Men host Drake Tuesday night

Tuesday, December 19

Brookings, S.D.

7 p.m.

South Dakota State University

Drake

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12/18/2017 12:27:00 PM | Men's Basketball

GAME 15: South Dakota State (9-5) vs Drake (5-6)

When	Tuesday, Dec. 19 \| 7 p.m.
Where	Frost Arena \| Brookings, S.D.
Radio	Jackrabbit Sports Network \| WNAX 570 AM \| Tyler Merriam & Brad Newitt
Live Video	Jackrabbits All-Access
Live Audio	Jackrabbits All-Access
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Game Notes	South Dakota State \| Drake \| Summit League
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Previewing the Game
South Dakota State returns home Tuesday, welcoming Drake to Frost Arena for a 7 p.m. tip.

The Jacks (9-5) are coming off a tightly-contested double overtime loss at Colorado after dominating in consecutive matchups against North Dakota and Concordia over the last two weeks.
Drake (5-6) has dropped two straight and four of its last five, falling 90-64 to Iowa last Saturday.

The Jackrabbits and Bulldogs have faced each other seven times with Drake holding a 5-2 edge in the series. SDSU won an 83-75 matchup last season in Des Moines, Iowa, and are 1-1 at the Division I level against the Bulldogs. This is just the second time Drake has come to Frost Arena, with State's only other win in the series coming at home on Dec. 8, 1958 (83-73).

About South Dakota State
The Summit League Preseason Player of the Year Mike Daum is the nation's top returning scorer and is off to another strong start, averaging a team-best 21.2 points and 7.9 rebounds per contest. He has four double-doubles on the campaign and has reached double figures in 13 of 14 contests, including four of his 16 career 30-point performances. Daum scored 10 or more points in 23 straight games between Jan. 21 and Dec. 2, 2017, and this season has gone over 20 eight times.

Freshmen David Jenkins Jr. has established himself as a go-to scorer early in his college career, sitting second on the team with 15.0 points per game and 11 double-digit scoring performances. He has led the team in scoring three times (13 against UCI, 23 against Iowa and 19 against Concordia) and is shooting 41.9 percent from the field this season. He has reached the 20-point mark four times this season, including his first career 30-point game, where he dropped 31 at Colorado with seven 3-pointers. The Tacoma, Washington native leads the team with 38 3-pointers this season and is shooting 43.2 percent beyond the arc.

Reed Tellinghuisen has risen to 24th all-time in career points at SDSU (1,182) this year and is averaging 11.8 points per game, hitting double figures in eight of the last 11 contests. Tellinghuisen is puling down 4.4 rebounds per contest, and has dished out 21 assists. The Sac City, Iowa native is shooting 46.6 percent from the field and is 29-for-68 from 3-point range.

Tevin King is just below double figures for a season average, posting 9.1 points per game with 75 total rebounds (5.4 per game), 40 assists and a team-high 24 steals. From Chicago, King has already hit nine 3-pointers (compared to seven a year ago) and is shooting at a clip of 56 percent from the field. He has scored 10 or more in seven games this season and has passed the mark in four of the last five contests, including a 14-point, six-rebound and nine-assist performance at Wichita State.

About Drake
Drake is led by four double figure scorers this season, with Reed Timmer (20.0 points per game) pacing the squad. Timmer is shooting 45.9 percent from the field had has hit a team-high 35 3-pointers at a rate of 50.7 percent. He is also a 90 percent shooter from the charity stripe (63-of-70) and has 32 assists on the season, good enough for second on the team.

De'Antae McMurray (11.5 ppg) is second in scoring with a 39.8 percent field goal percentage and has 4.0 rebounds per game, hitting 17 3-pointers this season with 31 assists.

Graham Woodward (11.2 ppg) and Nick McGlynn (10.6 ppg) are in double figures as well. Woodward has hit 28 3-pointers this season and is 15-of-16 from the free throw line (93.8 percent), while McGlynn had a team-high 52.6 field goal percentage with 5.2 rebounds per game, second on the team behind C.J. Rivers, who has 61 total rebounds (5.5 per game).

