Jacks, Bison set for playoff rematch

Saturday, December 10

Fargo, N.D.

11 a.m.

South Dakota State University

North Dakota State

Photo by: Inertia Sports Media/Dave Eggen

12/7/2016 9:12:00 AM | Football

SDSU Football Notes, 12-6-16

The South Dakota State University football team will make its first-ever appearance in the Football Championship Subdivision quarterfinals Saturday, when it travels to Fargo, North Dakota, for a matchup against fellow Missouri Valley Football Conference co-champion North Dakota State.
Kickoff is slated for 11:05 a.m. at the Fargodome. The game will be televised on ESPN and also available for viewing on ESPN3 and the WatchESPN app.
Radio coverage on the Jackrabbit Sports Network begins at 10 a.m. Central Time.
The eighth-seeded Jackrabbits advanced to the quarterfinals with a hard-fought 10-7 victory over Villanova on Dec. 3 at Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium to improve to 9-3 overall.
Top-seeded and five-time defending FCS champion North Dakota State upped its record to 11-1 with a convincing 45-7 victory over San Diego in second-round action Dec. 3.
SDSU handed the Bison their only loss of the 2016 season, winning 19-17 Oct. 15 in Fargo on a 2-yard touchdown pass from Taryn Christion to Jake Wieneke with one second remaining.

THE SERIES: Saturday's game will mark the 106th matchup on the gridiron between South Dakota State and North Dakota State, a series that dates back to an 85-0 Bison win in Fargo in 1903. NDSU leads the overall series by a 59-41-5 count.
The two schools were both charter members of the North Central Conference, meeting every year from 1919 through 1942 until play was interrupted by World War II. The series resumed in 1946 and the two squads have met every year since as the schools made the move to Division I competition together in 2004.
SDSU's victory over the Bison in the 2016 regular season matchup ended an eight-game North Dakota State winning streak in the series. The Bison streak included FCS playoff victories in both 2012 (28-3) and 2014 (27-24).

PLAYOFF HISTORY: South Dakota State is making its fifth consecutive appearance in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs and sixth overall. The Jackrabbits made their first playoff appearance in 2009 and has been in the tournament field every year since 2012, winning first-round playoff games in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
Overall, SDSU has a 4-5 record in the FCS playoffs, with seven of the nine previous matchups taking place against either Big Sky or Missouri Valley Football Conference opponents. The 2016 season marks the first time the Jackrabbits have received a first-round bye.
SDSU's 10-7 win over Villanova on Dec. 3 marked only the second time the Jackrabbits hosted a playoff game. The Jackrabbits are now 2-0 in home playoff games after previously routing Eastern Illinois, 58-10, in opening-round action in 2012 at Coughlin-Alumni Stadium.
Prior to moving to Division I and the Football Championship Subdivision in 2004, SDSU made only one appearance in the NCAA Division II playoffs (1979).

ELITE COMPANY: South Dakota State is one of four Football Championship Subdivision programs to reach the playoffs each of the last five seasons.
The three other programs to play in the postseason each year since 2012 include:
• New Hampshire
• North Dakota State
• Sam Houston State (Texas)

TITLE RUN: South Dakota State earned a share of its first-ever Missouri Valley Football Conference title with a 45-24 road win at Northern Iowa in the regular season finale on Nov. 19. The Jackrabbits also matched their best record in league play of 7-1, which was first accomplished in 2009. By virtue of their regular season win over co-champion North Dakota State on Oct. 15, the Jackrabbits were awarded the MVFC's automatic bid to the FCS playoffs.
SDSU's last conference title in football came in 2007, when it won the Great West Football Conference championship.

NINE-WIN SEASONS: South Dakota State is in search of its first 10-win season in program history. The Jackrabbits have reached the nine-win mark for the seventh time overall and the fourth time in five years.
Other nine-win seasons include:
1928: 9-1
1963: 9-1
1979: 9-3
2012: 9-4
2013: 9-5
2014: 9-5

CAPTAINS: Leading the Jackrabbit football team on the field and in the locker room are six captains:
• Jesse Bobbit, Sr., linebacker, Palatine, Ill.;
• Shayne Gottlob, Sr., defensive tackle, Salem, S.D.;
• Zach Lujan, Sr., quarterback, Anchorage, Alaska;
• Nick Mears, Sr., safety, Milbank, S.D.;
• Brady Mengarelli, Jr., running back, Prescott, Ariz.;
• Jacob Ohnesorge, Jr., offensive lineman, Waunakee, Wis.
Lujan and Ohnesorge have each been selected as a team captain for the second season. Ohnesorge has started all 38 games at center over the past three seasons.

