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South Dakota State University Athletics
Jacks return home to host SMSU
12/6/2011 4:11:00 PM | Men's Basketball
The Jackrabbits return home from an eight game road trip to host the next three games at home, starting Tuesday against Southwest Minnesota State at 7 p.m.
The Jackrabbits went 5-3 on the season-long eight game road trip, with all three losses coming against power conference foes Minnesota, Georgia and Nebraska. The trip also included a perfect 3-0 mark at the CBE Classic Macon Subregional and a perfect 2-0 mark to start Summit League play.
SDSU opened league play on Thursday with a 97-93 overtime win at IUPUI, the Jacks first-ever road win against the Jaguars. Nate Wolters led all-scorers with 32 points in the win, adding a season-high eight rebounds and eight assists. Griffan Callahan scored 20 points and tied a career-high with 10 rebounds for his second-career double-double. Jordan Dykstra, seeing his first significant action in four games, scored 15 points off the bench.
The game featured 12 ties and four lead changes, two of which came in overtime, before a Callahan put-back put the Jacks up for good at 95-93 with 39 seconds left in overtime.
The Jacks played Western Illinois on Saturday in the second league game of the season, and even though it did not go to overtime, the game did see plenty of excitement before the buzzer sounded with a 67-66 Jackrabbit win.
The Jackrabbits and Fighting Leathernecks played to nine ties and 16 lead changes in the game, with seven ties and three lead changes in the first half. Each team led by as many as four points in a back-and-forth battle in the second half, before the Jacks went up for good at 59-58 on a Chad White put back with two and a half minutes left to play.
Wolters tied for game-high honors with 17 points, adding seven rebounds and seven assists in the win. White finished the game with 12 points off the bench, as did Zach Horstman. Dykstra added 11 points off the bench, as the Jackrabbits got 41 points from their reserves, compared to 19 from the home team.
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 RECEIVING VOTES MID-MAJOR TOP-25 - South Dakota State received three votes in the most recent collegesinsider.com Mid-Major Top-25 poll released on Dec. 3. The Other Summit League teams in the poll include Oakland at No. 18, with North Dakota State and Oral Roberts also receiving votes.
WOLTERS JOINS THE 1,000-POINT CLUB - Junior Nate Wolters set the sophomore scoring record last season with 604 points. Add that to his 303 points as a freshman, and the standout point guard entered the 2011-12 season needing just 97 points to become the 42nd member of the SDSU 1,000-Point Club, which he accomplished in the Jacks win over Sam Houston State on Nov. 22. Wolters enters tonight's game with 1,099 career points, good for 25th all-time at SDSU and 16 points shy of moving up two spots on the list.
WOLTERS CHASES SCORING RECORD - Nate Wolters scored 303 points as a freshman, and then set the SDSU sophomore scoring record with 604 points. Double his two-year point total of 907 points, and it does not appear that he enters his junior season on pace to break the all-time SDSU scoring record of 1,931 points, but if he can average 512 points per season over his last two years, the record, set by Mark Tetzlaff from 1981-85, would indeed fall.
WOLTERS AND CALLAHAN EARN CBE CLASSIC HONORS - Nate Wolters averaged 19 points per game and dished out 14 assists in leading the Jackrabbits to three wins at the CBE Classic Macon Sub-regional last week, all of which earned him MVP honors at the event. Senior Griffan Callahan averaged 15.7 points and led the Jacks with 6.7 rebounds per game to earn all-tournament team honors.
NAGY NEARS MILESTONE WIN - Already the most prolific coach in SDSU history, Jackrabbit head coach Scott Nagy entered the 2011-12 season with 289 wins, just 11 shy of reaching the 300-win milestone. His six wins this season give him 295 for his career, five wins shy of the milestone.
THIS WEEK'S OPPONENT
Southwest Minnesota State Mustangs (2-3, 1-1 NSIC, 1-2 Away) - Tuesday's game marks the second Division I opponent for the Mustangs this season, as they opened the season with a 71-65 loss at Milwaukee on Nov. 12. The two Mustang wins on the season game against Minot State at the Bemidji State Classic and over Wayne State in their last outing on Saturday in Wayne, Neb.
Jordan Miller and Matt Zager both average an even 12 points per game to lead the Mustangs, with Miller adding 6.4 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game. Zager leads the team with a .595 shooting percentage. Nick Smith, Tramel Barnes and Casey Sussenguth all add more than eight points per game, with Smith leading the team with 7.2 rebounds per game.
The Series vs. Southwest Minnesota State - The Jackrabbits lead the all-time series with the Mustangs 14-1, which includes a 94-80 win last season on Nov. 18, at Frost Arena. The lone SMSU win in the series cam on Feb. 7, 2005, when the Mustangs cruised to a 93-55 win at Frost Arena.
The Last Meeting: at Frost Arena, Nov. 18, 2010 - Nate Wolters led five Jackrabbits in double figures with 18 points in a 94-80 at Frost Arena. Clint Sargent scored 15 points to move from 31st to 28th on the all-time scoring charts at SDSU with 1,085 points.
Tony Fiegen scored a career-high 14 points, Griffan Callahan pitched in with 12 and Dale Moss 11 points in the win.
Scott Roehl led the Mustangs with a game-high 23 points. Jordan Miler added 19 and Trent Carlson 12 points in the loss. Roehl also pulled down 10 rebounds for the game's only double-double.
Sargent hit a jumper from the win on the first possession of the game to give SDSU a 2-0 lead that the Jacks held onto for the rest of the game.SDSU led by as many as 14 points in the first half, and took a 49-35 lead into the locker room at halftime.
The Mustangs cut the lead to five at the 13:37 mark of the second half, but the Jacks came answered with a 9-0 run over the next two and a half minutes to increase their lead to 14 points at 68-54.
NEXT UP FOR THE JACKRABBITS - The Jackrabbits remain at home for two more games in the next week, starting with North Dakota on Saturday at 7:30 p.m., following the Jackrabbit women's game against Kansas State at 5 p.m. The Jackrabbits close the three game home stand against Dakota State on Monday at 7 p.m.
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