Broadcast Information
The Setup
- South Dakota State plays its only game of the week Thursday at Oral Roberts in Tulsa, Okla. The Jacks and Golden Eagles tip at 7 p.m., from the Mabee Center.
- SDSU holds a narrow 9-8 lead in the all-time series, which dates back to 1967-68. The series was renewed in 2007-08 when SDSU joined The Summit League before a brief hiatus from 2012-14 when ORU left the conference (only to rejoin in 2014-15). The Jackrabbits have won six straight in the series including a three-game sweep of ORU in 2015-16. The Jacks took both regular season matchups last year before pulling out a 73-70 win in the first round of the Summit League Tournament in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Scouting the Golden Eagles
- Oral Roberts enters the week at 4-13 overall with a 0-3 mark in conference play. The Golden Eagles are one-half game behind SDSU in the standings and currently sit ninth.Â
- Thursday's game is the first home conference game for ORU this year after the Golden Eagles traveled to Denver, Fort Wayne and Western Illinois in the first two weeks of Summit League play.
- ORU is led in scoring by three players averaging double figures. Albert Owens sports a 15.3 ppg average while Jalen Bradley and Kris Martin have each scored 13.9 points per game. Bradley and Owens are two of three Golden Eagles (joining Emmanuel Nzekwesi) to start all 17 games while Martin missed the first two games of the season.
- Nzewesi's 7.0 rebounds per contest (and 119 total boards) paces ORU with Aaron Anderson (5.7 rpg) and Albert Owens (5.5 rpg) close behind. Owens also leads the team with 18 blocks on the year.
- Bradley leads the team with 33.8 minutes played on average as the guard has tallied 24 steals to go alongside 71 assists for the year.
- As a team, ORU is shooting 43.3 percent from the field and has hit 124 of 338 3-point attempts (36.7 percent). The Golden Eagles are shooting 72.3 percent as a team from the charity stripe.
- Opponents are firing at a rate of 45.9 percent on field goals, 40.1 percent from long range and 70.2 percent on free throws against ORU.
- The Golden Eagles trail in scoring margin (72.2 to 78.6) by a minus-6.4 mark and hold a minus-2.4 margin in rebounds.
- The Golden Eagles are coached by Scott Sutton, son of College Basketball Hall of Fame coach Eddie Sutton and brother of former Oklahoma State standout, Sean Sutton.
Charity Stripe Success
- South Dakota State has gotten to the free throw line more than its opponents in 16 of 19 games this season and have trailed in free throw attempts just twice this season. The Jackrabbits are shooting just under 80 percent (7912) on free throws this season, have five players at or above the 80 percent mark and nine 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 Jan. 9, South Dakota State ranks eighth in free throw attempts (450), second nationally in free throws made (356) and fourth in NCAA Division I in free throw percentage (.791).
- As of Jan. 9, Mike Daum is the national leader in free throw makes (143) and attempts (162) and is 36th in free throw percentage (88.3).
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 7.8 rebounds per contest so far this year.Â
- Named The Summit League's December Male Athlete of the Month after averaging 25.4 points and 7.5 rebounds over eight contests last month. Daum shot 53.6 percent from the field, 40 percent beyond the arc and 92.4 percent at the charity stripe for the month while reaching 20 points or more in seven of eight games (with over 30 points in two games).
- 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 17 of 19 games this season and 47 times over 53 career games.
- Has scored 20 or more in 13 games this season and 20 for his career.
- Has scored over 30 points in four contests this season.
- Has recorded five double-doubles this season and seven in his career.
- 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).
- 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 twice this season and six times in 53 career games
- 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 and hit the 900-point mark after scoring 30 against South Dakota Dec. 31. He is the program's active leading scorer and if he continues his pace of more than 22 points per game, Daum is projected to join the 1,000 points club in mid-January 2017.
- Daum ranks second nationally in total scoring with 419 points through 19 games. He is 12th nationally with 22.1 points per game currently.
- Daum ranks sixth nationally with 124 field goals made and 34th with 240 field goal attempts
- Daum ranks as the third highest scoring sophomore on the NCAA's active scoring list among all divisions and DI. He trails Marcus Evans of Rice (1,001 points) and Tyler Hall of Montana State (989 points) as the leading sophomore scorers.
#FearFrost
- The Jacks own a 69-5 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).
- Since 2011-12, South Dakota State has won 93.2 percent of its home games, a mark that ranks seventh among all Division I programs. The list of top 10 home winning percentages since 2011-12 is available on page four of the game notes.
From Long Range
- SDSU has fired 492 3-pointers this season, up from 410 3-point attempts through 19Â games last season. The school record for 3-point attempts in a season is 732. No. 10 on that record list is 527.
- Those 492 3-point attempts represent 48.8 percent of SDSU's 1007 total field goal attempts.
- As of Jan. 9, the Jacks rank fifth in NCAA Division I in 3-point attempts (492), are 12th nationally in 3-pointers made (169), shooting at 34.3 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.
Player Quick Hits
- Cole Gentry, who started four games for the Jackrabbits earlier this season, has been granted his release from the program.
- A.J. Hess posted his first career double-double on Jan. 4 at Western Illinois, scoring 13 points to go alongside a career-high 14 rebounds.Â
- Hess pulled down 42 total rebounds over 15 non-conference games to open the year, but since conference play began Hess is the team's leading rebounder with 36 over four games. Hess set career-highs in rebounds against North Dakota State (10) and Western Illinois (14).Â
- A.J. Hess and Reed Tellinghuisen rank 24th and 38th among NCAA Division I players, respectively, in 3-point field goal attempts. Hess has hit 46 of 128 this season and Tellinghuisen has made 39 out of 123.
