Jacks host IUPUI in pivotal midweek game

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The Setup

South Dakota State hosts IUPUI this Wednesday with tipoff set for 7 p.m., from Frost Arena.
SDSU enters the week 12-16 overall with a 5-8 mark in conference play. IUPUI is 11-15 for the season and 5-7 in The Summit League. With three games remaining, IUPUI sits in a tie for sixth in the conference standings with Western Illinois, while the Jacks currently hold the No. 8 spot. SDSU, though, is just one game out of fifth place as The Summit League Tournament in Sioux Falls, South Dakota approaches.
The Jackrabbits and Jaguars have squared off 21 times prior to tonight's action, with the Jacks holding a 13-8 lead in the series. The Jacks have won eight of the last 10 matchups and haven't lost at home to IUPUI since 2009-10.
Earlier this season, State lost a narrow 85-83 overtime contests at IUPUI on Jan. 18. In that game, Michael Orris led the Jacks with 20 points while A.J. Hess and Ian Theisen reached double figures as well. For IUPUI, Ron Patterson put up 19 points and Darell Combs had 18.

Samaritan's Feet

Samaritan's Feet International is a humanitarian aid organization that shares a message of love and hope through washing the feet of children and adults and blessing them with a new pair of shoes and socks.
Wednesday night is SDSU's annual Samaritan Feet game, where head coaches T.J. Otzelberger and Jason Gardner will go barefoot to help draw awareness to the need for shoes both here in the U.S. and around the world.
Samaritan's Feet was founded in 2003 and since that time, has distributed almost 7 million pairs of shoes in over 78 countries and 325 U.S. cities. Since 2012, almost 13,000 pairs of shoes have been distributed in SD at 29 events in Brookings, Sioux Falls, Watertown, Yankton, Pine Ridge and Rapid City.
Donations from tonight's game will go to support the efforts of SDSU student-athletes who will be traveling to Haiti in May on a Jackrabbit FCA/Samaritan's Feet mission trip. Donations can be made at Frost Arena or online at www.samaritansfeet.org/Jackrabbits.

Scouting the Jaguars

Tied for sixth in The Summit League standings with just three games remaining in the regular season, IUPUI comes to Frost Arena with an 11-15 overall mark and a 5-7 record in conference.
The Jaguars split a pair of games last week, defeating Omaha on the road before a 74-68 home loss to Oral Roberts on Saturday. The Jaguars are 7-3 at home but just 4-12 away from Indianapolis.
Darell Combs has started all 26 games for IUPUI this season and leads the team with 16.5 points per game and 76 assists (tied for team-high).
Big man Matt O'Leary is second in scoring for the Jags at 13.8 points per game while he paces the team on the boards, grabbing 6.2 per contest.
Kellon Thomas (26 starts) and Ron Patterson (10 starts) are close behind with scoring averages of 9.6. Thomas is even with Combs for the team-lead in assists (76) while Patterson has 34 steals. From the field, Evan Hall (7.5 ppg) is shooting a team-best 57.5 percent while grabbing 5.5 rebounds per game.
IUPUI is scoring and allowing 78.6 points per game as a team while shooting 45.4 percent from the field. Beyond the arc, the Jaguars have hit 239 of their 600 attempts (39.8 percent). At the line, IUPUI is shooting 68.8 percent and has attempted 513 free throws.
On the boards, the Jaguars hold a narrow plus-0.2 advantage in rebounding margin with 35.2 rebounds per game.
Opponents are shooting 46.8 percent on field goals against the Jaguars and are 36.7 percent from long range (188 of 512). IUPUI has allowed opponents to get to the line 593 times this season whre opponents are shooting 75.7 percent combined.

From Long Range

SDSU has fired 723 3-pointers this season, up from 604 3-point attempts through 28 games last year.
The school record for 3-point attempts in a season is 732, set in 2014-15. This year's team is currently in the No. 3 spot on that list.
The school record for 3-pointers made in a season is 284 (2011-12). SDSU has made 263 3-pointer through 28 games and sit fifth on that record list currently (No. 4 is 270).
South Dakota State has attempted fewer than 20 3-pointers in a game just three times this season. The Jacks average 25.8 3-point attempts per contest and are 26th nationally with 9.4 3-pointers made per game.
As of Feb. 13, the Jacks rank seventh in NCAA Division I in 3-point attempts (723) and are 10th nationally in 3-pointers made (263), shooting at 36.4 percent beyond the arc.
SDSU leads the conference in 3-point attempts and is second in 3-pointers made.
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 have set a new school single-game record for 3-pointers made twice this season. Entering 2016-17, the previous mark was 15, set at Oakland on Dec. 31, 2008. SDSU hit 16 at Idaho on Nov. 21 and reset the record Jan. 21, 2017 against Fort Wayne, sinking 17 from long range.
Mike Daum set a school record for 3-pointers made and attempted against Fort Wayne on Jan. 21, going 10 of 16 beyond the arc. Daum's 10 3-pointers made is fourth most in Summit League history.
Through 23 appearances this season, A.J. Hess is just outside the top 10 of 3-pointers made (No. 10 is 68) and attempted (No. 10 is 176).

