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South Dakota State University Athletics
Saturday, December 31
Brookings, S.D.
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Jacks, Coyotes square off Saturday
12/30/2016 1:00:00 PM | Men's Basketball
SDSU looks to even 2016-17 SD Corn Showdown Series
Broadcast Information
The Setup
Scouting the Coyotes
SD Corn Showdown Series
Why The Confusion?
SDSU and USD have squared off 217 times prior to Saturday, but do not agree on the all-time series record. The lone game in question is the March 12, 1915 contest that SDSU has listed as a 15-15 tie and USD has it marked as a 16-15 win. The following text is from a summer 1969 newspaper clipping that provides insight on the game:
  Brookings -- Here's one for the new North Central Conference commissioner ... who won the 1915 basketball game between South Dakota and South Dakota State?
  The clubs battled in 1915 to what SDS officials record a tie game and USD officials list as a victory.
  The game was the second of a two-game set at Brookings in 1915. The Coyotes had won the first game 28-22.
  Here is the story as it appeared in a newspaper write-up following the battle:
  "The teams battled to a 7-7 halftime score and as action got tougher in the second half, Alex Culhane of SDS fouled out (with four fouls). Almost immediately, Gene Vidal, USD's star center, drew his fourth foul and left the game.
  "Vidal was replaced by Gondolfo, who promptly shot a free throw. State's scorekeeper credited the free throw to Vidal, while USD's scorer gave it to Gondolfo. This made the score 15-15.
  "However, USD's scorer, then seeing the creditation by Stat's scorer, added another point to Vidal's scoring, marking it 16-15 for USD ... Thus two points were scored on one free throw."
  Some disagreement on the score at the bench came about at this point and, as the 1915 SDS school newspaper reports, "Seeing they were beat with Vidal out, USD refused to finish the game. The score at present stands undecided."
  Vidal recently died in Palos Verdes, Calif.
  What occured after the game? The newspaper noted: "After calling the game, a pleasant hour of dancing was held in the gymnasium.
  The question over 50 years later is: Does the home book stand and who won the game?
Charity Stripe Success
Daum-inating
Mike Daum has stepped into a new role as the go-to scorer for the Jackrabbits in 2016-17, but has picked up where he left off after his redshirt freshman season ended with All-Summit League First Team, All-Newcomer and Newcomer of the Year honors. Daum was picked as the 2016-17 Summit League Preseason Player of the Year, and is living up to the hype with 22.1 points and 8.1 rebounds per contest so far this year.Â
#FearFrost
From Long Range
Team Quick Hits
Jackrabbits' Last Time Out -- Dec. 28, 2016
  South Dakota State opened Summit League play with an 80-69 loss to North Dakota State as its 34-game home winning streak came to an end Wednesday evening at Frost Arena.
SDSU (7-9, 0-1 Summit League) lead by 15 early in the second half but a charging NDSU (9-5, 1-0 Summit League) team used a cold spell to end the Jacks' streak.Â
  Mike Daum led the way with 24 points for the Jackrabbits and added eight rebounds, second on the boards behind A.J. Hess, who grabbed 10 rebounds. Skyler Flatten and Tevin King each had 11 points for the Jacks while Michael Orris finished with six points, six rebounds and four assists.
  Five Bison scored in double figures as Paul Miller paced NDSU with 21 points and 10 rebounds. Dexter Warner had a double-double as well, finishing with 10 points and 14 rebounds.
  Trailing 4-2 in the opening two minutes, the Jackrabbits opened up an 13-4 lead with a run of 11 unanswered as NDSU went nearly seven minutes without a point. A free throw from NDSU's Khy Kabellis ended SDSU's run at 12:10, and the Bison clawed back to within three (13-10) over the next minute with a run of their own.
  SDSU stretched its lead back to seven (20-13) after a fast break layup from Andre Wallace off a Tevin King assist at 8:02, but saw the Bison hang within single digits until 2:45 when a putback layup from Daum gave SDSU a 30-19 lead.
