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South Dakota State University Athletics
Monday, November 14
Irvine, Calif.
7 p.m. PT / 9 p.m. CT
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Road swing continues Monday at UC-Irvine
11/13/2016 6:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
IRVINE, California -- UC-Irvine and South Dakota State will square off in the opening game of the Sanford Pentagon Showcase this Monday in a road game for the Jackrabbits inside the Bren Events Center. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. PT/9 p.m. CT.
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Scouting the Bears
UC-Irvine and South Dakota State will square off in the opening game of the Sanford Pentagon Showcase this Monday in irvine, Calif., at the Bren Events Center. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. PT/9 p.m. CT. The Anteaters dropped their season opener, 72-56, on Friday against Utah State after claiming an 81-63 win over Sonoma State in an exhibition game. Luke Nelson was named to the All-Big West Preseason Poll earlier this year after earning First Team honors last season. Nelson returns as the only starter back for the Anteaters in 2016-17 and is one of six letterwinners remaining from last year's taem. Nelson scored 13.7 points per game to lead the team, putting together six 20-plus scoring efforts. A senior, Nelson ranks foruth in Anteater history in assists, steals and three-pointers made. Joining Nelson as a top talent for the Anteaters is Jaron Martin (8.3 ppg) and Joannis Dimakopoulos, a 7-2 center who averaged 5.2 points per game and has swatted 57 shots since joining the team two years ago. UCI was an NCAA Tournament in 2014-15 and last season went a school record 28-10 en route to a regular season co-championship in the Big West. The Anteaters have made the postseason each of the last four years, playing in the NIT in 2013, 2014 and 2016. Â This is the first-ever meeting between SDSU and UC-Irvine. Â The teams will square off again on Nov. 25 in Sioux Falls, S.D., as part of the Sanford Pentagon Showcase.
Jackrabbits' Last Time Out
  BERKELEY, California -- South Dakota State men's basketball fell at California in its season opener, 82-53, Friday evening inside Haas Pavilion.
  SDSU (0-1) was unable to sustain runs throughout the night, shooting just 28.6 percent from the field while Cal (1-0) hit 46.9 of its field goals and 12-of-32 from long range. The Jackrabbits were eight-of-30 from beyond the arc.
  Reed Tellinghuisen and Mike Daum each finished with 14 points to lead the team as Tellinghuisen led the Jacks on the boards, pulling down five rebounds.
  Tevin King finished with nine points and two assists and Theisen had eight, including two first half three-pointers.
  For California, four players were in double-digits as Jabiri Bird and Sam Singer each had 14 while Grant Mullins added 13 and Roger Moute a Bidias notched 12.
  Scoreless through the game's opening 6 minutes, SDSU's first points of the new campaign came from Tellinghuisen on a transition layup at 13:35 after Cal ran off nine unanswered.  The Jacks' slow start from the field continued, however, and the Bears pushed the game to a 21-5 score over the next two minutes.
  Inside the 12-minute mark of the opening half, Ian Theisen hit a three-pointer at 10:54 that posed as a spark to the Jackrabbit offense, but it was Cal who countered over the next few minutes go up 24-6 at 8:12.
  Down 18 at that point, SDSU closed three game over the next minute as Mike Daum knocked down his first three-pointer of the game and Tevin King added three points of his own the old-fashioned way, making a free throw after a contested layup drew a foul.
  The Bears pushed things back to 15 soon after, but SDSU looked to be turning the tide as it heated up from the field and kept things close, trailing 32-19 at the under four media timeout.
  A pair of Daum layups in consecutive possessions saw SDSU make it 34-23 just inside two minutes to go in the half, and though the Bears went up 15 after a three-pointer at the 30-second mark, Theisen answered on the other end with his second long-range bucket of the day and sent the teams to the locker room at 40-28.
