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South Dakota State University Athletics
Wednesday, December 7
Cedar Falls, Iowa
7 p.m.
South Dakota State University
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Northern Iowa
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Jackrabbits travel to UNI Wednesday
12/5/2016 3:15:00 PM | Men's Basketball
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The Setup
South Dakota State hits the road for its first road game of the month Wednesday, traveling to Cedar Falls, Iowa to face Northern Iowa at 7 p.m., inside the McLeod Center. SDSU has won three straight while UNI has fallen in four consecutive games.
Scouting the Panthers
Zoned In
After allowing 80.0 points per game over its first five contests, South Dakota State made a switch to a primarily zone defense before the Sanford Pentagon Showcase, and in the five games since have allowed opponents to score just 63.6 points per game. Twice in that span, SDSU held its opponent to under 60 points and allowed over 70 points just once. As well, the defense has forced 82 turnovers in the last five games after only 57 opponent turnovers in the opening five games.
Heating Up
After shooting just 34.3 percent from the field with 65.4 points per game through the first seven games of the season, SDSU is hitting at a rate of 61.4 percent on field goals over its last three contests. The Jacks have shot well over 50 percent from the field in all three and are outscoring opponents by 21.4 ponts per game in that stretch.
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 20.2 points and 8.6 rebounds per contest so far this year.Â
#FearFrost
From Long Range
Player Quick Hits
Team Quick Hits
Jackrabbits' Last Time Out -- Nov. 30, 2016
  South Dakota State men's basketball shook off a slow start to win its 32nd consecutive home game, taking down the UMKC Kangaroos, 77-68, on Saturday morning inside Frost Arena.
  SDSU (4-6) won its third consecutive game while snapping a three-game UMKC (6-3) winning streak. The Jacks shot 56.3 from the field for the game, adding eight 3-pointers and a 15 of 24 effort from the free throw line. UMKC was held under 40 percent (37.9), going 22 of 58 from the field with 13 3-pointers.
  Mike Daum led the way with 22 points while Andre Wallace added 23 points for the Jackrabbits. Wallace hit four from 3-point land and grabbed three rebounds with two assists over 28 minutes. Daum just missed a double-double, pulling down nine boards while going a perfect 9 of 9 from the charity stripe.Â
   Skyler Flatten found double figures as well in the points column, shooting 4 of 6 from the field to finish with 11 points in 23 minutes played.
  Sergio El Darwich and Reed Tellinghuisen dished out four assists each as Tellinghuisen added eight points and rebounds and drew five charges on the defensive end.
  UMKC took a 6-0 lead in the opening minute of play with a pair of 3-pointers before an SDSU timeout, and though the Jacks got on the board after a timeout, the Kangaroos continued to light up the nets from the beyond the arc, extending the lead to 14-2 at the under-16 media with four 3-pointers in the opening moments.
  SDSU's offense matched the UMKC effort over the next five minutes until 10:54, when down 20-7 the Jacks ran off eight unanswered as part of a 12-3 run that brought SDSU within four, 23-19, with 8:10 to go in the half. Andre Wallace carried the Jacks with nine points in that stretch off the bench.
  The 'Roos moved that lead back to nine, 28-19, moments later before eight unanswered, including a dunk and 3-pointer from Skyler Flatten, put SDSU down just one, 28-27, inside five minutes to go in the half. UMKC called timeout and ended the run with a 3-pointer on the next possession, but a charging Jackrabbit offense hung around and took its first lead of the day, 32-31, with just over two minutes on the clock after Wallace's second 3-pointer of the half. That score held over the final two minutes as the SDSU defense kept UMKC from scoring over the final four minutes of the opening period in the midst of a 13-3 run heading into the locker room.
  After Wallace's layup inside 11 minutes to go started the Jackrabbit rally, SDSU closed the half on a 25-11 run and carried advantages of 16-4 for points in the paint and 16-11 for points off of turnovers into the locker room.
  The team started just three of 9 from the field but ended the period shooting 54.2 percent (13 of 24) with four 3-pointers. UMKC opened the game seven of 14 from the field with four 3-pointers before finishing the half at just 37.9 percent (11 of 29) from the field with seven 3-pointers.
  SDSU stretched its lead to nine (43-34) in the opening three minutes of the game on an 11-3 run that finished with a trey from A.J. Hess before UMKC hit a pair of free throws at 16:51, ending a stretch of nearly three scoreless minutes for the 'Roos.