The Bulldogs are averaging 79.9 points per game as a team and are minus-one in rebounding margin on the year. Drake is shooting 44.8 percent combined, and has hit 114 total 3-pointers

Niko Medved is in his first season leading the Bulldogs and is 67-76 is five years as a head coach overall.

A South Dakota State Win Would ...
Give SDSU its 10th win of the season ... move SDSU to 3-5 all-time against the Bulldogs and 2-1 in series matchups at the Division I level ... make Otzelberger 28-22 at South Dakota State ... send the Jackrabbits to 1,493-1,029-1 all-time.

A South Dakota State Loss Would ...
Put the Jacks at 9-6 ... move State 2-6 all-time against the Bulldogs and 1-2 at the Division I level ... make Otzelberger 27-23 at South Dakota State ... move SDSU to 1,492-1,030-1 all-time.

Tough Tests
South Dakota State played five Power Five (ACC, SEC, Big 10, Big 10 and Pac-12) opponents this season and has two wins those games.

The Jackrabbits knocked off Ole Miss (Nov. 28) in overtime after a win over Iowa (Nov. 21) at the Cayman Islands Classic.

SDSU also faced Kansas (Nov. 17) and Colorado (Dec. 15) in addition to a road matchup at then-No. 6 Wichita State (a member of the American Athletic Conference), with narrow losses against the Shockers and Buffaloes. At WSU, the Jacks led for over 28 minutes of game action, but a late charge helped the Shockers defend their home court. SDSU charged back from an early deficit in Colorado to force overtime, but could not pull off the comeback in a double overtime affair that saw SDSU play just eight Jackrabbits in 50 minutes of game action.

South Dakota State has seven wins over Power Five programs since joining The Summit League in 2007, picking up wins over Iowa State (2008), Iowa (2010 and 2017), Washington (2011), TCU (2015), Minnesota (2015) and Ole Miss (2017).

SDSU's wins over Iowa and Ole Miss this season came in the shortest time frame of any Summit League team since 1998 (seven days). The Jackrabbits are the fifth league team to post a win over separate Power Five conferences in the same regular season, and the first to do it since 2009.

Jacks Sit 22nd in Mid-Major Poll
The Jackrabbits slipped to 22nd in the latest College Sports Madness Mid-Major Top 25 poll, released Dec. 11 by the organization.

The Jackrabbits have been ranked in all six versions of the poll, including preseason, while sitting as high as 13th in the second edition.

The latest edition of the poll features 2017-18 opponents Missouri State (No. 17), South Dakota (No. 25), UC Irvine (receiving votes) and Buffalo (RV).

Daum Named November Athlete of the Month
South Dakota State's Mike Daum was selected as the Summit League's November Male Athlete of the Month, announced Dec. 7 by the conference office.

Daum helped the Jacks to a 7-2 record through the opening part of the season and averaged a near-double-double, posting 20.1 points and 8.2 rebounds per game while hitting 22 3-pointers. The Kimball, Nebraska native scored in double figures for all nine contests, including two 30-point performances and five games with 20 or more.

The forward had three consecutive double-doubles from Nov. 12-17, racking up 22 points and 13 rebounds against Mary and 30 points with 13 rebounds against Alabama State before closing the streak with a 21-point, 11-board performance at then-No. 3 Kansas.

Daum, Tellinghuisen Continue Rise on Scoring Chart
Mike Daum entered the top 5 for career points at South Dakota State last Tuesday and now has 1,691 points in his career. Next on the list is Austin Hansen, who scored 1,815 points between 1999-2003.

Reed Tellinghuisen joined the top 25 in all-time scoring Dec. 12, and is currently 24th with 1,182 career points. He is less than 300 points from joining the top 10 after joining the 1,000 points club in The Summit League Tournament last season.

The complete 1,000 point club can be found on page 10 of the game notes.

Let It Rain
South Dakota State's 3-point offense ranks among the nation's best for the second-straight season, as the team leads the nation in 3-pointers made and is fifth in attempts for the Dec. 17 stats release (available at print). The Jacks are 16th nationally with 10.9 3-pointers per game and their 41.4 long range shooting percentage is 21st in Division I.