  At the break, Theisen led the Jacks with eight points while Daum and King each had seven.Â
  Out of the pause, SDSU looked build momentum early after Tellinghuisen threw down a two-handed dunk in the opening minute off an assist from Theisen, pulling the Jacks within 10 (40-30). Moments later, a technical foul was issued to California's Kinglsey Okoroh and the deficit shrunk to eight as Daum hit both free throws.
  That was as close as SDSU would come, however, as California recovered with a 30-3 run over the next 13 minutes, going up 70-35 before Tellinghuisen hit a three-pointer at 5:26.
  Over the final stretch, including Tellinghuisen's three, the Jacks outscored the Bears, 14-12.
Anteaters' Last Time Out (Bob Olson, UC-Irvine Athletics)
  IRVINE, Calif. --- UC Irvine fell to Utah State, 72-56, in the season opener for both teams Friday night as Jalen Moore led four Aggie players in double figures at the Bren Events Center.
Utah State, which led 40-24 at halftime, shot 52 percent from the field in the second half and 47 percent for the game to UCI's 29.5 percent.
  Freshman guard Eyassu Worku led the Anteaters with 11 points and senior center Ioannis Dimakopoulos added 10.
  Freshman guard Evan Leonard scored eight points, freshman John Edgar Jr. seven and freshman post Brad Greene added six points and four boards in seven minutes of action.Â
  Redshirt freshman guard Max Hazzard led UCI with six rebounds and registered five points and three assists.  Sophomore forwards Jonathan Galloway and Brandon Smith, along with Worku, pulled down five rebounds each.
  Senior guard Luke Nelson, UCI's leading scorer last season, did not play due to a hamstring injury.  Anteater head coach Russell Turner said that he is hopeful Nelson can play soon, possibly as early as Monday night's home game against South Dakota State.
  The Aggies led by as many as 23 points Friday, taking a 51-28 lead on a basket by Moore with 14:51 remaining in the game.
  UCI closed to within 14 at 56-42 on a steal and layup by freshman guard Evan Leonard with 10:05 left, but Utah State scored the next six points to seal the victory.
  Seven of the 11 Anteater players who saw action Friday were playing in their first collegiate game.
  The Anteaters outscored the Aggies, 34-13 in bench points, but Utah State had a 26-14 margin in the paint.  UCI outrebounded the Aggies, 41-36.
  UCI hosts South Dakota State Monday night at 7:00 in the Bren Center.  The Jackrabbits have competed in three of the last five NCAA Tournaments.
Jackrabbit Season Preview
South Dakota State enters the 2016-17 campaign with several new faces, but similar goals coming off its third NCAA Tournament appearance in the past five seasons. The Jackrabbits were picked second in The Summit League's preseason poll, finishing behind Fort Wayne and ahead of North Dakota State in the top three spots. Individually, Mike Daum headlined the preseason poll as the 2016-17 The Summit League Preseason Player of the Year alongside his First Team honors. Reed Tellinghuisen was picked Second Team. Daum is coming off a stellar redshirt freshman campaign where, despite starting only two games, led the team in points (15.2) and rebounds (6.1) and scored in double figures 30 times, including the final 21 games. He was named a Kyle Macy All-American, the Summit League Newcomer and Sixth Man of the Year (with First Team and All-Newcomer Team honors). Tellinghuisen started 34 games last season and shot 36.8 percent beyond the arc, averaging 9.0 points and 4.8 rebounds per contest. He is the most experienced Jackrabbit on the floor (69 games, 57 starts). Other key returners include Ian Theisen, Tevin King, Skyler Flatten and Lane Severyn. Theisen started all 34 games last season and put up averages of 6.1 points and 3.4 rebounds. King started two games, played in 34 and led the team with with 27 steals. Flatten has battled injuries but enters 2016-17 healthy. He last played in 2014-15 where he played in 31 games as a reserve. Severyn played in 27 games last season. Three redshirt freshmen, Adam Dykman, Beau Brown and Cole Gentry enter the season with the chance to compete for spots as well. The Jacks feature several new faces expected to contend for playing time, including A.J. Hess and Michael Orris, a pair of graduate transfers from Southern Utah and Northern Illinois, respectively. Two other transfers, Chris Howell (Butler Community College) and Andre Wallace (Iowa Western) will be part of the conversation as well.