  The final 92 seconds of the first saw the Jacks end the half on a 7-0 run and went to the locker room ahead, 37-22.
  South Dakota State shot 46.2 percent from the field in the opening half while NDSU hit only 30 percent of its shots and went 3 of 18 beyond the arc. The Jackrabbits held a plus-11 (25-14) lead in rebounding margin at the break and outscored NDSU in the paint, 18-10, behind Daum's game-high first half points.
  The teams traded baskets through the first two minutes of the second as SDSU's lead stayed at 15 (44-29) before the Bison ran off six straight to draw back within single digits, 44-35, at 16:46.Â
  Daum hit a 3-pointer on the other end to end the run, and after a Reed Tellinghuisen block on the defensive end, an old-fashioned 3-point play from King negated NDSU's rally and moved SDSU's lead back to 15 (50-35), after the under-16 media.
  A cold streak hit the Jackrabbits soon after as the team went over nine minutes without a field goal and NDSU climbed back to take a 58-55 lead with 8:36 to play after scoring 15 unanswered.Â
  King's free throws at 7:54 ended a scoreless stretch of over five minutes for the Jacks, but the field goal struggles didn't end until 5:10 when Flatten hit a 3-pointer to put SDSU down four, 65-61. NDSU, however, continued to hit shots to keep SDSU at bay down the stretch and the Jacks saw the nation's second longest active streak come to an end.
Coyotes' Last Time Out -- Dec. 29, 2016
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  VERMILLION, S.D.—South Dakota made a strong opening statement to Summit League play with an 86-69, start-to-finish drubbing of Omaha Thursday inside Sanford Coyote Sports Center. It was the team's largest margin of victory in a conference game in four seasons.
  Trey Dickerson scored a season-high 17 points while Matt Mooney and Tyler Flack added 16 each as the Coyotes (10-6, 1-0 Summit) improved to 7-0 in their new facility. It was the team's first 1-0 start to Summit play in three seasons.
  Omaha (7-7, 0-1), which entered the game with the highest non-conference RPI amongst Summit League teams, trailed 29-9 with less than seven minutes to go in the first half and never recovered. The Mavericks had six field goals in the first half, were 0 for 7 from downtown, and committed 11 turnovers in trailing 45-23 at the break. Zach Jackson led UNO with 14 points.
  South Dakota in the first half shot 51 percent from the field, buried half the team's season-high 10 triples, and had a rebounding edge of nine. Dickerson and Mooney combined to equal the Mavs halftime total of 23 points. Dickerson had back-to-back drives to the hoop to spark an 8-0 run to start the game. Mooney hit three 3's in a four-minute stretch in the later part of the half and had 13 in the first.
  Most of Flack's performance came near the midway point of the second half when he scored 10 unanswered points and 12 in a row for South Dakota in a span of two minutes. He had just reentered the game after taking a spill that forced him to the athletic training room when he hit his first 3 since November. He followed that with a three-point play, back-to-back mid-range jumpers, and then a high-flying dunk on an assist from Trey Burch-Manning that put USD ahead 75-49 with eight minutes to go.
  The Coyotes finished 32 of 66 from the field (.485) which included a 10 of 18 performance from downtown. Burch-Manning had 11 rebounds, five offensive, to go with six points. Carlton Hurst had a pair of dunks as part of his 7-point, 6-rebound effort. True freshmen Triston Simpson and Tyler Peterson scored seven points apiece off South Dakota's bench. Mooney was credited with seven steals, the most by a Coyote in 13 years.
  Omaha's all-Summit League guard Tra-Deon Hollins had five points, four assists and five turnovers. Preseason all-Summit pick Tre-Shawn Thurman had nine points on 3 of 9 shooting. Marcus Tyus, who has a 37- and a 33-point performance to his credit this year, had nine points on seven free throws and one field goal in 12 attempts.
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.
