Tellinghuisen and Daum Score Big in Loss at Omaha

Wednesday, February 10

Omaha, Neb.

7 p.m.

South Dakota State University

19-6 (8-3)

Omaha

16-10 (8-4)

South Dakota State

Omaha

2/10/2016 10:51:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score

By: SDSU Sports Info

South Dakota State tied a single-game program record by making 15 3-pointers, four players scored in double figures and two scored at least 20, but Omaha shot 59 percent from the floor, and hung on for the 96-92 win, spoiling the Jackrabbits first chance at reaching 20 wins for the season.

The loss snaps the Jackrabbits five game winning streak and drops them to 19-6 on the season overall and to 8-3 in The Summit League, while the host Mavericks improve to 16-10 overall and to 8-4 in league play.

“They just beat us at all the things it takes to win tough basketball games; free throws, rebounding, turnovers, you name it, field goal percentage, all of it,” head coach Scott Nagy said. “We didn't deserve to win this basketball game and they did, they wanted it more.”

A pair of early 3-pointers from Reed Tellinghuisen and one from Mike Daum sparked an 8-0 run that gave SDSU an early 14-7 lead after a Keaton Moffitt 3-pointer less than five minutes into the game. The Mavericks countered with a 6-1 run and added a 7-0 run later in the half to cut the SDSU lead to 22-21 with under 10 minutes to play in the first half.

SDSU snapped the run with Tellinghuisen 3-pointer, and built the lead back to 10 points on another Tellinghuisen 3-pointer with under five minutes left in the first half, but Omaha battled back to cut the lead to 43-40 until a Deondre Parks 3-pointer at the first half buzzer gave the Jacks a 46-40 halftime lead.

The Mavericks scored the first five points of the second half to cut the SDSU lead to 46-45. Daum and Omaha then traded 3-pointers before the Mavericks took a short-lived lead at 53-52 with 16 minutes, 40 seconds left the first of seven second half lead changes.

SDSU led 67-63 midway through the second half, when Omaha used a 13-2 run take a 76-69 lead with just under eight minutes to play. That lead would grow to as many as nine at 81-72 a couple of minutes later.

Down nine again at 84-75 with just over six minutes left, the Jackrabbits used a 9-0 run to tie the game on an old fashioned 3-point play from Daum with 4:34 left, and then extended the run to 12-1 to go up 87-85 just 30 seconds later.

The Mavs quickly regained the lead, and minus a Marshall triple that the game at 92 with just over a minute left, led for the remainder of the game.

Tellinghuisen led the Jackrabbits with 21 points on 7 of 9 shooting from beyond the arc. Daum finished with 20 points, while Marshall added 18 and Parks 15 points in the loss.

Tra-Deon Hollins scored a game-high 28 points for the Mavs, with Tre-Shawn Thurman adding 19, Jake White 18 and Devin Patterson 15 points. Hollins also added a game-high nine rebounds.

SDSU looks to get back on the winning track on Saturday, and extend its home winning streak to 27, when the Jackrabbits host South Dakota in the South Dakota Corn Showdown Series at Frost Arena. The Jacks and Coyotes tip at 4:30 p.m.

NOTES: SDSU leads the all-time series 54-31 with a 6-2 lead in Summit League play ... the teams played in front of an announced crowd of 2,838 at the new Baxter Arena, the first-ever meeting in the venue ... the Jackrabbits tied a school single-game record with 15 3-pointers, seven from Tellinghuisen, which ties for the fourth most in a single-game at SDSU ... exactly four players scored in double figures for the 11th time this season, at least four scored in double figures for the 14th time ... two Jackrabbits scored at least 20 points in the same game in a loss for the second time this season (at Weber State, 12/22/15) ... SDSU lost for the third time this season when leading at halftime (15-3) ... the loss is Nagy's 100th career loss in a conference game, compared to 203 wins