Jacks, Bulldogs clash Thursday in NCAA Tournament

Gameday Information

Date/Time	Thursday, March 16 \| Noon MT / 1 p.m. CT
Location	Salt Lake City, Utah \| Vivint Smart Home Arena
Television	TBS \| Andrew Catalon (Play-by-play), Steve Lappas (Analyst), Jamie Erdahl (Reporter)
Live Stream (Video)	NCAA.com
Live Stream (Audio)	NCAA.com \| WestwoodOneSports.com/SLC
Mobile	NCAA March Madness Live app
Radio (Jackrabbit Sports Network)	WNAX 570 AM / 99.9 FM \| Tyler Merriam
Radio (Westwood One)	Station Listings: www.WestwoodOneSports.com/stations Sirius Channel 145 and XM Channel 206 Kevin Kugler (Play-By-Play), Dan Dickau (Analyst)
Live Stats	GoJacks.com \| NCAA.com
Game Notes (PDF)	South Dakota State \| Gonzaga

The Setup

No. 16 seed South Dakota State men's basketball team will play No. 1 seed Gonzaga in the opening round of West Region action in the NCAA Tournament Thursday in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Game time is set for Noon MT / 1 p.m. CT from Vivint Smart Home Arena, which is the home of the Utah Jazz.
SDSU, 18-16 overall, is seeded 16th in the West Region and will be making its fourth trip to the NCAA Tournament in six years after winning the Summit League tournament championship and earning the league's automatic bid.
Gonzaga, the regular season and tournament champion of the West Coast Conference, is 32-1 overall.
The Jackrabbits and Bulldogs have met once all-time in a 1956 New Year's Eve matchup in Brookings, S.D. The Jacks won that contest, 88-78.

Scouting the Bulldogs

Gonzaga enters the tournament with a 31-1 mark and a No. 4 national ranking in the USA Today and Associated Press polls.
The Bulldogs nearly completed a perfect regular season, falling in their finale against BYU before running through the West Coast Conference tournament to earn the league's automatic bid.
Nigel Williams-Goss paces the team with 16.9 points per game as one of five Bulldogs averaging double figures, joining Przemek Karnowski (12.6 ppg), Jordan Mathews (10.4 ppg), Zach Collins (10.2 ppg) and Johnathan Williams (10.2 ppg) in that category.
On the boards, Williams pulls down 6.5 rebounds per contest (213 total) while Karnowski is averaging 6.0 rebounds per game (199 total). Close behind is Williams-Goss with a 5.7 rpg average (183 total).
Williams-Goss has dished out 153 assists for the year, averaging 4.8 per contest while putting together a 2.3 assist-to-turnover ratio through 32 games played.
Gonzaga ranks first nationally with a plus-23.4 scoring margin for the year and sits fourth in points per possession while scoring 84.6 points per contest.
The Bulldogs carry a 51.8 percent mark on field goals in the tournament (second-best nationally) while shooting 38.2 percent beyond the arc. Gonzaga has gotten to the line 740 times this season, hitting 546 free throws (73.8 percent).
Defensively, Gonzaga is allowing just 61.2 points per contest (No. 8 in NCAA Division I) while limiting opponents to 36.8 percent from the field and 30 percent shooting beyond the arc (No. 8 nationally).
Williams-Goss was named a First Team All-American by Sports Illustrated last weekin addition to being named the WCC's Player of the Year. He is also one of five finalists for the Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year award while being a Naismith Trophy semifinalist and earning a spot on the Wood Award National Ballot.
Karnowski is one of five finalists for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year Award in addition to earning All-WCC First Team honors.
Williams-Goss, Karnowski, Williams, Collins, Mathews and Josh Perkins were all-WCC picks.
Head coach Mark Few is in his 18th season with the Bulldogs and sports a 498-112 record on the sideline. He was named Coach of the Year by Sporting News, USA Today, USBWA (District XI) and the West Coast Conference along with being placed on the Naismith Coach of the Year semifinal list.

Jacks in the NCAA Tournament

Four Jackrabbits on this year's roster - Mike Daum, Tevin King, Reed Tellinghuisen and Ian Theisen - have logged minutes in the NCAA Tournament.
Skyler Flatten, Beau Brown, Adam Dykman and Lane Severyn were on last year's team but did not appear in the NCAA Tournament game with Maryland while Michael Orris was a member of the 2012-13 Kansas State team that qualified for the NCAA Tournament, though he did not play.
Though State has not won a game in its three prior NCAA Tournament appearances, the Jacks were close to a pair of upsets in 2011-12 and 2015-16.
In the 2012 Tournament, SDSU trailed No. 3 seed Baylor by four with less than a minute to play, but saw the Bears win 68-60.
Last year, in the 2016 Tournament, SDSU charged back from an 18-point deficit to Maryland and trailed by just two with 13 seconds on the clock, but saw Maryland pull out the 79-74 win.
A summary of the Jackrabbits' Division I NCAA Tournament experience is below ...