Charity Stripe Success

South Dakota State has gotten to the free throw line more than its opponents in 22 of 28 games this season. The Jackrabbits are shooting 77.0 percent on free throws this season, have four players at or above the 80 percent mark and eight active players shooting above 70 percent on free throws.
As of Feb. 13, South Dakota State ranks 28th in free throw attempts (626), ninth nationally in free throws made (482) and 13th in free throw percentage (.770).
SDSU is third in the conference in free throw attempts while sitting second in makes and first in percentage.
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 Feb. 13, Mike Daum remains the national leader in free throw makes (192) and is second in attempts (222).

#FearFrost

The Jacks own a 72-5 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 ranked as the nation's second longest active streak when it ended Wednesday, Dec. 28. The streak began Jan. 30, 2014.
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 93.5 percent of its home games, a mark that ranks fifth 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.

Player Quick Hits

Feb. 4 against Oral Roberts marked the first time South Dakota State had two players post double-doubles since Nov. 11, 2014 when Cody Larson and Zach Horstman did it. Against ORU, Mike Daum had 38 points and 17 rebounds and Chris Howell finished with 20 points and 12 rebounds.
After seeing limited action with a 2.8 ppg average in the non-conference portion of 2016-17, Chris Howell has burst onto the scene as a top scoring option in conference play. Howell is averaging 11.0 points per game in 11 Summit League contests and has reached double figures in the four of the last five, recorded career-highs in two of those. Howell had 16 points and six rebounds at Omaha, 15 points and four rebounds against Western Illinois before tallying his first Jackrabbit double-double, finishing with 20 points and 12 rebounds against Oral Roberts.
Reed Tellinghuisen went off for a career-high 28 points and eight 3-pointers at South Dakota on Feb. 11, 2017, helping the Jacks recover from a 14-point deficit with five 3-pointers in the second half. SDSU lost the game but Tellinghuisen led all scorers.
Michael Orris has 41 assists over the last seven games after tallying 26 assists in the nine games prior. He had a career-high 10 assists against Fort Wayne on Jan. 21, which was the most for a Jackrabbit since Nate Wolters went for 12 against Fort Wayne on March 11, 2013.
In 11 conference games, Michael Orris has a 1.9 assist-to-turnover ratio with 58 assists and 30 turnovers.
Reed Tellinghuisen has hit double figures in 19 of 28 games this season, pushing his career mark in that category to 47 games with double figures. Tellinghuisen is second on the active career scoring list and could join the 1,000 points club by the end of the season.
Reed Tellinghuisen ranks 30th nationally and second in The Summit League with 924 total minutes played this season.
A.J. Hess went down with an arm injury at Denver on Jan. 23. He is not expected to be available this week.
Ian Theisen has missed the last three games with a lower leg injury. He is not expected to be play this week.
After a slow start to the season where A.J. Hess scored just 11 points total in the first four games, the graduate transfer raised his average to 10.8 points per game with 14 double figure scoring games and a double-double before an injury stalled his graduate transfer season. Hess has reached double figures in six consecutive games he has appeared in and in 10 of his last 11.
A.J. Hess came to South Dakota State with 840 career points at Southern Utah. On Dec. 28, 2016, Hess scored his 1,000 career point against North Dakota State.
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.
A.J. Hess pulled down 42 total rebounds over 15 non-conference games to open the year, but in the first half of conference play Hess had 51 over eight games. Hess set career-highs in rebounds against North Dakota State (10) and Western Illinois (14).
Seven times this season the Jacks have seen four players reach double figures. The Jacks last did it Feb. 1 when Michael Orris (18), Reed Tellinghuisen (17), Mike Daum (16), Skyler Flatten (16) and Chris Howell (15) reached the mark against Western Illinois.
Four times this season South Dakota State has had two players score over 20 points in the same game. It last happened Feb. 11, 2017 at South Dakota when Reed Tellinghuisen scored 28 and Mike Daum finished with 22. Daum has been a part of all three occurances this year.
SDSU has had five different players hit double figures in a game three times 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 and against Western Illinois Feb. 1.
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.