  UMKC looked to answer by cutting the lead to six (45-39) with 16 minutes to play, but a baseline dunk from Daum opened another run for the Jacks that moved the lead to double figures for the first time of the day, 52-41, at 14:20.
  Soon after, a pesky Kangaroo offense brought the game back within five before Wallace's fourth trey of the day opened up a 15-5 burst that ended with seven unanswered as UMKC was held without a point from 10:50 to 7:57.Â
  Up 69-54 before LaVell Boyd's free throws stopped the cold streak, and that 15-point lead was SDSU's largest of the night as UMKC closed the gap to single digits near the 6-minute mark despite not hitting a field goal for over six minutes as the game moved inside four minutes to play.Â
  Down the stretch, UMKC hung around within single digits to kept the Jacks uncomfortable, but the SDSU zone continued to frustrate and held off any serious charge from the Kangaroos.
Panthers' Last Time Out -- Dec. 3, 2016
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  LARAMIE, Wyo. - The Wyoming Cowboys won a three-point shootout over the University of Northern Iowa men's basketball team Saturday in the Arena-Auditorium in the Missouri Valley/Mountain West Challenge, 81-73.
  The Cowboys drained 16 three-pointers in the matchup, while the Panthers were able to knock in 10 from distance. The Cowboys buried 10-of-15 three-pointer in the second half as they rallied from a seven-point deficit with 17:05 left in the game.
  UNI's Jeremy Morgan reached the 20-point mark for the third time this season as he made 8-of-15 shots from the field. Spencer Haldeman chipped in 18 points off the bench - all in the second half. Jordan Ashton tallied his first career double-double with 14 points and 12 rebounds.
  The Panthers trailed 20-9 with 9:01 left in the first half before putting together a 17-3 run that gave UNI a 26-23 advantage with 3:39 left before halftime. UNI and Wyoming were tied at the intermission, 28-28.
  UNI moved out a 38-31 lead three minutes into the second half. Wyoming clawed back with a 7-0 run to tie it again at 38-38. UNI had a 62-58 lead following a three-pointer by Morgan with 6:23 left in the game. However, UNI would not make a field goal until Juwan McCloud drained a three-pointer withi 25.6 seconds left. While the Panthers could not buy a field goal, Wyoming was taking a 78-65 lead with 30 seconds remaining in the contest.
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.
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 hits the road for its first road game of the month Wednesday, traveling to Cedar Falls, Iowa to face Northern Iowa at 7 p.m., inside the McLeod Center. SDSU has won three straight while UNI has fallen in four consecutive games.
Scouting the Panthers
- UNI enters Wednesday's game with a 3-4 record and carries a four-game losing streak into the contest.
- The Panthers are coming off an 81-73 loss at Wyoming last Saturday aftter a home loss to George Mason and back-to-back losses to Xavier at neutral and away sites closed the month of November.Â
- This is the 88th meeting all-time between the two schools and the first since 2014-15, when UNI defeated the Jackrabbits, 74-63, in Cedar Falls. In its Division I era, SDSU trails UNI, 3-1, in the series. The Jacks hold a 51-36 advantage all-time.
- Jeremy Morgan (14.7 ppg) and Klint Carlson (11.2 ppg) are averaging double figures for the Panthers, while Morgan leads the team in rebounds (7.5), blocks (2.3) and steals (3.8) per game and Carlson has dished out a team-high 18 assists (3.0 per game).
- Big man Bennett Koch, the younger brother of former UNI standouts Jake and Adam Koch, is averaging 9.8 points per game over five games, missing Saturday's contest at Idaho due to illness.
- The Panthers are averaging 63.3 points per game and allowing 57.7 points on average, shooting 40.2 percent from the field while opponents are firing at 38.4 percent on field goals through six games.
- On the boards, UNI is minus-7.7 in rebounding margin (30.8 to 38.5) as a team.
- UNI was seeded 11th in last year's NCAA Tournament and reached the second round after an upset over sixth-seeded Texas in the opening round.
- The McLeod Center was finished before the 2006-07 season for the Panthers, and UNI boasts a 125-32 (.796) mark inside the building. The Panthers went 15-0 at home in 2014-15 and 11-3 last season. This year, UNI is 1-1 at home.
