec. 20, but that loss snapped a five game winning streak, with two of those five games coming on the road at Nebraska Omaha and at UT-Martin.
A six-year member of the Mastodon staff, Jasick took over the IPFW program when former head coach Dane Fife accepted a job as an assistant Michigan State.
Frank Gaines leads the Mastodons with 20.3 points per game, and adds 5.5 rebounds per game. Trey McCorkle averages 14.5 points and leads the 'Dons with 7.3 rebounds per game. No other IPFW player averages in double figures, and Mario Hines ranks third on the team with 6.7 points per game. Jonny Marlin averages 5.3 points and 3.0 rebounds per game and leads the team with 57 assists.
The Series vs. IPFW - The Mastodons lead the all-time series 8-6 after the Jackrabbits won all three meetings last season, including both regular season meetings and an 85-75 win in the semifinals of The Summit League Championships on March 6, 2011
The Last Meeting: March 6, 2011, at Summit League Championships - Fifth seeded South Dakota State used an early 13-0 run to take the lead from No. 4 seed PFW in a quarterfinal matchup at The Summit League Championships in Sioux Falls, and then held off a late Mastodon assault to hang on for an 85-75 win in front of 6,436 fans at the Sioux Falls Arena.
Nate Wolters led the Jackrabbits with 30 points in the win, adding seven rebounds and five assists. Dale Moss scored a season-high 21 points and grabbed nine rebounds, while Clint Sargent finished with 14 points. Jordan Dykstra scored 10 points in his first-ever postseason game, and added five rebounds before fouling out with under a minute to play.
Frank Gaines led IPFW with 21 points and added a game-high 12 rebounds to complete the double-double. Ben Botts and Trey McCorkle both added 16 points and John Peckinpaugh 11 points in the loss.
Oakland Golden Grizzlies (8-6, 2-0 Summit, 3-3 Away) - The Golden Grizzlies, who play at North Dakota State on Wednesday, return to Summit League play riding a two-game losing streak, with losses at Arizona on Dec. 20 and at home against Western Michigan.
The two game skid marks the third such streak for OU, who rattled-off six straight wins after opening the season with losses at Alabama and at Arkansas. The six game winning streak includes a pair of league wins over South Dakota and UMKC.
Reggie Hamilton leads the Oakland offense with 23 points per game and with 63 assists. He also adds 3.5 rebounds per game. Travis Bader averages 13.8 points and 3.2 rebounds per game. Drew Valentine scores 12.4 points per game and leads the Golden Grizzlies with 7.7 rebounds per game. Laval Lucas-Perry adds 11.9 points per game and Corey Petros 9.9 points per game.
The Series vs. Oakland - The Golden Grizzlies lead the all-time series 9-1 after sweeping the season series in 2010-11 and after downing the Jackrabbits in the semifinals of The Summit League Championships.
The lone SDSU win in the series came on Jan. 31, 2009, when the Jackrabbits erased a 17-point second half deficit to come back and win the game in overtime by the score of 74-68.
The Last Meeting: March 7, 2011, at Summit League Championships - South Dakota State's run in The Summit League Championships came to an abrupt end with a 110-90 loss to top-seed Oakland in the semifinals in front of 5,676 mostly Jackrabbit fans at the Sioux Falls Arena.
Nate Wolters led the Jackrabbits with 23 points and seven assists, Chad White scored 21 points off the bench and Jordan Dykstra added 19 points and seven rebounds in a reserve role to help the SDSU bench outscore the Oakland bench 44-20. Clint Sargent added 13 points in his final game as a Jackrabbit to round out the Jacks double figure scorers.
All five Golden Grizzlies starters finished in double figures, led by Drew Valentine and his game-high 24 points. He also finished with a game-high 11 rebounds to complete the game's only double-double. Reggie Hamilton battled through some early foul trouble to score 20 points and dish out a game-high eight assists. Keith Benson added 18 points and eight rebounds, Travis Bader scored 16 points, including a 4-of-7 effort from three-point range, while Will Hudson scored 12 points.
NEXT UP FOR THE JACKRABBITS - The Jackrabbits return to the road next week to play at Oral Roberts and Southern Utah for the final time in league play, as the Golden Eagles move to the Southland Conference next season and Southern Utah moves to the Big Sky Conference.
The Jacks and Thunderbirds get started from Cedar City, Utah at 7 p.m. MT, while the Jacks and Golden Eagles tipoff from Tulsa, Okla., at 7 p.m.
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