RABBITS RANKED: For the third time in four years, the South Dakota State University football team entered a season with a top-10 national ranking.
The Jackrabbits checked in at No. 8 in the preseason STATS FCS Poll. SDSU, which posted an 8-4 overall record in 2015 and made its fourth consecutive appearance in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs, returns 15 starters. SDSU also was recognized in the FCS Coaches' Preseason Poll with a 14th-place showing.
In the latest national rankings, released Nov. 21, the Jackrabbits moved up in all three major FCS polls, gaining one spot to seventh in both the STATS and HERO Sports media polls, while moving up three spots to seventh in the FCS coaches' rankings.
Following is a look at the Jackrabbits' rankings so far this season:

VERSUS RANKED OPPONENTS: Since moving to the Football Championship Subdivision in 2004, the Jackrabbits have posted a 27-37 overall record against ranked FCS opponents. SDSU is 4-0 against ranked FCS opponents during the 2016 season, defeating Western Illinois, North Dakota State, Youngstown State and Villanova.

ROZEBOOM RUNNER-UP FOR RICE: South Dakota State University linebacker Christian Rozeboom finished as runner-up in the voting for the 2016 STATS FCS Jerry Rice Award, which is presented to the top freshman in the Football Championship Subdivision.
A national panel of more than 150 sports information and media relations directors, broadcasters, writers and other dignitaries voted on the Rice Award, which had 23 finalists from 12 FCS conferences. Duquesne running back A.J. Hines won the award by a single vote over Rozeboom, 333-332, but garnered 30 first-place votes compared to Rozeboom's 22. Hines will receive the award Jan. 6, 2017, in Frisco, Texas, on the eve of the FCS national championship game.
A redshirt freshman from Sioux Center, Iowa, Rozeboom completed the 11-game regular season schedule with a team-best 107 total tackles, including five tackles for loss and three sacks. The Missouri Valley Football Conference Freshman of the Year and a first-team all-conference selection, Rozeboom registered double figures in tackles in five games, while adding two interceptions, two pass breakups and two forced fumbles.
Rozeboom is the second Jackrabbit to finish second in the voting for the Jerry Rice Award in three years. Wide receiver Jake Wieneke was runner-up in 2014, while quarterback Austin Sumner finished third in 2011.
In other balloting for FCS awards, three Jackrabbits finished in the top 14 for the 2016 STATS Walter Payton Award. Sophomore quarterback Taryn Christion was the top-vote getter among the Jackrabbit trio by finishing seventh with 74 points. Wieneke was 10th with 55 points, including one first-place vote, and junior tight end Dallas Goedert was 14th with 32 points and one first-place vote.

COACH STIG HONORED BY AFCA: South Dakota State University head football coach John Stiegelmeier has added to his list of coaching awards during the 2016 season by being named Football Championship Subdivision Region 4 Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches Association.
Named earlier as the Bruce Craddock Missouri Valley Football Conference Coach of the Year, Stiegelmeier guided the Jackrabbits to a share of their first MVFC title in program history with a 7-1 mark in league play during the 2016 regular season. SDSU also qualified for the FCS playoffs for the fifth consecutive year and earned a first-round bye after posting an 8-3 record during the regular season.
It is the second time Stiegelmeier has earned a regional coach of the year award from the AFCA. In 2007, he earned AFCA FCS Region 5 Coach of the Year honors after leading the Jackrabbits to the Great West Football Conference title.
Now in his 20th season as head coach at SDSU, Stiegelmeier has compiled a 137-93 overall record (.596 winning percentage), making him the winningest coach in program history. He has led the Jackrabbits to six postseason appearances and a winning record in 16 of 20 seasons, including 11 of 13 at the Division I level.
The 2016 FBS and FCS Regional Coach of the Year winners will be recognized at the inaugural American Football Coaches Awards, televised live on CBS Sports Network on Jan. 10, 2017, at 8 p.m. Central.
The AFCA recognizes five regional Coach of the Year winners in each of the Association's five divisions: Football Bowl Subdivision, Football Championship Subdivision, Division II, Division III and NAIA. The winners are selected by active members of the association who vote for coaches in their respective regions and divisions.