Zoned In
After allowing 80.0 points per game over its first five contests, South Dakota State made a switch to a primarily zone defense before the Sanford Pentagon Showcase, and in the five games since have allowed opponents to score just 63.6 points per game. Twice in that span, SDSU held its opponent to under 60 points and allowed over 70 points just once. As well, the defense has forced 82 turnovers in the last five games after only 57 opponent turnovers in the opening five games.
Heating Up
After shooting just 34.3 percent from the field with 65.4 points per game through the first seven games of the season, SDSU is hitting at a rate of 61.4 percent on field goals over its last three contests. The Jacks have shot well over 50 percent from the field in all three and are outscoring opponents by 21.4 ponts per game in that stretch.
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 20.2 points and 8.6 rebounds per contest so far this year.Â
- Daum has hit double figures in nine of 10 games this season and has scored at least 20 in six contests.
- 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.
- Daum recorded back-to-back double-doubles against UC Irvine and East Tennessee State at the Sanford Pentagon Showcase, March 25-26.
- 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.
- Daum now has five career double-doubles and 13 career games with 20-plus points. He has hit the 20-point mark in back-to-back games six times, including a stretch of four straight games this season and a stretch of three straight last season.
- 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.
#FearFrost
- The Jacks own a 65-3 record at Frost Arena over the last five seasons, which includes perfect home records in four of the last five years and the last two with a 3-0 record thus far in 2016-17. That span includes two home winning streaks of 30 or more games.
- SDSU is currently on a 32-game home winning streak, which is the second longest active streak at the Division I level as of Dec. 3, after Kentucky saw its 42-game home winning streak end against UCLA.The nation's longest active home winning streaks can be found on page four of the game notes.
- SDSU won 30 consecutive home games from Jan. 29, 2011 to Nov. 14, 2013.
- SDSU completed its sixth perfect season inside Frost Arena last year with a win over Oral Roberts on Feb. 27.
- 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), 2015-16 (12-0) and so far in 2016-17 (1-0).Â
From Long Range
- 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.
- SDSU has fired 273 3-pointers this season, up from 206 3-point attempts through 10 games last season and are taking 27.3 3-point attempts per game.
- Those 273 3-point attempts represent 51.7 percent of SDSU's 528 total field goal attempts.
- SDSU shot a season-high 57.1 percent (12-of-21) from long range against Minnesota Crookston after hitting 11-of-20 (55.0 percent) of its 3-pointers against Milwaukee in the game prior to that on Nov. 27.
Player Quick Hits
- 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.
- Reed Tellinghuisen has hit double figures in eight of 10 games this season, pushing his career mark in that category to 39 games with double figures. Tellinghuisen is 277 points away from joining the Jacks' 1,000 points club.
Team Quick Hits
- South Dakota State has rolled out five different starting lineups in 10 games this season.
- The Jackrabbits were whistled for only 10 fouls on Nov. 30 against UMC, which is the third time this season SDSU has had under 15 fouls called on them this season.
- At least one Jackrabbit has scored in double figures over the last 286 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 314 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. SDSU has now gone 79 games without a 1,000 point scorer.
- 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 -- Nov. 30, 2016
  South Dakota State men's basketball shook off a slow start to win its 32nd consecutive home game, taking down the UMKC Kangaroos, 77-68, on Saturday morning inside Frost Arena.
  SDSU (4-6) won its third consecutive game while snapping a three-game UMKC (6-3) winning streak. The Jacks shot 56.3 from the field for the game, adding eight 3-pointers and a 15 of 24 effort from the free throw line. UMKC was held under 40 percent (37.9), going 22 of 58 from the field with 13 3-pointers.
  Mike Daum led the way with 22 points while Andre Wallace added 23 points for the Jackrabbits. Wallace hit four from 3-point land and grabbed three rebounds with two assists over 28 minutes. Daum just missed a double-double, pulling down nine boards while going a perfect 9 of 9 from the charity stripe.Â
   Skyler Flatten found double figures as well in the points column, shooting 4 of 6 from the field to finish with 11 points in 23 minutes played.
  Sergio El Darwich and Reed Tellinghuisen dished out four assists each as Tellinghuisen added eight points and rebounds and drew five charges on the defensive end.
  UMKC took a 6-0 lead in the opening minute of play with a pair of 3-pointers before an SDSU timeout, and though the Jacks got on the board after a timeout, the Kangaroos continued to light up the nets from the beyond the arc, extending the lead to 14-2 at the under-16 media with four 3-pointers in the opening moments.