New Faces, Great Places
South Dakota State's hiring of first-year head coach T.J. Otzelberger was a nod to the state's motto, "Great Faces, Great Places." The new face of the program, announced April 14, 2016, is in his first-ever heading coaching role, but has been groomed for the position over several assistant stops, working with Lorenzo Romar (Washington), Fred Hoiberg (Iowa State), Greg McDermott (Iowa State) and Steve Prohm (Iowa State). Alongside Otzelberger, new members of the coaching staff include Ben Walker, a Creighton hall of fame member who last coached at Jackson State, Eric Henderson, a former Wayne State (Neb.) standout who spent last season with SDSU's rival, North Dakota State, and Tyler Glidden, the director of operations who has worked at Creighton and Iowa State. Rob Klinkefus was the lone holdover from former head coach Scott Nagy's staff, and enters his 11th season at SDSU.
#FearFrost
The Jacks own a 63-3 record at Frost Arena over the last five seasons, which includes perfect home records in four of the last five years, including 2015-16. That also includes a 30-game home winning streak from Jan. 29, 2011 through Nov. 14, 2013, and their current 29-game home winning streak, the third-longest home winning streak in Division I at the end of the 2015-16 season. South Dakota State completed its sixth perfect record at Frost Arena last on Feb. 27, with its win over Oral Roberts. SDSU put together undefeated seasons inside Frost Arena the following years: 1984-85 (18-0), 2002-03 (17-0), 2011-12 (14-0), 2012-13 (13-0), 2014-15 (13-0) and 2015-16 (12-0).
20-Win Seasons
Reaching the 20-win mark has become a standard at South Dakota State University over the previous five seasons, as the Jackrabbits have done in four times in that span and 23 times in the program's history.Â
Scoring Streaks and Quick Hits
2015-16 Season Review
The 2015-16 Jackrabbit Men's Basketball season featured several highlights throughout the campaign, including a trip to the NCAA Tournament, a conference tournament title and earning a share of The Summit League's regular season championship. The Jackrabbits earned the No. 12 seed in last year's West Region, narrowly missing an upset over fifth-seeded Maryland in the first round, falling 79-74. Prior to that, SDSU earned the nickname "Cardiac Jacks" with a run through the conference tournament, pulling off three-point quarterfinal and one-point semifinal wins before earning the automatic bid with a 67-59 win over NDSU in the final. Mike Daum was named the tournament MVP and Deondre Parks was a member of the All-Tournament team. For the regular season, SDSU posted its second consecutive undefeated home record while three players garnered All-Conference honors in addition to other national awards. Mike Daum was named the Summit League Freshman and Sixth Man of the Year in addition to earning spots on the All-Conference First Team and the All-Newcomer Team. George Marshall was an All-Conference First Team selection and Deondre Parks claimed an honorable mention nod. On the national level, Marshall and Parks earned NABC Division I All-District 12 honors with First and Second Team nods, respectively, and Daum was named a Kyle Macy All-American. After the season, longtime head coach Scott Nagy resigned after completing his 21st season at the helm.