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
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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The Setup
- South Dakota State hosts in-state rival South Dakota Saturday for a New Year's Eve, SD Corn Showdown Series matchup at Frost Arena.
- The Jackrabbits and Coyotes have squared off 217 times prior to tonight's matchup. The Jacks have the all-time series at 124-92-1 in SDSU's favor, while USD places the all-time record at 124-93 (SDSU leading). The game in limbo is from March 12, 1915 where SDSU has the game as a 15-15 tie and USD?has it marked as a 16-15 win.Â
- SDSU has won the last three matchups and seven of the last eight against the Coyotes. Since USD moved to the Division I for the 2008-09 season, SDSU holds a 8-3 record against the Coyotes and has not lost at Frost Arena.
- As part of the SD Corn Showdown Series, Feeding South Dakota and both teams have come together for orange, the color that represents awareness for hunger. With the "Get off the Bench" campaign, fans are encouraged to donate $1 (or more) in support of hunger awareness and the fight to end hunger. Fans can give cash in bins around Frost Arena or at the concession stands. They can also donate electronically at FeedingSouthDakota.org or using the Venmo App, Feeding-South Dakota. As well, players from both teams are wearing orange socks and coaches will sport orange ties in a sign of unity behind the cause.
Scouting the Coyotes
- South Dakota boasts a 10-6 overall record entering the weekend after an 86-69 win over Omaha last Thursday in its conference opener.Â
- USD opened the year 4-0 before a stretch of four losses in five games. The Coyotes have won four of their last six contests.
- USD?is led by three double figure scorers in Matt Mooney (14.7 ppg), Tyler Flack (13.4 ppg) and Trey Dickerson (10.6 ppg) while Trey Burch-Manning, an All-Summit League Preseason First Team pick, is averaging 9.5 points per contest. Â
- Flack leads the team wtih 7.7 rebounds per game, ahead of Burch-Manning's 6.2 boards per contest while Dickerson has dished out a team-high 51 assists while putting together a 2.22 assist-to-turnover ratio. Other stat leaders include Flack in blocks (25, 1.8 per game) and Mooney in steals (29, 1.8 per game).
- As a team, the Coyotes are averaging 75.3 points and 40.1 rebounds per contest while opponents are putting up 71.2 points and 37.1 rebounds per game against USD.Â
- From the field, USD is firing at 42 percent with a 32.3 percent mark beyond the arc. At the free throw line, the Coyotes have hit 251 of their 362 (.693) attempts.Â
- Opponents are shooting 42 percent on field goals, 35.2 percent on 3-pointers and 72.5 percent at the line against USD.
SD Corn Showdown Series
- Saturday's matchup is another SD?Corn Showdown Series bout between the two schools in 2016-17. USD?holds a 4-3 lead in the series after the fall season. SDSU has a chance to pick up two points on Saturday as the men host USD and the women travel to USD.Â
- The South Dakota Showdown Series, presented by South Dakota Corn, tracks head-to-head match-ups and conference championship results in 17 sports with each school accumulating points toward the overall series championship. The Series also recognizes outstanding academic achievement by the schools' student-athletes and aims to raise awareness, funds and donations for Feeding South Dakota, a statewide not-for-profit with the goal of eliminating hunger in South Dakota. More information can be found at www.sdcornshowcase.com.
- SDSU has won the SD Corn Showcase Series three times over the last four years.
Why The Confusion?
SDSU and USD have squared off 217 times prior to Saturday, but do not agree on the all-time series record. The lone game in question is the March 12, 1915 contest that SDSU has listed as a 15-15 tie and USD has it marked as a 16-15 win. The following text is from a summer 1969 newspaper clipping that provides insight on the game:
  Brookings -- Here's one for the new North Central Conference commissioner ... who won the 1915 basketball game between South Dakota and South Dakota State?
  The clubs battled in 1915 to what SDS officials record a tie game and USD officials list as a victory.