2011-12	2012-13	2015-16
South Regional, Second Round	South Regional, Second Round	South Regional, Second Round
The Pit - Albuquerque, N.M.	The Palace - Auburn Hills, Mich.	Spokane Arena, Spokane, Wash.
Thursday, March 15, 2012	Thursday, March 21, 2013	Thursday, March 18, 2016
No. 3 seed Baylor 68	No. 4 sed Michigan 71	No. 5 seed Maryland 79
No. 14 seed South Dakota State 60	No. 13 seed South Dakota State 56	No. 12 seed South Dakota State 74

Daum named Player of the Year

Jackrabbit sophomore Mike Daum was named The Summit League's Player of the Year March 2 by the conference.
Daum is now a two-time All-Summit League First Team selection after earning the honors last year alongside gaining a nod for the All-Newcomer Team and Newcomer of the Year award.
Daum was the Preseason Player of the Year and lived up to the hype, earning weekly honors three times in addition to being the National Player of the Week Feb. 20. He was the league's December Athlete of the Month and is nominated for February's honor.
Read more about Daum's highlights on page six of the game notes.

From Long Range

SDSU has set school records in 3-pointers made and attempted this season as the NCAA Tournament begins. The Jacks are 313 of 863 on 3-point attempts this season. The previous record for makes was 284 (set in 2011-12) and the former record in attempts was 732 (set in 2014-15).
South Dakota State has attempted fewer than 20 3-pointers in a game just five times this season. The Jacks average 25.4 3-point attempts per contest and are 32nd nationally with 9.2 3-pointers made per game.
As of March 12, the Jacks rank 12th in NCAA Division I in 3-point attempts (863) and are 20th nationally in 3-pointers made (318), shooting at 36.3 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. He reset the school record for attempts in a game Feb. 18 with 18 at Fort Wayne.
Mike Daum (77), Reed Tellinghuisen (73), A.J. Hess (66) are all at or above 60 made 3-pointers this season and either rank amongst or are are closing in on the top 10 of SDSU's single season record list. Daum is now tied for fifth on the list while Reed Tellinghuisen is tied for ninth with 73.
Reed Tellinghuisen ranks second on SDSU's single-season 3-point attempts record list with 212 this year and is one shy of Clint Sargent's mark of 213, set in 2010-11.
A.J. Hess is 10th on the attempts record list with 177 this season.

Charity Stripe Success

South Dakota State has gotten to the free throw line more than its opponents in 26 of 34 games this season. The Jackrabbits are shooting 77.6 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 March 12, South Dakota State ranks 42nd in free throw attempts (771), 14th in free throws made (598) and ninth in free throw percentage (.776).
SDSU leads the conference in field goal percentage and makes and is second in attempts
From Dec. 7 to Dec. 22, MikeDaum 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 NCAA Division I record with 16 made free throws (out of 16 attempts) against Murray State (Dec. 18) and tied it Feb. 18 at Fort Wayne.
Daum is one free throw short of the school's single season makes record (251) and is 14 free throw attempts shy of the school's single season attempts mark (301).
As of March 12, Daum remains the national leader in free throw makes and attempts.

#FearFrost

The Jacks own a 74-5 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 93.7 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

Tellinghuisen scored 16 points against South Dakota in the Summit League Quarterfinals, and with a pair of free throws with just over one second remaining, became the 47th member of the Jackrabbits' 1,000-point club. He now ranks 43rd with 1,011 points.
Reed Tellinghuisen has hit double figures in 23 of 34 games this season, pushing his career mark in that category to 51 games with double figures.
SDSU owns two of the top four NCAA scoring performances in the last five seasons (Wolters - 53 in 2013 vs Fort Wayne, Daum - 51 in 2017 vs Fort Wayne).
A.J. Hess went down with an arm injury at Denver on Jan. 23 but made his return to the court Feb. 18 at Fort Wayne. He reappeared in the starting lineup Feb. 25 against Denver and dropped 14 points on his Senior Day.
After seeing limited action with a 2.8 ppg average through the non-conference portion of 2016-17, Chris Howell burst onto the scene as a top scoring option in the second half of the year. Howell is now averaging 7.7 points per game with an 11.4 scoring average in conference games, hitting double figures in 10 of the last 11 games.
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 66 assists over the last 13 games after tallying just 26 in his first 10 appearances of the season. 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 16 conference games, Michael Orris posted a 1.9 assist-to-turnover ratio with 74 assists and 39 turnovers.
Reed Tellinghuisen lead The Summit League with ranks second in The Summit League with 1,116 total minutes played this season.
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 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 reached double figures in seven consecutive games before going down, and hit the mark in 12 of his final 14 appearances in the regular season.
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. He now has 1,115 points for his career.
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.
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.