CHRISTION RACKING UP YARDS: SDSU quarterback Taryn Christion completed a memorable month of October with three games of 400-plus yards of total offense. A sophomore from Sioux Falls, Christion set a new Jackrabbit now holds the top three single-game total offense outputs in program history — all of which have come in road games. Those performances include:
• 475 yards (school-record 466 passing, 9 rushing) at Southern Illinois, 10-8-16
• 456 yards (430 passing, 26 rushing) at Illinois State, 10-29-16
• 444 yards (303 passing, career-high 141 rushing) at North Dakota State, 10-15-16
Christion set a new Jackrabbit single-season record for total offense in the Nov. 5 game against Missouri State and has now tallied 3,754 yards (3,369 passing, 385 rushing). With 30 touchdown passes thus far in 2016, Christion has tied Ryan Berry's single-season school record first set in 2008. He also has set SDSU single-season records for completions (266) and passing attempts (417) this season.
In the latest NCAA statistics, Christion ranks in the top 10 in eight different offensive categories, His 30 passing touchdowns, 3,559 passing yards and average of 325.8 yards of total offense per game all rank fourth among FCS quarterbacks.

TWO FOR 1,000: The Jackrabbit receiving duo of Dallas Goedert and Jake Wieneke each reached the 1,000-yard mark for receiving in the Jackrabbits' victory over Missouri State on Nov. 5, becoming the first pair of teammates to reach the plateau in the same season in program history.
Goedert and Wieneke each recorded 100-plus yards receiving in the same game for the sixth time this season in the Nov. 5 win over Missouri State. Wieneke's 1,241 receiving yards this season rank fourth in program history and give him three of the top four single-season receiving yardage totals among Jackrabbits. Goedert's 1,238 yards receiving rank fifth in a single season.
The tandem also rank seventh and eighth, respectively, in the FCS ranks in 2016.

ANOTHER DYNAMIC DUO: For the third time in the Division I era of Jackrabbit footbal, the South Dakota State University defense features two players with 100 or more tackles in the same season.
Freshman Christian Rozeboom leads the team with 120 tackles through 12 games, while Jesse Bobbit reached the century mark in the Dec. 3 playoff game against Villanova and enters Saturday's matchup at North Dakota State with 105 stops. Rozeboom has tallied double figures for tackles in a game six times this season, while Bobbit has registered 10 or more tackles five times in 2016.
The two other times since 2004 that two Jackrabbits registered more than 100 tackles in the same season were 2007 (Jimmy Rogers 110, Chris Johnson 106) and 2012 (Ross Shafrath 150, T.J. Lally 107). Rogers is currently the Jackrabbits' linebackers coach.

ONE FOR THE RECORD BOOKS: Junior tight end Dallas Goedert tied a 67-year-old single-game school record with his four touchdown receptions Oct. 1 against Western Illinois. Don Bartlett had held the record all by himself since catching four touchdown passes against North Dakota State in 1949.
Goedert had his streak of seven consecutive games with a touchdown reception dating back to a 2015 FCS playoff game at Montana end in the Oct. 22 game against Youngstown State. He ranks 17th in the FCS?with 10 touchdown receptions so far this season and added his first career rushing touchdown in the Oct. 8 win at Southern Illinois.
In addition, Goedert currently leads all Division I tight ends in receiving yards in 2016, with 1,238 yards on a school-record 86 catches.

CHRISTION'S STRING ENDS: South Dakota State quarterback Taryn Christion had his streak of consecutive passes thrown without an interception end on his final attempt of the Jackrabbits' game against Cal Poly on Sept. 17. Christion did not throw an interception in his first 90 attempts of the 2016 season and had his streak grow to 133 attempts dating back to the 2015 campaign.
The longest streak on record for consecutive attempts without an interception by a Jackrabbit quarterback is 155 by Brad Nelson between the 2003 (last 143 passes) and 2004 (first 12 passes) seasons.