  The game was the second of a two-game set at Brookings in 1915. The Coyotes had won the first game 28-22.
  Here is the story as it appeared in a newspaper write-up following the battle:
  "The teams battled to a 7-7 halftime score and as action got tougher in the second half, Alex Culhane of SDS fouled out (with four fouls). Almost immediately, Gene Vidal, USD's star center, drew his fourth foul and left the game.
  "Vidal was replaced by Gondolfo, who promptly shot a free throw. State's scorekeeper credited the free throw to Vidal, while USD's scorer gave it to Gondolfo. This made the score 15-15.
  "However, USD's scorer, then seeing the creditation by Stat's scorer, added another point to Vidal's scoring, marking it 16-15 for USD ... Thus two points were scored on one free throw."
  Some disagreement on the score at the bench came about at this point and, as the 1915 SDS school newspaper reports, "Seeing they were beat with Vidal out, USD refused to finish the game. The score at present stands undecided."
  Vidal recently died in Palos Verdes, Calif.
  What occured after the game? The newspaper noted: "After calling the game, a pleasant hour of dancing was held in the gymnasium.
  The question over 50 years later is: Does the home book stand and who won the game?
Charity Stripe Success
- South Dakota State has gotten to the free throw line more than its opponents in 14 of 16 games this season and have trailed in free throw attempts just once this season. The Jackrabbits are shooting just under 80 percent (79.3) on free throws this season, have four players above the 80 percent mark and 10 shooting above 70 percent on free throws.
- From Dec. 7 to Dec. 22, Mike?Daum hit a school record 43 consecutive free throws, breaking the previous record of 35, set by Garrett Callahan in 2008-09. Over the final seven non-conference games Daum hit 60 of 63 at the charity stripe (95.2 percent).
- Mike Daum set a school record with 16 made free throws (out of 16 attempts) against Murray State after tying the previous school record with 13 made free throws (out of 13 attempts) against Idaho (Dec. 10).
- As of Dec. 29, South Dakota State ranks 12th in free throw attempts (368), second nationally in free throws made (292) and sixth in NCAA?Division I in free throw percentage (.793).
- As of Dec. 29, Mike Daum is the national leader in free throw attempts (132) and makes (119) while sitting 26th in percentage (90.2).
Daum-inating
Mike Daum has stepped into a new role as the go-to scorer for the Jackrabbits in 2016-17, but has picked up where he left off after his redshirt freshman season ended with All-Summit League First Team, All-Newcomer and Newcomer of the Year honors. Daum was picked as the 2016-17 Summit League Preseason Player of the Year, and is living up to the hype with 22.1 points and 8.1 rebounds per contest so far this year.Â
- Named The Summit League's Athlete of the Week on Dec. 19 after a monster performance against Murray State that earned him a spot on ESPN's SportsCenter.
- Daum has hit double figures in 15 of 16 games this season and has scored at least 20 in 11 contests.
- Has scored over 30 points in three contests.
- Hit a school record 43 consecutive free throws from Dec. 7 to 22, breaking the previous record of 35, set by Garrett Callahan in 2008-09. Over the final seven non-conference games Daum hit 60 of 63 at the charity stripe (95.2 percent).
- Has recorded four double-doubles this season and six in his career.
- Set new or matched career-highs for points (32), field goals (10), free throws made-attempted (11 of 13), assists (six) and minutes (36) on Nov. 27 against Milwaukee.
- Reset new career highs in points (33) and free throws made (13 of 13) against Idaho on Dec. 10.
- Moved into a seven-way tie for fourth in single game field goals made (11) and five-way tie for seventh in field goal attempts (22) in a single game against Murray State.
- Put together the program's seventh highest scoring game against Murray State when he finished with 39 to go alongside a 16 of 16 effort from the charity stripe that set a new school record for free throws made.