Last season, the Jacks had three players that hit 60 or more 3-pointers last season, including two returners in Mike Daum (79) and Reed Tellinghuisen (74). That duo ranked 13th nationally among active returning duos in combined 3-pointers from a year-ago. State has three already with 25 or more 3-pointers this year: David Jenkins Jr. (38), Mike Daum (36) and Reed Tellinghuisen (29) and all rank among the nation's best, with Jenkins and Daum sitting 16th and 21st in the nation, respectively.

Through 14 games last season, SDSU was 127-for-352 beyond the arc. This year, the Jacks are 153-for-370 from long distance.

Nov. 28 saw the Jackrabbits reset the school's Division I record for 3-pointers made and attempted in a game for the third (makes) and fourth (attempts) time under head coach T.J. Otzelberger, going 18-for-41 beyond the arc.

Since the arrival of Otzelberger, the Jacks now hold all of the top five spots in the record book for 3-pointers made in a Division I game, and hold all but one of the spots in the top five of attempts. This year, SDSU has hit 10 or more 3-pointers in eight games.

Dynamic Duo
Teammates Mike Daum and Reed Tellinghuisen are back after leading the team in scoring a year ago, and rank among the nation's best as a scoring duo with over 2,800 points between them in their careers. The Jacks are fourth in total career points as a pair as of Dec. 18, 2017.

#FearFrost
The Jacks own a 80-5 record at Frost Arena over the last six seasons dating back to 2011-12, which includes perfect home records in four of the last five years entering the current season. That span includes two home winning streaks of 30 or more games.

South Dakota State won 34 consecutive games from Jan. 30, 2014 to Dec. 28, 2016. It ended as the nation's second longest active streak.
The Jackrabbits 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). SDSU is 6-0 at home this year.
Since 2011-12, South Dakota State has won 94.1 percent of its home games, a mark that ranks fifth among all Division I programs.
South Dakota State has won 26 consecutive home nonconference games inside Frost Arena. That mark ranks ninth nationally.

Pointing The Way
Tevin King and Brandon Key have shared the point guard role through 14 games this season, complimenting each other and helping the team rank 14th nationally with 202 total assists.

Key has a team-high 58 assists (4.1 per game) to go with a 6.2 scoring average. He four double-figure scoring games and has dished three or more assists on 10 occasions this season, including a pair of seven-assist efforts against Alabama State and DSU and eight games with five or more.

King has 40 assists and is averaging 9.1 points per contest while leading the team with 24 steals. The Chicago, Illinois native has already surpassed his 3-point total from a year ago, sitting with nine made 3s this season to go alongside a 56.0 field goal percentage. He has seven double figure scoring games this season and over the last five games has 56 points, 19 rebounds, 12 steals and 21 assists with just 10 turnovers.

Tacoma Talent
Tacoma, Washington native David Jenkins Jr. has burst on the scene through his first month of collegiate basketball, racking up 210 points and 38 3-pointers through 14 games. He has hit at least two 3-pointers in 10 contests and on Dec. 15 at Colorado set the school's freshman single-game scoring record at the Division I level with 31.

The lone West coach native on the Jackrabbit roster has reached double figures in 11 of his first 14 games, becoming the first freshman to accomplish the feat at SDSU since Steve Holdren did it in 10 of his first 14 appearances in 2004-05.

Jenkins and Holdren are also the only two Jackrabbit freshmen to lead the team in scoring in their first collegiate game over the last 17 years (dating back to 2000-01 when game-by-game stats were readily available).

Jenkins is second on the team with a 15.0 points per game average in 2017-18 and has shot 41.9 percent from the field, and 43.2 percent from long distance.

He is on pace to challenge Mike Daum's freshman scoring record of 518 points, set in 2015-16. Jenkins has 210 points through 14 games, compared to Daum's 162 points in that span.

Fellow Tacoma native Isaiah Thomas, currently with the Cleveland Cavaliers, had 214 points and 12 double figure games through his freshman year at Washington.

