Upcoming Event: Women's Basketball at North Dakota on January 21, 2026 at 7 p.m.
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South Dakota State University Athletics
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SDSU ROAD TRIP BEGINS AT NORTH DAKOTA
1/20/2026 4:49:00 PM | Women's Basketball
| South Dakota State at North Dakota | |
| Game 20Â at North Dakota | |
| When | Wednesday, January 21Â at 7 p.m. |
| Where | Grand Forks, N.D. | Betty Engelstad Sioux Center |
| TV | None |
| Stream | Summit League Network |
| Audio | Jackrabbit Sports Network |
| Live Stats | Statbroadcast |
| Game Notes | South Dakota State Game Notes |
| Social Media | X: @GoJacks WBB | Instagram: @GoJacksWBBÂ | Facebook: @GoJacksWBB |
South Dakota State has two games on the road this week, traveling to North Dakota to take on the Fighting Hawks on Wednesday, then to Missouri to face Kansas City on Saturday afternoon.
The Jackrabbits enter the week with a 4-1 conference record and are coming off a 76-68 loss to North Dakota State Saturday. Overall, South Dakota State is 14-5.
North Dakota is 4-14 overall and 1-4 in Summit League action. Walker Demers is the leading scorer for the Fighting Hawks, averaging 10.4 points per game on 51.5% shooting. North Dakota is ranked seventh nationally for defensive rebounds per contest (30.9), with Ava Miller leading the team in defensive rebounds per game (7.3).
Kansas City enters the week with a 6-13 overall record and 3-3 Summit League mark. The Roos most recently beat St. Thomas over the weekend, 75-60, at the Swinney Center. Elauni Bennett is the Roos' leader in scoring (15.5 PPG), rebounding (7.8 RPG) and steals (1.4 SPG). The Roos are ranked 42nd in the nation in three point percentage (35.2), which puts them at the top of the conference.
KEY STORYLINES
- South Dakota State (14-5, 4-1 Summit) goes on the road to take on North Dakota (4-14, 1-4 Summit) Wednesday night in Grand Forks.
- Led by Brooklyn Meyer's 20.8 points per game, SDSU has six players averaging at least 7.0 points per contest. Paced by Emilee Fox (2.8 APG) and Meyer (2.7 APG), five players dish at least 2.0 assists per game.
- Meyer ranks 13th in the nation in scoring (20.8 PPG) and sixth in field goal percentage (.627). She is one of four players in the country averaging at least 20 points and shooting better than 60% this year. Of those four players, Meyer is the leader in assists and blocks.
- Emilee Fox recently returned to the lineup after missing seven games with an injury. The sophomore averages 8.6 points per game and is lethal from the 3-point line, shooting 56% from deep with more than 2.0 makes per game.
- Maddie Mathiowetz is SDSU's second leading scorer with 11.6 points per game and has scored at least 10 in 13 games this year. She scored 15 points in both games last week.
- A win for SDSU would even the all-time series at 41 wins apiece. North Dakota's last win against the Jackrabbits was pre-Division I, in the 2003-04 season.
- SDSU scores 78.6 points per conference game and allows just 56.2 points. Both marks are top-three in the Summit League. North Dakota scores 58.8 points, on average, and allows 70.4 points per game. Both are bottom half of the conference.
- SDSU is 85-2 in the Summit League regular season since the start of the 2020-21 slate. The Jackrabbits' streak of consecutive regular season conference wins ended at 67 last weekend and will go into the NCAA record book as the fifth longest such streak in history.
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