SOULEK RACKS UP SACKS: Junior defensive tackle Kellen Soulek recorded the third two-sack game of the season Nov. 12 against South Dakota. The Yankton native upped his team-leading sack total to seven after also notching two sacks in wins at Southern Illinois and against Youngstown State.

GROUND GAME COMES ALIVE: When the calendar flipped to November, the South Dakota State offense was powered by a strong running game. Twelve of the 18 touchdowns the Jackrabbits scored n three games during the month were rushing touchdowns, including three each by Isaac Wallace, Taryn Christion and Kyle Paris.
SDSU tallied a combined 762 rushing yards (254 yards per game) in wins over Missouri State, South Dakota and Northern Iowa, including a season-best 415 yards against its in-state rivals. That rushing output was the most by a Jackrabbit team since racking up 434 yards against Eastern Illinois in a Football Championship Subdivision playoff game in 2012. The 2012 playoff game also marked the last time before the Nov. 12 game that the Jackrabbits had two backs go over 100 yards in the same game as Brady Mengarelli (161 yards) and Wallace (102) accomplished the feat against South Dakota.
The Jackrabbits recorded 12 rushes of 10 yards or more against USD, including seven that went for 20-plus yards.

HALFTIME ADJUSTMENTS: South Dakota State has dominated the third quarter of games this season, outscoring the opposition by a 122-56 margin through 12 games. The Jackrabbits had scored a touchdown in the third quarter of every game this season until the Dec. 3 FCS playoff game against Villanova. SDSU has blanked its opponents seven times in the third quarters of games this season, including a 24-0 advantage Oct. 1 against Western Illinois and a 21-0 spread Nov. 5 versus Missouri State.

TURNOVER MARGIN: Since the start of the 2015 season, South Dakota State has been one of the top teams in the Football Championship Subdivision when it comes to hanging on to the football. The Jackrabbits ranked second in the FCS with only 11 turnovers last season (9 interceptions, 2 fumbles) and are seventh in the FCS for the fewest in the subdivision so far in 2016 with 12 turnovers (8 INTs, 4 fumbles).
Conversely, SDSU forced 16 turnovers last season (10 interceptions and 6 fumbles) and has 22 takeaways (15 interceptions, 7 fumble recoveries) so far this season.
The Jackrabbits forced a season-high four turnovers — three interceptions and one fumble recovery — Nov. 19 at Northern Iowa.

MANY HAPPY RETURNS: South Dakota State scored in all three phases of the game in its 56-28 victory over Drake on Sept. 10. The Jackrabbit defense posted a touchdown late in the third quarter as defensive end Jared Blum intercepted a screen pass at the Drake 3-yard line and scored.
In the fourth quarter, reserve linebacker Cody Hazelett blocked a punt, which Jake Harms picked up at the Drake 2-yard line and ran in for a touchdown. It was the first time SDSU scored on a blocked punt in any game since 2009, and in a home game for the first time since 1993.
The Jackrabbits' three interceptions marked their most in a game since picking off three passes in a 31-28 win at Northern Iowa on Oct. 18, 2014.

PICK-SIX TIMES FOUR: South Dakota State defenders have returned four interceptions for touchdowns during the 2016 season. Two of those pick-six returns came in a 52-14 victory over Western Illinois on Oct. 1, marking the first time the Jackrabbits returned two interceptions for scores in the same game since a Nov. 10, 2007, contest against Southern Utah. Both of the interception returns came in the third quarter — 37 yards by Christian Rozeboom and 19 yards by Dallas Brown.
Jared Blum (3 yards versus Drake) and Kellen Soulek (65 yards against Northern Iowa) have the two other interception returns for touchdowns.
The Jackrabbits' 14 interceptions as a team so far this season have come from nine different players. Senior linebacker Dallas Brown leads the team with three interceptions.

A NEW LOW: The 10 points scored by the Jackrabbits in their second-round playoff victory over Villanova on Dec. 3 marked the fewest points SDSU has scored in a win since moving to the Football Championship Subdivision in 2004. The previous low point total in a Jackrabbit victory was a dozen in a 12-8 home win over UC Davis on Sept. 15, 2012.