Jenkins scored over 2,000 points in his high school career before spending a year at Sunrise Christian Academy Prep School. He was named as a newcomer to watch in The Summit League by TheAthletic.com's John Rohde.

As of Monday, Dec. 18 Jenkins sits seventh among Division I freshmen this season in total points.

Daum Named to Award Watch Lists
Mike Daum has earned a spot on three national award watch lists for the 2017-18 season, being named a preseason favorite for the Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year, Oscar Robertson Player of the Year and Lute Olson Player of the Year awards.

The Karl Malone Award is presented by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Named after Hall of Famer and two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Karl Malone, the annual honor in its fourth year recognizes the top power forwards in Division I men's college basketball. By mid-February, the watch list of 20 players for the 2018 Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year Award will be narrowed to just 10. In March, five finalists will be presented to Mr. Malone and the Hall of Fame's selection committee. The winner of the 2018 Karl Malone Award will be presented at the ESPN College Basketball Awards Show presented by Wendy's in Los Angeles, CA on Friday, April 6, 2018.
Daum was selected as one of 32 players on the 2017-18 Oscar Robertson Trophy Preseason Watch List, announced Nov. 6 by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association. The award is presented to the national player of the year by its namesake at the NCAA Final Four in San Antonio. In mid-March, the USBWA will announce its 2017-18 All-America Team and, at that time, finalists will also be chosen for the player of the year. Once finalists are announced, the entire USBWA membership will vote for the winner of the Oscar Robertson Trophy.
He was announced as one of 40 selections on the CollegeInsider.com Lute Olson Award Watch List Nov. 6 as well. The Lute Olson Award is presented annually to the nation's top Division I player who has played at least two seasons. The 2017-18 Lute Olson National Player of the Year Award will be announced on March 31, 2018 at the CollegeInsider.com Awards Event in San Antonio, site of the men's NCAA Basketball Championship.

Team Quick Hits

Mike Daum and David Jenkins Jr. became the first Jackrabbit duo in Division I to score 30 or more points in the same game when the pair went for 37 and 31, respectively at Colorado Dec. 15.
South Dakota State has scored 100 or more twice this season. Prior to the Jackrabbits' 103-67 win over Concordia (Neb.), the previous 100-point game for SDSU was Feb. 28, 2013. The last time SDSU had two or more 100-point games in a season was 2011-12, when the Jackrabbits did it twice. The Division I program record for 100-point games in a season is five, set in 2004-05 and the overall program record is six, set in 1997-98, 1991-92 and 1968-69.
The Jackrabbits have tallied 90 or more points in six of their last eight games and has passed the 80-point mark in seven games in that span.
The Jacks are 7-2 when winning the rebounding battle and 2-3 when being out-rebounded. Twice this year the Jacks have posted a plus-20 rebounding margin. SDSU was 16-1 when outrebounding its opponent last year and 2-16 in games with the same or fewer rebounds. State currently sits fourth nationally with 540 total rebounds.
South Dakota State forced 11 steals against Concordia (Neb.) on Dec. 8, tallying 10-or-more steals in a game for the first time since Nov. 19, 2015 at Illinois State (11).
Six Jackrabbits reached double figures against Concordia (Neb.) on Dec. 8 for the first time in a game since Feb. 28, 2013 at Omaha.
Three times this season the Jackrabbits have had two players score over 20 points in the same game. Mike Daum and David Jenkins Jr. did it against Alabama State (34 and 20) and Ole Miss (26 and 22).
South Dakota State is now eight wins away from the program's 1,500th victory. The Jacks won their 500th game in Frost Arena last season.
2017-18 marked the third time State has started 3-0 at the Division I level (dating back to transition year of 2004-05). The Jacks also did it in 2010-11 and 2015-16, when the team started an Division I-best 6-0.
At least one Jackrabbit has scored in double figures over the last 323 games dating back to Jan. 12, 2008 at IUPUI when Anthony Cordova had nine points to lead the Jacks.
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 snapped a streak of 90 games without a 1,000 point scorer when Mike Daum joined the club on Jan. 21, 2017. SDSU has now restarted a streak of 27 games with at least one 1,000-point scorer on the court.
State has made at least one 3-pointer in 352 consecutive 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.
SDSU is 92-18 all-time in home openers (where records available). Dating back to 2004-05, SDSU's first year of DI transition, SDSU is 12-2.
SDSU is 73-39 in season-openers all-time. The Jacks are 6-8 in season-opening games at the Division I level.

