Men's Basketball hosts Omaha Saturday

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The Setup

South Dakota State returns home Saturday for the first home game of the New Year to face Omaha inside Frost Arena at 4:30 p.m. The game is the back end of a doubleheader with the women's game against the Mavericks set for 2 p.m.
SDSU and Omaha's all-time series dates back to 1919-20 and was played all throughout the days of the NCC before SDSU left in 2004. The series was renewed at the Division I level in 2012-13 when Omaha joined the Summit League, and since then the Jacks hold a 6-2 lead with Omaha winning the last matchup at home in 2015-16.

Scouting the Mavericks

Omaha enters Saturday's matchup at 7-9 overall with a 4-7 mark in road games. The Mavericks have dropped their first three conference games as well to open Summit League play, falling to South Dakota and North Dakota State on the road before an 80-78 loss to Fort Wayne at home last Wednesday.
Omaha won five of their final seven non-conference games after starting the year 2-4.
Four Mavericks average double figures in scoring with Marcus Tyus' 13.9 points per game leading the team. Tre'Shawn Thurman (13.7 ppg), Zach Jackson (12.0 ppg) and Tra-Deon Holins (11.3 ppg) are also above the 10-point mark on average.
Thurman paces the team with 8.1 rebounds per night while fellow big man Jackson is averaging 5.2 rebounds per game.
Hollins, a All-Summit League Preseason First Team pick, leads the conference with 100 assists through 16 games played and is averaging 6.25 assists per contest. That APG mark is 14th nationally and Hollins is 10th in NCAA Division I in total assists.
On the defensive end, Hollins ranks third nationally with 47 total steals and fourth overall with 3.13 steals per game.
As a team, Omaha is averaging 80.6 points per night and allowing 83.7 by opponents.
The Mavericks are shooting 43.7 percent as a team with a clip of 35.5 percent beyond the arc. From the free throw line, Omaha is 299 of 403 (74.2 percent).
Opponents are shooting 45.7 percent against the Mavs from the field and have hit 38.8 percent of their 3-point attempts. At the charity stripe, opponents are shooting 72.5 (245 of 338) against Omaha.
As of Jan. 4, the Mavericks rank alongside SDSU as one of the nation's top free throw shooting teams. Omaha is 17th in free throw makes and 29th in free throw attempts for the year.

Charity Stripe Success

South Dakota State has gotten to the free throw line more than its opponents in 16 of 18 games this season and have trailed in free throw attempts just once this season. The Jackrabbits are shooting just under 80 percent (79.2) 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 Jan. 5, South Dakota State ranks fourth in free throw attempts (424), third nationally in free throws made (336) and fifth in NCAA Division I in free throw percentage (.792).
As of Jan. 5, Mike Daum is the national leader in free throw makes (138) and attempts (154) and is 29th in free throw percentage (89.6).

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 22.9 points and 8.1 rebounds per contest so far this year.
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 16 of 18 games this season and 46 times over 52 career games.
Has scored 20 or more in 12 games this season and 19 for his career.
Has scored over 30 points in four contests this season.
Has recorded four double-doubles this season and six 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 52 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 21 points per game, Daum is projected to join the 1,000 points club by mid-January 2017.
Daum ranks second nationally in total scoring with 391 points through 18 games. He is 17th nationally with 21.7 points per game currently.
Daum ranks seventh nationally with 114 field goals made and 36th with 220 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 (955 points) and Tyler Hall of Montana State (924 points) as the leading sophomore scorers.

#FearFrost

The Jacks own a 69-4 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).
Since 2011-12, South Dakota State has won 94.5 percent of its home games, a mark that ranks third among all Division I programs and trails only Kansas and Kentucky. 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 467 3-pointers this season, up from 378 3-point attempts through 18 games last season. The school record for 3-point attempts in a season is 732. No. 10 on that record list is 527.
Those 467 3-point attempts represent 49.9 percent of SDSU's 935 total field goal attempts.
As of Jan. 5, the Jacks rank fourth in NCAA Division I in 3-point attempts (467), are seventh nationally in 3-pointers made (162), shooting at 34.7 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

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.
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 30 over three games. Hess set career-highs in rebounds against North Dakota State (10) and Western Illinois (14).
A.J. Hess and Reed Tellinghuisen rank 17th and 20th among NCAA Division I players, respectively, in 3-point field goal attempts. Hess has hit 44 of 120 this season and Tellinghuisen has made 39 out of 119.
Four times this season the Jacks have seen four players reach double figures. The Jacks last did it Dec. 31 when Mike Daum (30), Andre Wallace (12), Reed Tellinghuisen (11) and A.J. Hess (10) all scored above 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 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 (614) and Mike Daum (561) rank first and fifth nationally in minutes played.
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 10 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 86.8 percent mark on free throws (average 2.0 per game).