FAMILY TRADITION: Redshirt freshman kicker Chase Vinatieri turned in an impressive collegiate debut against TCU on Sept. 3 to lead the Jackrabbits' special teams unit.
The nephew of former Jackrabbit and current Indianapolis Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri, Chase Vinatieri connected on field goals of 25 and 37 yards, and made all five of his extra-point tries, for 11 points.
For the season, Chase Vinatieri has made 10-of-16 field goal tries, including the game-winning 40-yard field goal Dec. 3 against Villanova in the Jackrabbits' playoff opener. He also has made all 55 extra-point attempts to rank second on the team with 85 points. Vinatieri's 55 PATs (in 55 attempts) has set a new single-season school record, eclipsing the previous mark of 50 PATs (in 50 attempts) by All-American Justin Syrovatka during the 2014 season.
During his career at SDSU from 1991-94, Adam Vinatieri made a then-school-record 27 field goals and was a NCAA Division II All-American as a punter his senior season.

JACKRABBIT BLOODLINES: Senior defensive tackle Cole Langer leads a group of South Dakota State football players with Jackrabbit bloodlines.
Langer, a native of Dell Rapids, South Dakota, is a third-generation Jackrabbit student-athlete. His grandfather, Jim Langer, is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame after a standout career with the Miami Dolphins and Minnesota Vikings. The starting center for the undefeated Dolphins team in 1972, Jim Langer earned all-conference honors in football at South Dakota State as a linebacker in 1969 and was an All-America selection in baseball as an outfielder that same year.
In addition, Cole Langer's father, Tracy, was an all-conference catcher in baseball for the Jackrabbits from 1989-92. Tracy's brothers, Craig and Russ, also played baseball at South Dakota State.
Several other Jackrabbits have extensive Jackrabbit bloodlines, including senior offensive lineman Seth Lansman, whose parents are both former SDSU student-athletes. Lansman's father, Howard, lettered in football from 1984-85, while his mother, Tara (Tessier) was a standout women's basketball player from 1985-88. Tara Lansman was inducted into the Jackrabbit Sports Hall of Fame in the fall of 2014.
Another returning Jackrabbit with family ties to Jackrabbit Athletics are brothers Mason and Tristan Leiseth, whose father, David, lettered in football for SDSU from 1989-91 and also was a three-time All-American in the shot put.
Two other sets of brothers are on the 2016 Jackrabbit roster: Jake and Clark Wieneke, along with Jacob and Jordan Brown.
Two other members of the Jackrabbit freshman class also have family ties to South Dakota State Athletics. Quarterback Taryn Christion's mother, Heather, played volleyball at SDSU and fullback Turner Blasius' father, Justin, was an NCAA?Division II national wrestling champion.

ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICANS: South Dakota State University's Nick Mears and Jake Wieneke were each named to the Academic All-America Division I Football Team for the second year in a row, officials from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced on Dec. 1.
A senior safety from Milbank, Mears was a repeat selection to the first team with a perfect 4.0 grade-point average while majoring in economics. He has started nine games this season, contributing 37 tackles for a Jackrabbit squad that is making its fifth consecutive appearance in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs. A team captain, Mears also has been a three-time CoSIDA Academic All-District honoree and was honored on the FCS Athletic Directors Association Academic All-Star Team in 2015.
Wieneke, a junior wide receiver from Maple Grove, Minnesota, moved up to the first team after earning second-team recognition in 2015. A physical education/teacher education major with a 3.60 GPA, Wieneke is the Missouri Valley Football Conference career leader in both receiving yards (4,080) and receiving touchdowns (43). He leads the league this season with 1,204 receiving yards and 16 touchdown receptions among his 70 total catches in earning first-team all-MVFC honors for the third time. He also is a two-time All-America honoree for his efforts on the field.
SDSU was the only school with more than one selection to the first team, which is made up of student-athletes from both the Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision. Since moving to the FCS ranks in 2004, Jackrabbit football student-athletes have combined to receive CoSIDA Academic All-America recognition 22 times.
Nominees must be starters or key reserves with at least a 3.20 cumulative grade-point average (4.0 scale) and must have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at their institutions.
Wieneke and Mears were two of seven Jackrabbits named earlier in the week to the Missouri Valley Football Conference All-Academic Team. Joining them on the first team was sophomore quarterback Taryn Christion, who has compiled a 3.87 GPA while majoring in exercise science.
Four others were second-team honorees:
• Jesse Bobbit, junior, linebacker, 3.80, physical education/teacher education;
• Shayne Gottlob, senior, defensive tackle, 3.92, business economics;
• Kane Louscher, junior, fullback, 3.84, psychology/biology, and
• Brady Mengarelli, junior running back, 3.52, exercise science.
Mengarelli also was named to the CoSIDA?Academic All-District 6 team in October along with Mears and Wieneke.