Jacks Fifth at Cayman Islands Classic
South Dakota State took fifth at the inaugural Cayman Islands Classic, closing the tournament with wins over Iowa and Buffalo after falling in its first game to Wyoming.

Reed Tellinghuisen was named to the Cayman Classic All-Tournament Team, averaging 12.7 points and 4.0 rebounds per game. Mike Daum led all Jackrabbits with 54 total points at the tournament, hitting double figures all three games, including a season-best 34 against Buffalo.

David Jenkins Jr. shot 41.2 percent (7 of 17) beyond the arc, adding 14.7 points and 4.7 rebounds per game while Tevin King, playing 26.3 minutes per game, dished out five assists, came up with eight steals, scored 31 points (10.3 ppg) and grabbed 17 rebounds (5.7 per game).

No. 12 Cincinnati won the tournament, beating Wyoming in the finals.

SDSU Signs Three
Owen King, Aaron Fiegen and Matthew Mimms signed their National Letters of Intent to join South Dakota State, announced Nov. 11 on National Signing Day.

King (Caledonia, Minnesota) averaged 19 points, five rebounds and six assists per game as a junior for Caledonia High School. He enters his senior season as the school's all-time leading scorer (1,925 points)
Fiegen (Madison, South Dakota) was a First Team All-State pick last year, averaging 15.5 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.1 assists per game in 2016-17.
Mimms (Fairfax, Iowa) is a two-time Iowa State Champion with Xavier High School. He averaged 15.5 points, five assists and 2.3 steals per game as a junior.

Preseason All-Conference Team; Jacks Picked First
Mike Daum and Reed Tellinghuisen made repeat appearances on the Summit League's Preseason All-League teams, announced early-October. Daum was the Preseason Player of the Year with First Team honors while Tellinghuisen picked a Second Team nod for the second straight season.

Daum is the second Jackrabbit to be named Preseason All-Conference and the first to do it twice, joining Nate Wolters (2012-13).

As a team, South Dakota State was picked to win the league for the fourth time in program history.

SDSU Last Time Out (Dec. 15, 2017)
BOULDER, Colo. -- Mike Daum and David Jenkins Jr. combined for 68 points Friday night at Colorado, but the Jacks fell 112-103 in a tightly-contested double overtime game at Coors Event Center.

Playing in front of 6,933 fans, SDSU (9-5) had four in double figures and hit 13 3-pointers, storming back from an early double-digit deficit to force overtime, but the comeback effort came up short as CU recovered momentum and secured the win in the second overtime period.

Daum hit 14 field goals in the game en route to 37 points, adding 10 rebounds for his 16th career double-double and fifth of the season. Jenkins notched his first career 30-point game, burying a career-high seven 3-pointers to finish with 31 points.

Brandon Key was 4-for-4 at the charity stripe on his way to 12 points while leading the team with five assists, and Reed Tellinghuisen had 10 points, all in the second half.

The Jacks dealt with a hot-handed Buffaloes team in the first, as CU hit seven 3-pointers in the opening 10 minutes of the game to take a double-digit lead early, but Daum kept the Jacks in the game with 21 of SDSU's first 25 points.

Down 28-17 just outside of the under-eight media timeout, a pair of Daum free throws started State on a burst of six unanswered to cut the deficit to five (30-28) with 6:46 on the clock.

Soon after, Jenkins stepped up with a couple treys to pull the Jacks within four (37-33) near the two-minute mark, but Colorado recovered and closed the half with a 43-36 lead.

The second half was a series of back-and-forth momentum swings, as SDSU climbed within five four times before the under-16 media, but were turned back from the charge each time.

State continued to chip away, however, and after back-to-back 3-pointers from Jenkins and Tellinghuisen made it a one-point game (60-59) with less than 10 to go, and SDSU used the energy boost to climb over the hump and take its first lead of the night at 7:26, 66-65 on a Chris Howell jumper.