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Broadcast Information
| Radio/Audio Talent | Tim Becwar |
| Live Radio | Jackrabbit Sports Network (Flagship WNAX 570 AM / 99.9 FM |
| Free Live Audio | Jackrabbit All-Access |
| Live Stats | UCIrvineSports.com |
| Live Video | BigWest.org |
Scouting the Bears
UC-Irvine and South Dakota State will square off in the opening game of the Sanford Pentagon Showcase this Monday in irvine, Calif., at the Bren Events Center. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. PT/9 p.m. CT. The Anteaters dropped their season opener, 72-56, on Friday against Utah State after claiming an 81-63 win over Sonoma State in an exhibition game. Luke Nelson was named to the All-Big West Preseason Poll earlier this year after earning First Team honors last season. Nelson returns as the only starter back for the Anteaters in 2016-17 and is one of six letterwinners remaining from last year's taem. Nelson scored 13.7 points per game to lead the team, putting together six 20-plus scoring efforts. A senior, Nelson ranks foruth in Anteater history in assists, steals and three-pointers made. Joining Nelson as a top talent for the Anteaters is Jaron Martin (8.3 ppg) and Joannis Dimakopoulos, a 7-2 center who averaged 5.2 points per game and has swatted 57 shots since joining the team two years ago. UCI was an NCAA Tournament in 2014-15 and last season went a school record 28-10 en route to a regular season co-championship in the Big West. The Anteaters have made the postseason each of the last four years, playing in the NIT in 2013, 2014 and 2016. Â This is the first-ever meeting between SDSU and UC-Irvine. Â The teams will square off again on Nov. 25 in Sioux Falls, S.D., as part of the Sanford Pentagon Showcase.
Jackrabbits' Last Time Out
  BERKELEY, California -- South Dakota State men's basketball fell at California in its season opener, 82-53, Friday evening inside Haas Pavilion.
  SDSU (0-1) was unable to sustain runs throughout the night, shooting just 28.6 percent from the field while Cal (1-0) hit 46.9 of its field goals and 12-of-32 from long range. The Jackrabbits were eight-of-30 from beyond the arc.
  Reed Tellinghuisen and Mike Daum each finished with 14 points to lead the team as Tellinghuisen led the Jacks on the boards, pulling down five rebounds.
  Tevin King finished with nine points and two assists and Theisen had eight, including two first half three-pointers.
  For California, four players were in double-digits as Jabiri Bird and Sam Singer each had 14 while Grant Mullins added 13 and Roger Moute a Bidias notched 12.
  Scoreless through the game's opening 6 minutes, SDSU's first points of the new campaign came from Tellinghuisen on a transition layup at 13:35 after Cal ran off nine unanswered.  The Jacks' slow start from the field continued, however, and the Bears pushed the game to a 21-5 score over the next two minutes.
  Inside the 12-minute mark of the opening half, Ian Theisen hit a three-pointer at 10:54 that posed as a spark to the Jackrabbit offense, but it was Cal who countered over the next few minutes go up 24-6 at 8:12.
  Down 18 at that point, SDSU closed three game over the next minute as Mike Daum knocked down his first three-pointer of the game and Tevin King added three points of his own the old-fashioned way, making a free throw after a contested layup drew a foul.
  The Bears pushed things back to 15 soon after, but SDSU looked to be turning the tide as it heated up from the field and kept things close, trailing 32-19 at the under four media timeout.
  A pair of Daum layups in consecutive possessions saw SDSU make it 34-23 just inside two minutes to go in the half, and though the Bears went up 15 after a three-pointer at the 30-second mark, Theisen answered on the other end with his second long-range bucket of the day and sent the teams to the locker room at 40-28.
  At the break, Theisen led the Jacks with eight points while Daum and King each had seven.Â
  Out of the pause, SDSU looked build momentum early after Tellinghuisen threw down a two-handed dunk in the opening minute off an assist from Theisen, pulling the Jacks within 10 (40-30). Moments later, a technical foul was issued to California's Kinglsey Okoroh and the deficit shrunk to eight as Daum hit both free throws.
  That was as close as SDSU would come, however, as California recovered with a 30-3 run over the next 13 minutes, going up 70-35 before Tellinghuisen hit a three-pointer at 5:26.
  Over the final stretch, including Tellinghuisen's three, the Jacks outscored the Bears, 14-12.
Anteaters' Last Time Out (Bob Olson, UC-Irvine Athletics)
  IRVINE, Calif. --- UC Irvine fell to Utah State, 72-56, in the season opener for both teams Friday night as Jalen Moore led four Aggie players in double figures at the Bren Events Center.
Utah State, which led 40-24 at halftime, shot 52 percent from the field in the second half and 47 percent for the game to UCI's 29.5 percent.