- Daum recorded back-to-back double-doubles against UC Irvine and East Tennessee State at the Sanford Pentagon Showcase, March 25-26. The last time a Jackrabbit had recorded back-to-back double-doubles in a game was Nov. 14 and 17, 2014 when Cody Larson achieved the feat in the opening two games of the 2014-15 season.
- Daum was named to the Sanford Pentagon Showcase All-Tournament Team after posting averages of 24.0 points, 11.0 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game in three contests over the weekend event in Sioux Falls, S.D.
- Daum saw his streak of 22 consecutive games in double figures come to an end Nov. 14 at UC Irvine when he finished with nine points and eight rebounds, but has only missed scoring 10 or more once this season and five times in 50 career games.
- Daum has 18 career games with 20-plus points.
- Daum set the school's freshman scoring record with 518 last season. The previous record was Matt Caldwell's 453 points from 2006. He was also the first-ever SDSU freshman (at both DI and DII levels) to earn all-league/all-conference honors.
- Daum's 33-point effort against Idaho on Dec. 10 moved him into first on the active career scoring list.
- Daum went over the 800-point mark in his career with 39 points against Murray State on Dec. 10. He is the program's active leading scorer and if he continues his pace of more than 20 points per game, Daum is projected to join the 1,000 points club by the end of January 2017.
- Daum ranks second nationally in total scoring with 353 points through 16 games. He is 12th nationally with 22.1 points per game currently.
#FearFrost
- The Jacks own a 67-4 record at Frost Arena over the last five seasons, which includes perfect home records in four of the last five years. That span includes two home winning streaks of 30 or more games.
- SDSU's 34-game winning streak, which ended Wednesday, Dec. 28, ranked as the nation's second longest active streak at the time it ended.
- SDSU won 30 consecutive home games from Jan. 29, 2011 to Nov. 14, 2013.
- 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).
From Long Range
- SDSU has fired 420 3-pointers this season, up from 310 3-point attempts through 16Â games last season.
- Those 420 3-point attempts represent 50.1 percent of SDSU's 838 total field goal attempts.
- As of Dec. 29, the Jacks rank fifth in NCAA Division I in 3-point attempts (420), are sixth nationally in 3-pointers made (145) and are shooting at 34.5 percent beyond the arc.
- South Dakota State set a new school record for 3-point field goal attempts in a single game on Nov. 19, 2016 at Wyoming, firing 37 shots from beyond the arc. The previous record was 33, set twice, last at Oakland on Jan. 26, 2012.
- The Jacks tied the previously set record for 3-point attempts against Idaho, Nov. 21, and set a new record for made 3-pointers in that game, knocking down 16. The previous mark was 15, set at Oakland on Dec. 31, 2008.
- Three times this season the Jacks have seen four players reach double figures. The Jacks last did it Dec. 19 at Drake when Mike Daum (20), Andre Wallace (19), Reed Tellinghuisen (18) and A.J. Hess (10) all scored about the 10-point mark.
- Twice this season South Dakota State has had two players score over 20 points in the same game. A.J. Hess (31) and Mike Daum (23) score 20-plus in a loss for the first time since Feb. 10, 2016 at Omaha when Daum and Reed Tellinghuisen reached that mark. On Dec. 3 against Kansas City, Andre Wallace (21) and Daum (22) broke the 20-point mark in a win for the first time since Daum and George Marshall did it on Feb. 13, 2016 against South Dakota.
- Five different players hit double figures for SDSU in the win over Minnesota Crookston on Nov. 30, 2016. The last time that happened was Jan. 1, 2016 against Denver.
- Entering the Nov. 30 game with Minnesota Crookston, the most assists an SDSU player had in a game was six this season. Sergio El Darwich matched that in the opening half against UMC and finished ith eight for the night.