Soon after, CU went back on top but saw the Jacks answer again-and-again, tying it six times down the stretch until the final 30 seconds, when the ball was placed Daum's hands, and down 86-84, and the big man was fouled with 6.5 seconds on the clock. He buried both free throws, and Colorado missed a jumper on the ensuing possession as the game went to overtime.

The Jackrabbits began the extra period with a 8-2 run, but after building a 94-88 lead with two minutes remaining saw the Buffs draw back even, 94-all, with 26 seconds left. State had a look at a game-winner, but did not score as another five minutes was added to the clock.

The comeback ran out of steam in the second overtime, as Colorado outscored SDSU by nine in the period to seal the win.

Opponent Last Time Out (Dec. 16, 2017)
GoDrakeBulldogs.com
DES MOINES, Iowa – The Drake University men's basketball team couldn't overcome costly turnovers and a tall Iowa lineup Saturday afternoon as the Bulldogs lost to Iowa, 90-64, in the first game of the Hy-Vee Classic at Wells Fargo Arena.

The Hawkeyes, the nation's seventh tallest team, used their height advantage to force Drake, the nation's eighth shortest team, to take tough shots as well as cutting off passing lanes inside. Iowa tallied 52 points in the paint, doubling Drake's total and the Hawkeyes outrebounded the Bulldogs, 41-24. Iowa's size also helped force Drake (5-6) into 19 turnovers which Iowa took advantage of with 25 points off turnovers.

"I'm disappointed in how we played today," said Drake head coach Niko Medved. "That's a good Iowa team that is a really tough matchup for us, physically. But I feel like we really didn't give ourselves a chance with the turnovers."

Junior Nick McGlynn (Stoughton, Wis.) led the Bulldogs with 14 points despite only playing 15 minutes due to foul trouble. Senior Reed Timmer (New Berlin, Wis.) recorded 13 points and three assists.

"I think we're a lot better team that what we showed," Timmer said. "We have to be better and we'll get better."

Iowa (6-6) had four players score in double figures and were led by Tyler Cook with a game-high 23 points on 10-of-13 shooting. Jordan Bohannon tallied 15 points and seven assists, while Nicholas Baer registered a double-double with 14 rebounds and 11 points. Freshman Luka Garza managed to score 13 of Iowa's 27 points off the bench.

"Baer was really good today," Medved said. "He played with a lot of energy and was a key for them today."

Drake came out of the gate with energy, getting on the board first with a McGlynn alley-oop off a pass from De'Antae McMurray (Alton, Ill.). After that, both teams traded punches and Iowa led by one, 7-6, at the first media timeout.

With 7:15 left in the opening half, freshman Noah Thomas drained a three-pointer, giving Drake which would be its largest lead of the game, 25-21.

"We played hard early, but the turnovers were really deflating," Medved said. "We had a chance there and the game was in the balance. We'd get a stop and give it right back to them. That took the wind out of our sails."

Iowa increased its defensive pressure with a three-quarter court press, turning it into a 13-0 run and taking a 34-25 led with 3:32 left in the half. Drake's Graham Woodward (Edina, Minn.) nailed a three-pointer to stop the run, but Iowa went on to take a 40-33 lead into halftime.

The Bulldogs shot 50 percent from three-point range in the first half, including a pair of threes for McMurray and Woodward. McMurray and Woodward finished their afternoons with 11 and six points, respectively.

The second-half began with the scoring going back and forth for the first few minutes, before the Hawkeyes used a 15-5 run to take a 63-44 lead with 11:54 left in the game. After Iowa took a 25-point lead, 75-50, the Bulldogs battled back with their largest run of the game, 8-0, to cut Iowa's lead to 17 points, 75-58, with 6:39 left to play. However, Drake's push didn't last long enough as Iowa brought their lead back up to 21, 79-58 with four minutes to go. That sizeable deficit was too much for the Bulldogs to overcome in the final few minutes as Iowa cruised to the 90-64 victory.

-GoJacks.com-