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South Dakota State University Athletics
SDSU Opens League Tournament vs. Western Illinois
3/6/2015 6:01:00 PM | Men's Basketball
South Dakota State earned a share of The Summit League regular season title, and opens the 2015 Summit League Championships on Saturday as the No. 1 seed, taking on No. 8 seed Western Illinois at 6 p.m. in the new Denny Sanford Premiere Center in Sioux Falls.
The Jackrabbits enter the tournament with a 21-9 overall record and finished the regular season with 12-4 mark in league play, and share the league title with North Dakota State with the same 12-4 league record. This marks the second regular season crown for the Jacks, who also shared the honor with Western Illinois in 2013.
The Fighting Leathernecks finished ninth in the league standings with an 9-19 overall record and a 3-13 record in league games, but made the eight-team field because Omaha, which finished eighth in the standings, remains ineligible for postseason play.
Both the Jacks and Leathernecks enter the tournament after a loss, as SDSU dropped its final regular season game at South Dakota last Saturday, while Western comes in riding an eight game skid after falling at Fort Wayne in its season finale by the score of 84-64.
THE OPPONENT
WESTERN ILLINOIS FIGHTING LEATHERNECKS (8-19, 3-13 Summit): Picked to finish seventh in the preseason poll, the Leathernecks finished ninth in the league standings, but enter the tournament as the No. 8 seed because Omaha is not eligible for the tournament until next year.
THE SERIES vs. WESTERN ILLINOIS
The Jackrabbits lead the all-time series 17-3, with wins in each of the last 14 meetings, which includes season sweeps in the last six seasons and a pair of wins in The Summit League Championships, including a 71-50 win on March 9, 2014.
TOURNAMENT CENTRAL
Find links to live radio, live stats, highlights, post game press conferences and more on the Tournament Central page on GoJacks.com
ON THE RADIO
The pregame show on the Jackrabbit Sports Network begins 30 minutes prior to tip with Tyler Merriam on the play-by-play.
Originated from the AM 570 WNAX studios in Yankton, S.D., every SDSU men's basketball game can be heard live on a total of seven stations on the Jackrabbit Sports Network.
WNAX - 570 AM – Yankton
KJJQ - 910 AM – Brookings
KDSJ - 980 AM – Deadwood
KORN - 1490 AM – Mitchell
KJOE - 106.1 FM – Pipestone, Minn.
KSDR - 1480 AM – Watertown
ON THE INTERNET
Subscribers to the Jackrabbit Extra can listen to every game streaming live on the Internet at no cost.
LIVE STATS
Find live stats for all Jackrabbit tournament games online at GoJacksLive.com
Click Here for live stats at South Dakota
ON SOCIAL MEDIA
TWITTER: @GoJacksMBB
Follow the team's official Twitter account for live in-game updates for every game, home and on the road.
ON TELEVISION
Network: Midco Sports Net/ESPN3
Play-by-play: Tom Nieman
Analyst: Brad Newitt
NEXT UP FOR THE JACKRABBITS
SDSU advances to The Summit League Championship semifinals with a win to face either No. 4 seed Fort Wayne or No. 5 seed South Dakota. Should the Jackrabbits lose, they await an opponent in the NIT.
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