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.
The Jacks are seventh nationally with just 15.2 personal fouls per game (as of Jan. 5 stats release).
At least one Jackrabbit has scored in double figures over the last 294 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 322 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 87 games without a 1,000 point scorer. Mike Daum is currently 91 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. 4, 2017
MACOMB, Illinois -- South Dakota State dropped its first game of the New Year, 82-74, Wednesday evening at Western Illinois.
SDSU (8-10, 1-2 Summit League) shot 41.5 percent in the game with eight 3-pointers and a 22 of 29 effort at the free throw line, but WIU (5-9, 2-1 Summit League) hit 16 3-pointers, and shot 41.9 percent from the field as a team to secure the win.
A.J. Hess paced the team with a double-double of 13 points and 14 rebounds (a career-high), while Michael Orris led the team in scoring with 17 points. Reed Tellinghuisen added 15 points and six rebounds for the game and Chris Howell just missed double figures, finishing with nine points.
Four Leathernecks were in double figures as Garret Covington led the team with 22 points.
Ahead 5-1 early, South Dakota State saw Western Illinois put together three runs of five or more in the opening nine minutes to take a 20-14 lead near the 12-minute mark.
Down six at that point, SDSU went on a burst of 13 unanswered over the next four and a half minutes behind two Hess 3-pointers to lead 27-20. That rally was part of a larger 18-3 run that gave the Jacks a 32-23 lead inside six minutes to play. WIU cut the lead to four, 32-28, moments later, but the Jacks kept the Leathernecks at bay and and moved the advantage into double digits, 39-28, at 2:45 on a Hess jumper.
WIU scored the final five points of the half, but for the third consecutive game the Jackrabbits took a lead into the locker room, ahead 39-33 at half.
Hess was over the halfway mark to a double-double with 13 points and eight rebounds in the opening frame, hitting three 3-pointers to lead the team.
SDSU fired at 43.3 percent from the field in the half and hit five 3-pointers as a team while Western Illinois had eight 3-pointers to keep things close, shooting 36.7 percent as a team on field goals.
The opening four minutes of second half action saw Western Illinois chip away at the lead to draw within two, 46-44, before the media timeout. Out of the reset, SDSU went back up four but saw the Leathernecks answer with a 3-pointer to make it a one-point game, 48-47, with 14:13 to play.
South Dakota State recovered briefly, as the Jacks opened up a seven-point lead (58-51) over the next five minutes, before WIU continued to charge and matched the Jacks, 61-61, at the under-eight media timeout (7:02).
Down the stretch, SDSU was hit with a cold spell from the field that allowed WIU to pull away.

Mavericks' Last Time Out -- Jan. 4, 2017
(OMavs.com)
OMAHA, Neb. – Fort Wayne's John Konchar made the game-winning shot with less than a second to go Wednesday night, sinking the Omaha men's basketball team 80-78 at Baxter Arena. The Mavericks are now 7-9 (0-3 Summit League) on the season, while the Mastodons improve to 12-4 (2-1).
Senior guard Marcus Tyus's performance highlighted a strong Omaha effort, as he eclipsed the 1,000 career points milestone to become the 37th 1,000-point scorer in program history. The Ramsey, Minn., native finished with 25 points on 8-of-10 shooting, including 4-of-5 from 3-point range and 5-of-5 at the free throw line, along with four steals. He now owns 1,010 points over his Maverick career.
Junior forward Tre'Shawn Thurman added his fifth double-double of the season with 16 points and 10 rebounds with two blocks, and senior guard Tra-Deon Hollins had 14 points, five assists, three steals and a pair of boards.
Konchar, credited with the game-winning basket for the Mastodons, tallied a double-double with game highs of 33 points and 11 rebounds while shooting 13-of-15 from the field and 4-of-4 from distance. Mo Evans added another 11 points, and Brent Calhoun had 10 points, eight caroms and a game-high six blocks.
The Mavericks shot .464 (26-of-56) from the floor, .471 (8-of-17) from 3-point range and .818 (18-of-22) at the free throw line. Fort Wayne finished at .462 (30-of-65) from the field, .333 (10-of-30) beyond the arc and .769 (10-of-13) at the stripe, and the Mastodons had the edge in rebounding, 38-29.
Fort Wayne overcame an Omaha team that led for over 32 minutes in the game. The Mavericks took their largest lead of the night with 6:09 until the break, as consecutive threes from Tyus and sophomore forward Mitch Hahn made it 32-21. Omaha held a 40-34 advantage at halftime after shooting .500 (13-of-26) for the half, sparked by eight points apiece from Tyus, Thurman and junior forward Daniel Meyer.
In the second stanza, Fort Wayne looked to Konchar, who shot a perfect 7-for-7 en route to 19 points, which contributed to the Mastodons' .593 (16-of-27) shooting for the half. Tyus, meanwhile, poured in 17 points of his own with a 6-of-8 effort, with a reverse layup at 16:21 cementing his 1,000th career point and extending Omaha's lead to 11 again at 53-42.
The Mastodons, however, strung together a 9-0 run between 12:49 and 10:41, which put them ahead 59-57. Omaha responded with a 10-2 spurt of their own, as a Hahn trey at 8:48 pushed the Mavericks' lead to six.
Coming out of the final media timeout, Omaha led 73-70 before the Mastodons tied it at 75-75 with 1:44 left thanks to a Konchar 3-pointer. Tyus then drilled a three of his own on the ensuing possession, again spotting UNO a 78-75 edge with 1:27 to play. Deangelo Stewart followed with another triple at 1:05 for the ninth tie of the night at 78-78, and after a Maverick miss, Konchar had the final say by hitting the game-winning jumper with 00.6 on the clock to give Fort Wayne the 80-78 win.

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.

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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