  Freshman guard Eyassu Worku led the Anteaters with 11 points and senior center Ioannis Dimakopoulos added 10.
  Freshman guard Evan Leonard scored eight points, freshman John Edgar Jr. seven and freshman post Brad Greene added six points and four boards in seven minutes of action.Â
  Redshirt freshman guard Max Hazzard led UCI with six rebounds and registered five points and three assists.  Sophomore forwards Jonathan Galloway and Brandon Smith, along with Worku, pulled down five rebounds each.
  Senior guard Luke Nelson, UCI's leading scorer last season, did not play due to a hamstring injury.  Anteater head coach Russell Turner said that he is hopeful Nelson can play soon, possibly as early as Monday night's home game against South Dakota State.
  The Aggies led by as many as 23 points Friday, taking a 51-28 lead on a basket by Moore with 14:51 remaining in the game.
  UCI closed to within 14 at 56-42 on a steal and layup by freshman guard Evan Leonard with 10:05 left, but Utah State scored the next six points to seal the victory.
  Seven of the 11 Anteater players who saw action Friday were playing in their first collegiate game.
  The Anteaters outscored the Aggies, 34-13 in bench points, but Utah State had a 26-14 margin in the paint.  UCI outrebounded the Aggies, 41-36.
  UCI hosts South Dakota State Monday night at 7:00 in the Bren Center.  The Jackrabbits have competed in three of the last five NCAA Tournaments.
Jackrabbit Season Preview
South Dakota State enters the 2016-17 campaign with several new faces, but similar goals coming off its third NCAA Tournament appearance in the past five seasons. The Jackrabbits were picked second in The Summit League's preseason poll, finishing behind Fort Wayne and ahead of North Dakota State in the top three spots. Individually, Mike Daum headlined the preseason poll as the 2016-17 The Summit League Preseason Player of the Year alongside his First Team honors. Reed Tellinghuisen was picked Second Team. Daum is coming off a stellar redshirt freshman campaign where, despite starting only two games, led the team in points (15.2) and rebounds (6.1) and scored in double figures 30 times, including the final 21 games. He was named a Kyle Macy All-American, the Summit League Newcomer and Sixth Man of the Year (with First Team and All-Newcomer Team honors). Tellinghuisen started 34 games last season and shot 36.8 percent beyond the arc, averaging 9.0 points and 4.8 rebounds per contest. He is the most experienced Jackrabbit on the floor (69 games, 57 starts). Other key returners include Ian Theisen, Tevin King, Skyler Flatten and Lane Severyn. Theisen started all 34 games last season and put up averages of 6.1 points and 3.4 rebounds. King started two games, played in 34 and led the team with with 27 steals. Flatten has battled injuries but enters 2016-17 healthy. He last played in 2014-15 where he played in 31 games as a reserve. Severyn played in 27 games last season. Three redshirt freshmen, Adam Dykman, Beau Brown and Cole Gentry enter the season with the chance to compete for spots as well. The Jacks feature several new faces expected to contend for playing time, including A.J. Hess and Michael Orris, a pair of graduate transfers from Southern Utah and Northern Illinois, respectively. Two other transfers, Chris Howell (Butler Community College) and Andre Wallace (Iowa Western) will be part of the conversation as well.
New Faces, Great Places
South Dakota State's hiring of first-year head coach T.J. Otzelberger was a nod to the state's motto, "Great Faces, Great Places." The new face of the program, announced April 14, 2016, is in his first-ever heading coaching role, but has been groomed for the position over several assistant stops, working with Lorenzo Romar (Washington), Fred Hoiberg (Iowa State), Greg McDermott (Iowa State) and Steve Prohm (Iowa State). Alongside Otzelberger, new members of the coaching staff include Ben Walker, a Creighton hall of fame member who last coached at Jackson State, Eric Henderson, a former Wayne State (Neb.) standout who spent last season with SDSU's rival, North Dakota State, and Tyler Glidden, the director of operations who has worked at Creighton and Iowa State. Rob Klinkefus was the lone holdover from former head coach Scott Nagy's staff, and enters his 11th season at SDSU.