- Five times this season the Jacks have seen four players reach double figures. The Jacks last did it Jan. 7 when Mike Daum (28), Ian Theisen (15), Reed Tellinghuisen (12), A.J. Hess (11) and Michael Orris (11) all scored in double digits against Omaha.
- 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.
- SDSU has had five different players hit double figures in a game twice this season. The Jacks first did it in the win over Minnesota Crookston on Nov. 30, 2016. SDSU also did it Jan. 7 against Omaha.
- 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 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 13 of 18 games this season, pushing his career mark in that category to 44 games with double figures. Tellinghuisen is second on the active career scoring list.
- Reed Tellinghuisen ranks second nationally with 641 total minutes played this season.
- 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 10.2 points per game with 11 double figure scoring games and a double-double. Hess has reached the 10-point mark in five of the last last games and is averaging 2.4 3-point field goals per contest with a 87.2 percent mark on free throws.
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 15th nationally with just 15.5 personal fouls per game (as of Jan. 10 stats release).
- At least one Jackrabbit has scored in double figures over the last 295 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 323 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 88 games without a 1,000 point scorer. Mike Daum is currently 67 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 -- Jan. 7, 2017
  BROOKINGS, S.D. -- A valiant comeback effort for a hard-charging South Dakota State men's basketball team fell short on Saturday inside Frost Arena as the Jackrabbits fell to Omaha, 101-93.
  SDSU (8-11, 1-3) outscored Omaha (8-9, 1-3), 59-46, over the final 20 minutes and drew within two of the Mavericks late, but a 21-point deficit at the half was too much for SDSU to overcome in the game.
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Mike Daum led the way with a double-double of 28 points and 10 rebounds as one of five Jacks to reach double figures.Â
Ian Theisen had 15 points,
Reed Tellinghuisen scored 12 points and
Andre Wallace and
Michael Orris added 11 points for the Jacks.
   Tellinghuisen was second on the team with six rebounds while Wallace dished out a team-high four assists.
  Marcus Tyus scored 34 and was one of three Mavericks to score in double digits.
  Down 22 inside six minutes to play, South Dakota State stormed back to within two with less than a minute to go but couldn't complete the comeback.
  Back-and-forth through the opening eight minutes, the teams traded runs and saw five lead changes before the Omaha led, 19-15, at the under-12 media break. SDSU climbed back to within one, 22-21, with 10 minutes to go before the Mavericks went on a 28-5 run over the next eight minutes to take control.
  The final three minutes of the half saw SDSU outscore Omaha thanks in part to a burst of six unanswered, but the Jacks went to the locker room down 21, 55-34.
  Theisen led the team with 11 points at the break while Daum scored nine with five rebounds in the opening frame.
  SDSU came out strong in the second with a 6-0 run in the opening three minutes, picking up five defensive stops while forcing four Omaha turnovers in that span. Down 15 (40-55) at that point, the Jacks saw the comeback effort thwarted momentarily as Omaha moved the lead back above 20 over the next three minutes. Â
  Trailing 66-44 with under 13 minutes to play, a Theisen layup started a 9-0 Jackrabbit run that brought SDSU within 13 (66-53) over the next three minutes before Omaha recovered once again with three 3-pointers in a two-minute stretch.
  The Jackrabbits began one last push off a Tellinghuisen layup at 5:28 to open a 19-6 SDSU run, moving the deficit from 22 to nine (87-74) over the next three minutes to make it a nine-point game, 89-80, at 2:45 on an old-fashioned 3-point play from Orris.Â
  Down the stretch, SDSU continued to push and used another 9-0 run to pull within two, 93-91, inside the final minute, and though Omaha did not hit a field goal over the final 6:38, free throw shooting for the Mavericks ultimately ended the Jackrabbit comeback.
Golden Eagles' Last Time Out -- Jan. 7, 2017
(ORUAthletics.com)
MACOMB, Ill. – Despite a pair of 20-point scorers, the Oral Roberts men's basketball team fell on the road Saturday afternoon as Western Illinois got 34 points from Garret Covington in an 86-71 decision at Western Hall.
ORU got 22 points from Albert Owens, 21 from Kris Martin and 13 from Aaron Anderson to lead the offensive attack. Darian Harris led the way on the boards with eight rebounds.
In addition to 34 points from Covington, Mike Miklusak scored 18 points for the Leathernecks. Brandon Gilbeck notched a double-double for WIU with 10 points and 13 rebounds.
Turning Point
Down to an eight point deficit with four minutes to play, Covington and Miklusak scored five straight for the Leathernecks to make it a 13 point game with 3:03 to play and ORU was unable to get it back to single digits the rest of the game.
Individual Leaders
Oral Roberts: Owens scored 22 points while Martin added 21. Jalen Bradley and Anderson each dished out three assists and Harris led the rebounding effort with eight rebounds while Anderson grabbed seven.
Western Illinois: Covington hit 12 of his 16 shots en route to 34 points. Delo Bruster had seven assists and Gilbeck added a team-high 13 rebounds.
Inside the Box Score
- ORU shot 42 percent (27-64) from the field but connected on 26 percent (5-19) from 3-point range, though many of the attempts came late in the game when the Golden Eagles were trying to catch up.
- WIU shot 49 percent (31-63) for the game and 48 percent (12-25) from 3-point range, with six of the 12 makes coming from Covington.
- WIU held a 39-35 advantage in rebounding and a 10-2 edge in points off turnovers.
- With Owens inside, ORU out-scored WIU 30-22 in the paint.
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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