TEAM ACADEMIC HONORS: For the eighth season in a row, South Dakota State claimed the Missouri Valley Football Conference Team Academic Award, compiling a 3.084 team grade-point average during the 2015 season. The Jackrabbits have received the award every year they have been a member of the MVFC.
Also during the 2015 season, three Jackrabbit football student-athletes were named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America Team. Nick Mears was a first-team selection, while Shayne Gottlob and Jake Wieneke were second-team honorees.
The Jacks were presented the Team Academic Award by MVFC?Commissioner Patty Viverito during the Sept. 17 game against Cal Poly.

FAREWELL TO COUGHLIN: The 2015 campaign marked the 54th — and final — season of Jackrabbit football at Coughlin-Alumni Stadium. Since opening on Sept. 22, 1962, SDSU compiled a 181-108 record (.626 winning percentage) on its home field.
Since moving to the NCAA?Division I Football Championship Subdivision in 2004, the Jackrabbits posted a 50-16 mark at CAS.

NEW FACILITIES: The South Dakota State University football program is expected to benefit greatly from the addition of two new facilities.
The Sanford-Jackrabbit Athletic Complex, which opened in the fall of 2014, serves as the indoor practice facility for the Jackrabbit football team and a number of other Jackrabbit squads. The complex, which features 100 yards of soy-based AstroTurf, also houses a 300-meter competition indoor track and expanded areas for strength and conditioning, sports medicine and coaches' offices.
In October 2013, SDSU officials announced lead gifts totaling $12.5 million from Sioux Falls banker Dana Dykhouse and philanthropist T. Denny Sanford toward the construction of a new football stadium. The announcement was made in conjunction with the 100th Hobo Day game at SDSU.
Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium, which has a seating capacity of 19,340 replaces Coughlin-Alumni Stadium, which served as the home of Jackrabbit football since 1962. The new stadium was built in phases on the current Coughlin-Alumni Stadium site, with completion scheduled in time for the Sept. 10 season opener against Drake.
The first phase of the stadium project, which included new seating on the east side and south end zone, along with installation of the largest scoreboard in the Football Championship Subdivision, was completed in September 2015.
The $65 million project was approved by the South Dakota Legislature in March 2014 and signed into law by Gov. Dennis Daugaard. The new west tower includes premium seating — club seats, loge boxes and suites — as well as a spacious press box and other amenities.
The stadium is being funded through private gifts and long-term revenue streams, including concessions and suite, loge box and ticket sales. Bonds are being secured to finance nearly half of the project's construction, with the remaining amount coming from private support.

JACKRABBIT INSIDER: Throughout the 2016 football season, head coach John Stiegelmeier will be a guest on the "Jackrabbit Insider," a weekly behind-the-scenes look at South Dakota State University athletics.
The half-hour television show, which features interviews with Jackrabbit coaches and student-athletes, airs Sundays at 10 p.m. on Sioux Falls-based MyUTV. The show is also broadcast on KELO-TV at 11 p.m. Central Sunday and at 10 p.m. Mountain Time Sunday on KDLO-TV. Online, the show can be viewed on demand at GoJacks.com.

STIG SHOW: The John Stiegelmeier Radio Show airs each Monday throughout the 2016 football season.
The show airs at 6 p.m. (Central Time) on the Jackrabbit Sports Network, originating with WNAX 570 AM in Yankton. In addition, the weekly show also will be streamed online free of charge at GoJacks.com.
Hosted by Tyler Merriam, the John Stiegelmeier Radio Show also features interviews with Jackrabbit student-athletes and assistant coaches. Jackrabbit fans are encouraged to attend the show in person at Cubby's Sports Bar and Grill, 307 Main Ave., in downtown Brookings.

A LOOK AHEAD: Should the Jackrabbits win Saturday, they will travel to the winner between fourth-seeded James Madison and fifth-seeded Sam Houston State in quarterfinal action either Dec. 16 or 17.

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