  SDSU's offense matched the UMKC effort over the next five minutes until 10:54, when down 20-7 the Jacks ran off eight unanswered as part of a 12-3 run that brought SDSU within four, 23-19, with 8:10 to go in the half. Andre Wallace carried the Jacks with nine points in that stretch off the bench.
  The 'Roos moved that lead back to nine, 28-19, moments later before eight unanswered, including a dunk and 3-pointer from Skyler Flatten, put SDSU down just one, 28-27, inside five minutes to go in the half. UMKC called timeout and ended the run with a 3-pointer on the next possession, but a charging Jackrabbit offense hung around and took its first lead of the day, 32-31, with just over two minutes on the clock after Wallace's second 3-pointer of the half. That score held over the final two minutes as the SDSU defense kept UMKC from scoring over the final four minutes of the opening period in the midst of a 13-3 run heading into the locker room.
  After Wallace's layup inside 11 minutes to go started the Jackrabbit rally, SDSU closed the half on a 25-11 run and carried advantages of 16-4 for points in the paint and 16-11 for points off of turnovers into the locker room.
  The team started just three of 9 from the field but ended the period shooting 54.2 percent (13 of 24) with four 3-pointers. UMKC opened the game seven of 14 from the field with four 3-pointers before finishing the half at just 37.9 percent (11 of 29) from the field with seven 3-pointers.
  SDSU stretched its lead to nine (43-34) in the opening three minutes of the game on an 11-3 run that finished with a trey from A.J. Hess before UMKC hit a pair of free throws at 16:51, ending a stretch of nearly three scoreless minutes for the 'Roos.
  UMKC looked to answer by cutting the lead to six (45-39) with 16 minutes to play, but a baseline dunk from Daum opened another run for the Jacks that moved the lead to double figures for the first time of the day, 52-41, at 14:20.
  Soon after, a pesky Kangaroo offense brought the game back within five before Wallace's fourth trey of the day opened up a 15-5 burst that ended with seven unanswered as UMKC was held without a point from 10:50 to 7:57.Â
  Up 69-54 before LaVell Boyd's free throws stopped the cold streak, and that 15-point lead was SDSU's largest of the night as UMKC closed the gap to single digits near the 6-minute mark despite not hitting a field goal for over six minutes as the game moved inside four minutes to play.Â
  Down the stretch, UMKC hung around within single digits to kept the Jacks uncomfortable, but the SDSU zone continued to frustrate and held off any serious charge from the Kangaroos.
Panthers' Last Time Out -- Dec. 3, 2016
(UNIPanthers.com)
  LARAMIE, Wyo. - The Wyoming Cowboys won a three-point shootout over the University of Northern Iowa men's basketball team Saturday in the Arena-Auditorium in the Missouri Valley/Mountain West Challenge, 81-73.
  The Cowboys drained 16 three-pointers in the matchup, while the Panthers were able to knock in 10 from distance. The Cowboys buried 10-of-15 three-pointer in the second half as they rallied from a seven-point deficit with 17:05 left in the game.
  UNI's Jeremy Morgan reached the 20-point mark for the third time this season as he made 8-of-15 shots from the field. Spencer Haldeman chipped in 18 points off the bench - all in the second half. Jordan Ashton tallied his first career double-double with 14 points and 12 rebounds.
  The Panthers trailed 20-9 with 9:01 left in the first half before putting together a 17-3 run that gave UNI a 26-23 advantage with 3:39 left before halftime. UNI and Wyoming were tied at the intermission, 28-28.
  UNI moved out a 38-31 lead three minutes into the second half. Wyoming clawed back with a 7-0 run to tie it again at 38-38. UNI had a 62-58 lead following a three-pointer by Morgan with 6:23 left in the game. However, UNI would not make a field goal until Juwan McCloud drained a three-pointer withi 25.6 seconds left. While the Panthers could not buy a field goal, Wyoming was taking a 78-65 lead with 30 seconds remaining in the contest.
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.
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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/ Men's BasketballFootball Postgame Comments at Murray State (10.18.2025)
Saturday, October 18
Jackrabbit Sports Network Booth Cam - Murray State (10.18.2025)
Saturday, October 18
Football Highlights at Murray State (10.18.2025)
Saturday, October 18
Gameday Eve - Murray State (10.17.2025)
Friday, October 17