Completed Event: Men's Basketball versus #2 St. Thomas on March 5, 2026 , Loss , 67, to, 80
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South Dakota State University Athletics
Jackrrabbits host CSU-Bakersfield in non-conference action
12/16/2008 1:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
A short two-game road trip ended with two Jackrabbit losses, giving South Dakota State its longest losing streak of the season at three games.
Minnesota jumped all over the Jacks early last Wednesday, leading by as many as 19 points, but SDSU battled back to within five points before the Gophers finally pulled away in the second half for the 74-60 win.
Things looked similar in Denver on Sunday, with the Pioneers taking the early lead and never trailing in a 62-58 win. The Jacks stayed close throughout, but could never get closer than two points.
The Jackrabbits, who enter the week with a 4-7 overall record, look to end that skid on Tuesday, when they host Cal State-Bakersfield in their final non-conference home game of the season. The Roadrunners, who enter the game with a 3-7 record, beat the Jacks 73-71 in overtime last season.
SDSU NOTES ? Junior Garrett Callahan leads the Jackrabbit offensive attack with 17.5 points per game and with 26 assists. Sophomore Clint Sargent averages 15.2 points and 4.1 rebounds per game. Junior Kai Williams averages 9.5 points and 5.7 rebounds per game and leads the Jacks with three blocks and five steals. Sophomore Anthony Cordova leads the Jacks with 7.9 rebounds per game and adds 8.5 points per game.
As a team, the Jacks shoot .419 from the floor overall, but shoot .338 from three-point range. Jackrabbit opponents shoot .464 from the field, but shoot just .306 from long distance. The Jacks hold a slight rebounding edge over their opponents, but enter the game with 20 fewer blocks, 16 fewer steals and with eight more turnovers.
RABBITS ON THE RADIO ? All Jackrabbit men's basketball games, home and on the road, can be heard on AM 570 WNAX, with Steve Imming doing the play-by-play. The pre-game show begins 15 minutes before tip-off.
THE JACKRABBIT EXTRA ON GoJacks.com ? Subscribers to the Jackrabbit Extra on GoJacks.com watch every Jackrabbit home game and select road games streaming live on the internet. In addition, subscribers can listen to every game, home and on the road, streaming live on the internet.
To learn more about the Jackrabbit Extra, or to subscribe, log onto GoJacks.com and click on “sign up” or just click on the link at the top of the page.
SUMMIT TV ON TheSummitLeague.org ? Subscribers to Summit TV on TheSummitLeague.org can watch every Summit League men's and women's basketball game streaming live on the internet.
To learn more about Summit TV, log onto TheSummitLeague.org
RABBITS ON TELEVISION ? SDSU basketball will have an increased presence on Mediacom throughout the 2008 season. Replays of Jackrabbit men's and women's home games can be seen several times a week on the Mediacom Connections Channel in South Dakota and Minnesota, as will coaches' shows, starting when conference play begins in December.
COUNTDOWN TO 1,000 POINTS ? Junior Kai Williams enters the week with 873 career points, 129 shy of becoming the 39th member of the SDSU 1,000-Point Club and the first to score all of them at the Division I level.
Fellow junior Garrett Callahan, who leads the Jacks with 17.4 points per game, enters the week with 763 points, 237 shy of joining the club. He needs to average just under 14 points per game over the 31-game regular season to reach the 1,000 point milestone.
TRANSITION OVER ? The NCAA Division I Management Council Administrative Committee, acting on behalf of the DI Management Council, announced in late June that South Dakota State University met the requirements to become an active member of NCAA Division I, starting at the beginning of the 2008-09 academic year.
Previously a member of Division II, SDSU Successfully completed the five-year process of moving its athletic programs to comply with Division I membership requirements. Those requirements include compliance with Division I rules for the final four years, meeting minimum financial aid and contest scheduling limits, engaging in a rules compliance review and successfully complete the athletics certification process.
SDSU officials submitted an extensive self-study to the NCAA in the spring of 2007 and a peer-review team completed the study during a campus visit in October 2007.
Trent Blakley leads the ?Runners offense with 14.1 points per game, which includes a .438 field goal percentage and a .439 three-point field goal percentage. He also ranks second on the team with 4.6 rebounds per game. Santwon Latunde rounds out the double-digit scorers with an 11.4 points per game average and leads the team with 7.6 rebounds per game, all off the bench.
The Roadrunners shoot .377 from the floor overall, .318 from three-point range, both considerably lower than their opponents. CSUB also averages fewer points and fewer blocks than its opponents, but does commit fewer turnovers and more steals.
The Series vs. CSU-Bakersfield ? Tuesday's game marks the second meeting between SDSU and CSU-Bakersfield.
The Roadrunners needed overtime to do it, but they won the first and only meeting with the Jacks 73-71 last season on Dec. 28, 2007 in Bakersfield, Calif.
The road trip starts in Cedar Falls, Iowa on Dec. 21, with a game at Northern Iowa, a team the Jackrabbits beat last season in Frost Arena. Staying Iowa, the Jacks then travel to Ames for a match-up with the Iowa State Cyclones on Dec. 23. The Jacks and Cyclones last met on the hardwood on Nov. 23, 1985.
The SDSU at Iowa State game can be seen live on Mediacom Connections, Channel 10 in Brookings.