Team Quick Hits

Prior to SDSU's Summit League Tournament semifinal win, the last time a team overcame a 10-point halftime deficit to win a Summit League Tournament game was March 10, 2009 when NDSU came back from 14 down to defeat Oakland in the championship.
SDSU's Summit League semifinal game marked the third time in its last five Summit League Tournament contests the Jacks had faced a deficit of 13 or more points and came back to win.
South Dakota State has scored 50 or more in a half six times this season, including five second half performances of 50 or greater that have led to wins against Omaha, Oral Roberts, IUPUI and Fort Wayne in the final five weeks of the regular season.
Winning the rebounding battle has been vital to SDSU's success this year. The Jacks are 16-1 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 14 times this season.
The Jacks are 39th nationally and lead the conference with just 16.7 personal fouls per game.
At least one Jackrabbit has scored in double figures over the last 310 games dating back to Jan. 12, 2008 at IUPUI when Anthony Cordova has nine points to lead the Jacks.
10 times this season the Jacks have seen four players reach double figures. The Jacks last did it March 6 when Michael Orris (20), Mike Daum (18), Reed Tellinghuisen (16) and Chris Howell (11) did it against South Dakota in the . 25 when Mike Daum (30), A.J. Hess (14), Chris Howell (11) and Skyler Flatten (11) did it against Denver in the regular season finale.
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.
SDSU has made at least one 3-pointer in 338 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 12 games with at least one 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 -- March 7, 2017
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- For the fourth time in six years, South Dakota State is dancing. The No. 4 seed Jackrabbit men's basketball program claimed a 79-77 slugfest victory over No. 3 seed Omaha in Tuesday's Summit League Tournament Championship to earn an automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive season.
Playing in front of 9,441 fans, SDSU (18-16) hit 48.3 percent of its field goals and finished the game 13 of 14 at the charity stripe. The Jacks were strong on the boards with a plus-19 rebounding margin, including a 24-9 advantage in second half rebounds.
Tournament MVP Mike Daum and Chris Howell combined for 36 of State's 42 second-half points, leading the way on a team that offset 19 turnovers with 25 second-chance points.
Daum posted his ninth double-double of the year with 37 total points and 12 rebounds, while Chris Howell scored 12 points and Reed Tellinghuisen added 11.
SDSU came out sluggish and committed six turnovers in the opening four minutes, facing a 13-5 deficit at the under-16 media timeout. Moments later, down 16-7, the Jacks broke out on a 12-4 run to cut it to one, 20-19, when Ian Theisen sank a 3-pointer at 11:41.
The teams traded buckets from there before a Tellinghuisen 3-pointer gave the Jackrabbits their first lead of the night with 6:25 to go in the half. Four more lead changes followed before State scored the final seven points of the half and carried a 37-31 lead into the break.
Omaha came out firing in the second, tearing off nine unanswered points in the opening 55 seconds to regain the lead and force a Jackrabbit timeout.
SDSU answered with five straight to take back the lead, 42-40, and the teams traded punches over the next three minutes before SDSU went on a 9-2 run and opened a 55-50 lead with 13:55 to play.
Omaha scored the next eight as the heavyweight fight continued, and neither team led by more than one possession until the Mavericks went up 72-68 with five minutes left.
The Jacks answered immediately with a quick five-point spurt to go back on top, and though the Mavs continued to threaten, SDSU never relinquished the lead as Omaha missed two three-point attempts in the final 12 seconds.

Bulldogs' Last Time Out -- March 7, 2017
(GoZags.com)
LAS VEGAS (AP) Gonzaga coach Mark Few brought in veteran transfers and one of the best recruiting classes in school history this season, a group that's been called the best in his 18-year tenure as head coach.
The Zags have lived up to the hype so far, nearly pulling off an undefeated regular season and earning another West Coast Conference Tournament title. Next up could be another No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Nigel Williams-Goss scored 22 points, Przemek Karnowski added 15 and No. 4 Gonzaga won its fifth straight WCC tournament title by beating No. 19 Saint Mary's 74-56 Tuesday night.
Gonzaga (32-1), the regular-season WCC champion, was not particularly sharp in the WCC semifinals, beating Santa Clara by nine to reach the title game for the 20th straight season.
The Zags got their mojo back in a dazzling first half against Saint Mary's, then had to hold on after a shaky start to the second.
Gonzaga shot 50 percent overall, scored 20 points off turnovers and had a 38-22 advantage inside, staking claim to a potential No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Saint Mary's (28-4) fought back after an ugly first half with a big charge in the second. The Gaels could not make it all the way back from a 21-point deficit, though, losing to the Zags for the third time this season.
Calvin Hermanson had 14 points and Jock Landale 10 for the Gaels, who must wait out selection Sunday for the second straight season.
Gonzaga and Saint Mary's in the WCC final has become an annual tradition.
The conference's top two teams have met in the title game seven of the past nine years, with the Zags winning six titles.
Gonzaga won the two regular-season meetings this year fairly easily, but Saint Mary's had it easy in the WCC semifinals, beating BYU by 31 after hitting 13 3-pointers.
The Gaels didn't have the same shooting touch against Gonzaga's smothering defense, needing nearly 11 minutes just to crack double figures scoring. Saint Mary's was discombobulated offensively throughout the first half, hitting 6 of 28 shots and turning it over 10 times while scoring 18 first-half points.
Gonzaga turned the missed shots and turnovers into baskets in transition , using a 12-0 run to build a 39-18 halftime lead .
The Gaels were better to start the second, shutting the Zags down while trimming the lead to 51-46 midway through.
They got no closer. Landale had to leave after picking up his fourth foul and Gonzaga took advantage, stretching the lead back to double digits.

-GoJacks.com-

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