Team Quick Hits

Winning the rebounding battle has been vital to SDSU's success this year. The Jacks are 10-1 in games they out-rebound opponents and 1-12 in contests they trail in rebounding margin. State is 1-3 in games it matches opponents on rebounds.
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 13 times this season.
The Jacks are 25th nationally and lead the conference with just 16.2 personal fouls per game.
At least one Jackrabbit has scored in double figures over the last 304 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 332 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.
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 six games with a 1,000 point scorer on the court.
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 -- Feb. 11, 2017
VERMILLION, S.D. -- South Dakota State stormed back from 14-down to set up a wild finish in front of 5,265 fans at the Sanford Coyote Sports Center Saturday, but eventually fell 91-89 to in-state rival South Dakota.
SDSU (12-16, 5-8 Summit League) finished over 50 percent from the field for the eighth time this season, hitting 30 of 58 attempts (51.7 percent) including 13 3-pointers. At the line, SDSU was 16 of 20.
USD (18-10, 9-4 Summit League) shot 52.4 percent on field goals and 14 of 28 beyond the arc.
The rebounding battle proved to be the difference as SDSU was out-boarded, 37-27, and allowed 15 offensive rebounds that led to a five-point USD edge in second chance points.
Reed Tellinghuisen led all scorers with a career-high 28 points and sank eight 3-pointers. Mike Daum added 22 as both Jacks snagged six boards while Michael Orris added 14 points for SDSU. Chris Howell led the team with seven boards.
Momentum swings told the story all night, as both teams held seven-point leads in the first half that didn't hold up. USD opened up a 13-6 lead through the opening four minutes before SDSU responded and built a seven-point lead of its own, 34-26, at 7:44. That advantage didn't hold up either, however, as the Jacks were outscored by 12 over the final seven minutes and went to the locker room down 49-43.
Down 14 with 15:19 to play, SDSU put together a 26-11 run that included five Tellinghuisen 3-pointers to regain the lead at 6:13. Up 76-75 at that point, the Jacks and Coyotes traded punches until Matt Mooney sunk three consecutive 3-pointers to push USD ahead for good.
Still, the Jacks didn't quit and kept things interesting, cutting the lead to one with eight seconds remaining on a Daum bank-shot. USD's Trey Burch-Manning missed both free throws with 3.8 seconds on the clock to give State a chance, but Tellinghuisen's 50-footer hit the side of the rim as time expired.

Jaguars' Last Time Out -- Feb. 11, 2017
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INDIANAPOLIS - IUPUI's two-game winning streak came to a disheartening end on Saturday night (Feb. 11) as the Jaguars fell to Oral Roberts at home, 74-68. The loss dropped the Jaguars to 5-7 in Summit League play, and 11-15 overall for the season. The loss was only the third of the season at the Coliseum, dropping their home record to 6-3 on the year.
Oral Roberts (8-19, 4-9 Summit) snapped a five game skid and collected its first road win of the season.
The Jags struggled coming out of the gate, hitting only two of their first eight shots. They began to find their range around the 10 minute mark and were sparked by back-to-back trifectas from sophomore T.J. Henderson. However, the lid on the rim remained tight as the two teams traded baskets throughout the half. A late 17-5 run by Oral Roberts left the Jags with some work to do heading into the locker room as they trailed 42-31 at the break.
Overall, the Jags had a tough time shooting from all over the floor in the first half, going 12-of-29 from the field, 7-of-17 from three. An empty-handed 0-of-5 from the free throw line compounded the shooting woes. On the other end, Oral Roberts converted almost every trip down. The Golden Eagles went 15-of-25 from the floor, including 5-of-9 from three and a perfect 7-of-7 from the charity stripe to reach their 11-point margin at the break.
The Jaguars found a little bit of rhythm to open the second half, and chipped away the Oral Roberts lead. Combs scored seven straight for the Jags, and they cut the deficit down to 50-46. The Golden Eagles responded with a 7-0 run of their own, and stretched the lead back up to 57-46.
Trailing by 13 with just under 10 minutes to play, Aaron Brennan scored six straight to spark a 10-0 run to close the gap to 63-60 with 4:30 to play. However, the Jaguars were never able to fully overcome the deficit. A Darell Combs jumper made it 65-62, but Oral Roberts answered every basket. Trailing 72-68 with under 20 seconds to go, a Ron Patterson three was off the mark and Oral Roberts secured the rebound, all but sealing the game.
Combs scored 13 of his team-high 18 points in the second half and Brennan added 14 of his own. Senior Kellon Thomas rounded out the Jags in double-figures with 13 while Henderson went 3-of-3 from distance to account for his nine points.
Oral Roberts was led by Aaron Anderson who had 18 and Kris Martin and Albert Owens each had 16 apiece. Jalen Bradley contributed 13 points of his own.

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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