- Over a span of three games from Nov. 21 to Nov. 26, South Dakota State saw A.J. Hess, Reed Tellinghuisen and Mike Daum all reach double figures and score a majority of SDSU's points. Of the 200 points SDSU scored in those games, the three Jackrabbits had 161, or 80.5 percent of the points. Daum scored 63 points in that stretch (31.5 percent), Hess had 57 points (28.5 percent) and Tellinghuisen had 41 points (20.5 percent). Mike Daum posted his first-ever 30-point game against Milwaukee on Nov. 27, finishing with 32 points off of 10-for-13 shooting in the field and an 11-for-13 effort from the charity stripe. Daum also dished out a career-high six assists.
- A.J. Hess' 16 first half points against Idaho was tied for the most from a Jackrabbit in a period this season, matching Mike Daum's 16 first half points at Wyoming.
- A.J. Hess put together SDSU's first 30-point game at Idaho (scoring 31) since Nov. 26, 2013 when Jordan Dykstra had 32 against Lehigh. Mike Daum recorded SDSU's second 30-point game of the season on Nov. 27, finishing with 32 against Milwaukee and has hit the mark two other times this season.
- Reed Tellinghuisen has hit double figures in 11 of 16 games this season, pushing his career mark in that category to 42 games with double figures. Tellinghuisen is second on the active career scoring list.
- After a slow start to the season where A.J. Hess scored just 11 points total in the first four games, the graduate transfer has raised his average to 10.0 points per game with eight double figure scoring games. Hess has reached the 10-point mark in the last four games and is averaging 2.8 3-point field goals per contest with a 90.9 percent mark on free throws (averaged 2.0 per game).Â
Team Quick Hits
- The Jackrabbits were whistled for only 10 fouls on Nov. 30 against UMC and on Dec. 16 versus Murray State, and only eight on Nov. 27 against Milwaukee. The Jacks have been whistled for less than 15 personal fouls 10 times this season.Â
- The Jacks are fifth nationally with just 14.8 personal fouls per game.
- At least one Jackrabbit has scored in double figures over the last 292 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 3-pointer in 320 games. The last time the Jackrabbits did not make a 3-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. SDSU has now gone 85 games without a 1,000 point scorer. Mike Daum is currently 129 points away from scoring 1,000 for his career.
- The last time SDSU went 0-2 to open the year was 2014-15 when the squad finished with a 24-11 overall record and was a Summit League regular season co-champion.
- SDSU is 91-18 all-time in home openers (where records available). Dating back to 2004-05, SDSU's first year of DI transition, SDSU is 11-2. Since joining the Summit League in 2007-08, SDSU is 9-2 in home openers.
- SDSU is now 72-39 in season-openers all-time. The Jacks are 5-8 in season-opening games at the Division I level.
Jackrabbits' Last Time Out -- Dec. 28, 2016
  South Dakota State opened Summit League play with an 80-69 loss to North Dakota State as its 34-game home winning streak came to an end Wednesday evening at Frost Arena.
SDSU (7-9, 0-1 Summit League) lead by 15 early in the second half but a charging NDSU (9-5, 1-0 Summit League) team used a cold spell to end the Jacks' streak.Â
  Mike Daum led the way with 24 points for the Jackrabbits and added eight rebounds, second on the boards behind A.J. Hess, who grabbed 10 rebounds. Skyler Flatten and Tevin King each had 11 points for the Jacks while Michael Orris finished with six points, six rebounds and four assists.
  Five Bison scored in double figures as Paul Miller paced NDSU with 21 points and 10 rebounds. Dexter Warner had a double-double as well, finishing with 10 points and 14 rebounds.
  Trailing 4-2 in the opening two minutes, the Jackrabbits opened up an 13-4 lead with a run of 11 unanswered as NDSU went nearly seven minutes without a point. A free throw from NDSU's Khy Kabellis ended SDSU's run at 12:10, and the Bison clawed back to within three (13-10) over the next minute with a run of their own.
  SDSU stretched its lead back to seven (20-13) after a fast break layup from Andre Wallace off a Tevin King assist at 8:02, but saw the Bison hang within single digits until 2:45 when a putback layup from Daum gave SDSU a 30-19 lead.