Minnesota jumped all over the Jacks early last Wednesday, leading by as many as 19 points, but SDSU battled back to within five points before the Gophers finally pulled away in the second half for the 74-60 win.
Things looked similar in Denver on Sunday, with the Pioneers taking the early lead and never trailing in a 62-58 win. The Jacks stayed close throughout, but could never get closer than two points.
The Jackrabbits, who enter the week with a 4-7 overall record, look to end that skid on Tuesday, when they host Cal State-Bakersfield in their final non-conference home game of the season. The Roadrunners, who enter the game with a 3-7 record, beat the Jacks 73-71 in overtime last season.
SDSU NOTES ? Junior Garrett Callahan leads the Jackrabbit offensive attack with 17.5 points per game and with 26 assists. Sophomore Clint Sargent averages 15.2 points and 4.1 rebounds per game. Junior Kai Williams averages 9.5 points and 5.7 rebounds per game and leads the Jacks with three blocks and five steals. Sophomore Anthony Cordova leads the Jacks with 7.9 rebounds per game and adds 8.5 points per game.
As a team, the Jacks shoot .419 from the floor overall, but shoot .338 from three-point range. Jackrabbit opponents shoot .464 from the field, but shoot just .306 from long distance. The Jacks hold a slight rebounding edge over their opponents, but enter the game with 20 fewer blocks, 16 fewer steals and with eight more turnovers.
RABBITS ON THE RADIO ? All Jackrabbit men's basketball games, home and on the road, can be heard on AM 570 WNAX, with Steve Imming doing the play-by-play. The pre-game show begins 15 minutes before tip-off.
THE JACKRABBIT EXTRA ON GoJacks.com ? Subscribers to the Jackrabbit Extra on GoJacks.com watch every Jackrabbit home game and select road games streaming live on the internet. In addition, subscribers can listen to every game, home and on the road, streaming live on the internet.
To learn more about the Jackrabbit Extra, or to subscribe, log onto GoJacks.com and click on “sign up” or just click on the link at the top of the page.
SUMMIT TV ON TheSummitLeague.org ? Subscribers to Summit TV on TheSummitLeague.org can watch every Summit League men's and women's basketball game streaming live on the internet.
To learn more about Summit TV, log onto TheSummitLeague.org
RABBITS ON TELEVISION ? SDSU basketball will have an increased presence on Mediacom throughout the 2008 season. Replays of Jackrabbit men's and women's home games can be seen several times a week on the Mediacom Connections Channel in South Dakota and Minnesota, as will coaches' shows, starting when conference play begins in December.
COUNTDOWN TO 1,000 POINTS ? Junior Kai Williams enters the week with 873 career points, 129 shy of becoming the 39th member of the SDSU 1,000-Point Club and the first to score all of them at the Division I level.
Fellow junior Garrett Callahan, who leads the Jacks with 17.4 points per game, enters the week with 763 points, 237 shy of joining the club. He needs to average just under 14 points per game over the 31-game regular season to reach the 1,000 point milestone.
TRANSITION OVER ? The NCAA Division I Management Council Administrative Committee, acting on behalf of the DI Management Council, announced in late June that South Dakota State University met the requirements to become an active member of NCAA Division I, starting at the beginning of the 2008-09 academic year.
Previously a member of Division II, SDSU Successfully completed the five-year process of moving its athletic programs to comply with Division I membership requirements. Those requirements include compliance with Division I rules for the final four years, meeting minimum financial aid and contest scheduling limits, engaging in a rules compliance review and successfully complete the athletics certification process.
SDSU officials submitted an extensive self-study to the NCAA in the spring of 2007 and a peer-review team completed the study during a campus visit in October 2007.
THIS WEEK'S COMPETITION
CSU-Bakersfield (3-7, 1-6, Away) ? The independent and transitioning Roadrunners enter the week with a 3-7 overall record, 1-6 on the road, which includes a pair of overtime losses. Trent Blakley leads the ?Runners offense with 14.1 points per game, which includes a .438 field goal percentage and a .439 three-point field goal percentage. He also ranks second on the team with 4.6 rebounds per game. Santwon Latunde rounds out the double-digit scorers with an 11.4 points per game average and leads the team with 7.6 rebounds per game, all off the bench.
The Roadrunners shoot .377 from the floor overall, .318 from three-point range, both considerably lower than their opponents. CSUB also averages fewer points and fewer blocks than its opponents, but does commit fewer turnovers and more steals.
The Series vs. CSU-Bakersfield ? Tuesday's game marks the second meeting between SDSU and CSU-Bakersfield.
The Roadrunners needed overtime to do it, but they won the first and only meeting with the Jacks 73-71 last season on Dec. 28, 2007 in Bakersfield, Calif.
NEXT UP FOR THE JACKRABBITS
South Dakota State makes one more non-conference road swing before The Summit League season goes into full swing after the holiday break.The road trip starts in Cedar Falls, Iowa on Dec. 21, with a game at Northern Iowa, a team the Jackrabbits beat last season in Frost Arena. Staying Iowa, the Jacks then travel to Ames for a match-up with the Iowa State Cyclones on Dec. 23. The Jacks and Cyclones last met on the hardwood on Nov. 23, 1985.
The SDSU at Iowa State game can be seen live on Mediacom Connections, Channel 10 in Brookings.
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