South Dakota State goes back on the road to take on North Dakota and North Dakota State this weekend. The Jacks play in Grand Forks, N.D. Thursday night against UND.
The Jacks ran their win streak to 11 games last weekend and remain unbeaten at 11-0 in Summit action. The team is 18-5 overall and 4-2 on the road this season.
North Dakota is 12-8 overall and 5-5 in conference action. The Fighting Hawks have not lost at home this season - 10-0. Most recently, UND beat its in-state rival NDSU 82-73 last weekend.
KEY STORYLINES
- South Dakota State heads north this weekend to take on North Dakota and North Dakota State.
- The Jacks bring an unbeaten Summit mark into the weekend. At 11-0, not only is SDSU the only team with a perfect mark, the team is also the only squad with fewer than three league losses.
- Within Summit League pay, SDSU holds a 24.7 PPG scoring margin over its opponents. The next closest margin is 3.7 PPG (NDSU).
- SDSU also leads the conference in a number of other statistical categories, including scoring offense (86.7), scoring defense (62.0), scoring field goal percentage (.492) and rebounding (42.1).
- Myah Selland is 19 points shy of reaching 2,000 career points. She will become the second Jackrabbit in program history and the seventh player in the history of the Summit League.
- Myah Selland averages more than 16 points and six rebounds per game to lead the Jackrabbits. She has put up double figures in each of the last 16 contests. Paiton Burckhard and Haleigh Timmer also average double digits, scoring 11.3 and 10.8 points per game, respectively.
- Three of the top four players on the Summit League assist/turnover ratio chart are Jackrabbits. Tori Nelson ranks first (3.2), followed by Dru Gylten in second (2.8) and Paige Meyer in fourth (1.8).
- Paige Meyer is a top contributor off the bench for the Jacks with 8.7 points, 3.3 assists, 2.5 rebounds and 1.8 steals per game.
- South Dakota State ranks 11th in the NCAA in rebounding margin (9.9) and 19th in defensive rebounds per game (29.9). The team ranks 17th in field goal percentage (46.6) and 18th in assists per game 17.0)
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