  The final 92 seconds of the first saw the Jacks end the half on a 7-0 run and went to the locker room ahead, 37-22.
  South Dakota State shot 46.2 percent from the field in the opening half while NDSU hit only 30 percent of its shots and went 3 of 18 beyond the arc. The Jackrabbits held a plus-11 (25-14) lead in rebounding margin at the break and outscored NDSU in the paint, 18-10, behind Daum's game-high first half points.
  The teams traded baskets through the first two minutes of the second as SDSU's lead stayed at 15 (44-29) before the Bison ran off six straight to draw back within single digits, 44-35, at 16:46.Â
  Daum hit a 3-pointer on the other end to end the run, and after a Reed Tellinghuisen block on the defensive end, an old-fashioned 3-point play from King negated NDSU's rally and moved SDSU's lead back to 15 (50-35), after the under-16 media.
  A cold streak hit the Jackrabbits soon after as the team went over nine minutes without a field goal and NDSU climbed back to take a 58-55 lead with 8:36 to play after scoring 15 unanswered.Â
  King's free throws at 7:54 ended a scoreless stretch of over five minutes for the Jacks, but the field goal struggles didn't end until 5:10 when Flatten hit a 3-pointer to put SDSU down four, 65-61. NDSU, however, continued to hit shots to keep SDSU at bay down the stretch and the Jacks saw the nation's second longest active streak come to an end.
Coyotes' Last Time Out -- Dec. 29, 2016
(GoYotes.com)
  VERMILLION, S.D.—South Dakota made a strong opening statement to Summit League play with an 86-69, start-to-finish drubbing of Omaha Thursday inside Sanford Coyote Sports Center. It was the team's largest margin of victory in a conference game in four seasons.
  Trey Dickerson scored a season-high 17 points while Matt Mooney and Tyler Flack added 16 each as the Coyotes (10-6, 1-0 Summit) improved to 7-0 in their new facility. It was the team's first 1-0 start to Summit play in three seasons.
  Omaha (7-7, 0-1), which entered the game with the highest non-conference RPI amongst Summit League teams, trailed 29-9 with less than seven minutes to go in the first half and never recovered. The Mavericks had six field goals in the first half, were 0 for 7 from downtown, and committed 11 turnovers in trailing 45-23 at the break. Zach Jackson led UNO with 14 points.
  South Dakota in the first half shot 51 percent from the field, buried half the team's season-high 10 triples, and had a rebounding edge of nine. Dickerson and Mooney combined to equal the Mavs halftime total of 23 points. Dickerson had back-to-back drives to the hoop to spark an 8-0 run to start the game. Mooney hit three 3's in a four-minute stretch in the later part of the half and had 13 in the first.
  Most of Flack's performance came near the midway point of the second half when he scored 10 unanswered points and 12 in a row for South Dakota in a span of two minutes. He had just reentered the game after taking a spill that forced him to the athletic training room when he hit his first 3 since November. He followed that with a three-point play, back-to-back mid-range jumpers, and then a high-flying dunk on an assist from Trey Burch-Manning that put USD ahead 75-49 with eight minutes to go.
  The Coyotes finished 32 of 66 from the field (.485) which included a 10 of 18 performance from downtown. Burch-Manning had 11 rebounds, five offensive, to go with six points. Carlton Hurst had a pair of dunks as part of his 7-point, 6-rebound effort. True freshmen Triston Simpson and Tyler Peterson scored seven points apiece off South Dakota's bench. Mooney was credited with seven steals, the most by a Coyote in 13 years.
  Omaha's all-Summit League guard Tra-Deon Hollins had five points, four assists and five turnovers. Preseason all-Summit pick Tre-Shawn Thurman had nine points on 3 of 9 shooting. Marcus Tyus, who has a 37- and a 33-point performance to his credit this year, had nine points on seven free throws and one field goal in 12 attempts.
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.
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
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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