#FearFrost
The Jacks own a 63-3 record at Frost Arena over the last five seasons, which includes perfect home records in four of the last five years, including 2015-16. That also includes a 30-game home winning streak from Jan. 29, 2011 through Nov. 14, 2013, and their current 29-game home winning streak, the third-longest home winning streak in Division I at the end of the 2015-16 season. South Dakota State completed its sixth perfect record at Frost Arena last on Feb. 27, with its win over Oral Roberts. SDSU put together undefeated seasons inside Frost Arena the following years: 1984-85 (18-0), 2002-03 (17-0), 2011-12 (14-0), 2012-13 (13-0), 2014-15 (13-0) and 2015-16 (12-0).
20-Win Seasons
Reaching the 20-win mark has become a standard at South Dakota State University over the previous five seasons, as the Jackrabbits have done in four times in that span and 23 times in the program's history.Â
Scoring Streaks and Quick Hits
- At least one Jackrabbit has scored in double figures over the last 278 games dating back to Jan. 12, 2008 at IUPUI when Anthony Cordova has nine points to lead the Jacks.
- SDSU has made at least one three-pointer in 305 games. The last time the Jackrabbits did not make a three-point field goal was Jan. 25, 2007 at Utah State when the team went 0-for-13.
- From Jan. 31, 2009 through the 2013-14 season, SDSU put together a streak of 179 games with at least one 1,000 point scorer on the floor. Entering 2016-17, SDSU has now gone 70 games without a 1,000 point scorer. Reed Tellinghuisen (608 points) and Mike Daum (518 points) are the two Jackrabbits closest to joining the club.
- Mike Daum set the school's freshman scoring record with 518 last season. The previous record was Matt Caldwell's 453 points from 2006.
- Daum is the first-ever SDSU freshman (at both DI and DII levels) to earn all-league/all-conference honors.
- South Dakota State has never won a game in the Golden State of California. The Jacks are 0-11 since the first year of Division I transition (2004-05) in California, and all-time have gone 0-14. SDSU has beaten teams from California, last defeating Bakersfield in 2014-15 at the World Vision Classic in Ogden, Utah.
- After having 20 turnover's in last week's exhibition, SDSU trimmed that mark to 12 turnovers against the Golden Bear defense.
- SDSU is now 72-39 in season-openers all-time.
- Jacks are 5-8 in season-opening games at the Division I level.
- The Jackrabbits are now 0-12 since the first year of Division I transition (2004-05) in California, and all-time have gone 0-15.
- Mike Daum has now reached double figures in 22 consecutive games dating back to last season.
2015-16 Season Review
The 2015-16 Jackrabbit Men's Basketball season featured several highlights throughout the campaign, including a trip to the NCAA Tournament, a conference tournament title and earning a share of The Summit League's regular season championship. The Jackrabbits earned the No. 12 seed in last year's West Region, narrowly missing an upset over fifth-seeded Maryland in the first round, falling 79-74. Prior to that, SDSU earned the nickname "Cardiac Jacks" with a run through the conference tournament, pulling off three-point quarterfinal and one-point semifinal wins before earning the automatic bid with a 67-59 win over NDSU in the final. Mike Daum was named the tournament MVP and Deondre Parks was a member of the All-Tournament team. For the regular season, SDSU posted its second consecutive undefeated home record while three players garnered All-Conference honors in addition to other national awards. Mike Daum was named the Summit League Freshman and Sixth Man of the Year in addition to earning spots on the All-Conference First Team and the All-Newcomer Team. George Marshall was an All-Conference First Team selection and Deondre Parks claimed an honorable mention nod. On the national level, Marshall and Parks earned NABC Division I All-District 12 honors with First and Second Team nods, respectively, and Daum was named a Kyle Macy All-American. After the season, longtime head coach Scott Nagy resigned after completing his 21st season at the helm.
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