Late Rally Comes Up Short in Utah

Tuesday, December 22

Ogden, Utah

8 p.m.

South Dakota State University

10-3

Weber State

7-5

South Dakota State

Weber State

12/22/2015 11:37:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score

By: SDSU Sports Info

OGDEN, Utah – South Dakota State scored a season-high 95 points on Tuesday at Weber State, but they also surrendered a season-high 99, as the Wildcats held off a late Jackrabbits rally to avenge an early season loss to the Jackrabbits in Brookings with a 99-95 win at the Dee Events Center in Ogden, Utah.

The loss sends the Jackrabbits into the holiday with a 10-3 record, while the Big Sky Conference favorite Wildcats improve to 7-5.

Down 95-86 with under a minute to play, the Jacks used a Reed Tellinghuisen 3-pointer, followed by a Wildcat turnover and a Deondre Parks and-1 to cut the lead to 95-91 with 37 seconds left. Parks missed the foul shot, but got his own miss and put it back to cut the lead to 95-93 with 32 seconds left.

The Wildcats hit a pair of free throws on the other end to get the lead back to four points, then the Jacks got a tip-in from Tevin King to cut it back to 97-95, but did so with only five seconds left, and Weber State sank the free throws to push the lead to 99-95 with not enough time for the Jacks to keep the rally going.

The Jacks opened the game on a 9-2 run, with seven of those points coming from Tellinghuisen, who did not score on Saturday at FGCU, prompting a timeout from the Weber State bench.

SDSU held that lead until midway thought the half, when an 8-0 Weber State run put the Wildcats up 23-21 with a tick over 10 minutes left in the frame, and then added a 6-0 run later in the half to increase its lead to 30-25, a lead that would reach 38-30 at its peak.

SDSU bounced back with a 9-0 run to regain the lead at 39-38 on a Lane Severyn jumper in the lane with under two minutes left in the half, the first of two more lead changes before Weber State took a 44-42 lead into the locker room.

The Wildcats held the lead throughout the second half, and seemingly put the game away with an 11-2 run that put them up 80-67 with 7:12 remaining, only to see the Jacks respond with a 7-0 run that cut the lead to 80-74 with 5:29 left, but the Wildcats quickly got the lead back into double figures and never looked back.

Parks led the Jackrabbits with 23 points, while both Tellinghuisen and Keaton Moffitt set new career-high; Tellinghuisen with 22 and Moffitt with 15. Parks led the Jacks with eight rebounds and a career-high four steals, and both he and Moffitt led the Jacks with four assists.

Tevin King finished with nine points in his first-career start, as did Ian Theisen, who scored all nine points from 3-point range, which sets a new career-high for him.

Both Joel Bolomboy and Jeremy Senglin scored 22 points to lead the Wildcats, with Bolomboy adding a game-high 14 rebounds. Kyndahl Hill pitched in with 21 and Dusty Baker 10 points in the win.

The Jackrabbits look to bounce back from the loss on Sunday, when they take on Middle Tennessee State in Sioux Falls at the Sanford Pentagon at 4:30 p.m.

NOTES: All-time series tied 1-1 … SDSU trailed at halftime for the first time this season … King made his first-career start, filling in for an injured Jake Bittle … SDSU used its fifth different starting lineup of the season … SDSU finished with a season-low eight turnovers … SDSU gave up at least 90 points for the first time since March, 20, 2015 (92) at Vanderbilt in the second round of the NIT… two Jackrabbits scored at least 20 points in a loss for the first time since Jan. 4, 2015 at North Dakota State … Parks scored at least 20 points for the fourth time this season and for the eighth time in his career