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
Jacks open league tournament with Oral Roberts
3/5/2009 1:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
In it's first year of eligibility, South Dakota State secured a No. 7 seed in the eight team field at The Summit League Championships this weekend in Sioux Falls, and just over a week after dropping a five-point game at Oral Roberts, the Jackrabbits drew the those same Golden Eagles, who drew a No. 2 seed in the tournament after falling to North Dakota State in the regular season finale.
SDSU and ORU square off on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in the Sioux Falls Arena, with the winner advancing to play the winner of the No. 3 seed Oakland vs. No. 6 seed IPFW game scheduled for Sunday at 8:30 p.m.
The Jacks trailed the Golden Eagles for the entire first half last week in Tulsa, Okla., but came back to take a five-point lead on two occasions in the second half before ORU closed out the game with a decisive 10-0 run.
Still in search of its first-ever Summit League road win, SDSU went to Shreveport, La., on Saturday to close out the regular season against Centenary, but the Gents put those hopes to rest in the second half with a 19-0 run. The Jacks responded with an 8-0 run, but could not get any closer than four points the rest of the way.
SDSU NOTES ? Garrett Callahan leads the Jackrabbit offense with 15.6 points per game after becoming the 40th member of the SDSU 1,000 Point Club in the win over Southern Utah. He also leads the team with 62 assists and with 26 steals. Clint Sargent returned to the line-up in the season finale at Centenary after a five game absence to score 20 points off the bench, and enters the tournament averaging 14.4 points per game.
Anthony Cordova recorded his sixth career double-double in the loss at ORU last week with 20 points and 11 rebounds and enters the tournament averaging 11.8 points and 6.9 rebounds per game, while Kai Williams averages 9.9 points and a team-high 7.2 rebounds per game.
As a team, the Jacks shoot .442 from the floor overall and .347 from three-point range for an average of 69.4 points per game. Jackrabbit opponents shoot .472 from the field, .339 from long distance in scoring 71.1 points per game.
SDSU averages one more rebound per game than its opponents, but enters the week with 48 fewer blocks, 62 fewer steals and with 35 more turnovers.
RABBITS ON THE RADIO ? All Jackrabbit men's basketball games, home and on the road, can be heard live on AM 570 WNAX, with Steve Imming doing the play-by-play. The pre-game show begins 15 minutes before tipoff.
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 ? Should the Jackrabbits advance to the semifinals of The Summit League Championships this weekend, the game can be seen live on Metro Sports in the Kansas City area. The championship game of the league tournament can be seen live on ESPN2 on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
Replays of Jackrabbit men's and women's home games, along with coaches' shows can be seen several times a week on the Mediacom Connections Channel in South Dakota and Minnesota. Check your local listings for show times.
WILLIAMS JOINS 1,000 POINT CLUB ? Junior Kai Williams completed an old fashioned three-point play in overtime against Oakland on Jan. 31, to become the 39th member of the SDSU 1,000 Point Club and the first to score all of his points at the Division I level. He enters the week ranked 28th on the all-time scoring list with 1,076 points.
CALLAHAN JOINS 1,000 POINT CLUB ? Junior Garrett Callahan needed 20 points and got 24 in the Jacks win over Southern Utah on Feb. 12, to become the 40th member of the SDSU 1,000 Point Club, the second to score all of them at the D-I level and the second to achieve the milestone this season. He enters the week ranked 31st on the list with 1,056 career points.
CALLAHAN TIES 52-YEAR-OLD RECORD ? Junior Garrett Callahan tied a 52-year-old SDSU single game free-throw percentage record when he went 12-for-12 from the free throw line in the Jacks win over Southern Utah.
Callahan ties the record set by Jim Sutton, who went 12-for-12 in a win over St. Thomas (Minn.) in Dec. 1956.
Callahan has made 31 straight free throws in parts of the last nine games and is 39-for-40 from the line over that span, with his only miss coming in a 10-for-11 effort vs. IPFW on Jan. 29.
CALLAHAN EARNS SUMMIT LEAGUE HONORS ? The Summit League announced Thursday that South Dakota State junior guard Garrett Callahan earned a place on The All-Summit League Second-Team for his play during the 2008-09 season.
A Seneca, Ill., native, Callahan led the Jackrabbits through the regular season with 15.6 points per game and with 26 steals and 62 assists.
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 D-I, starting at the beginning of the 2008-09 academic year.
Robert Jarvis leads ORU with 17.4 points per game and became the 27th player in school history to eclipse the 1,000-point mark over the weekend.
Marcus Lewis adds 13.2 points per game, while and Kevin Ford adds 9.8 points to go along with his team-high 7.5 rebounds per game.
The Golden Eagles shoot .443 from the floor overall, .319 from three-point range in scoring 70.8 points per game. Despite being just two games over .500, ORU holds opponents to .427 shooting overall, .349 from long distance, and to 66.2 points per game. The Golden Eagles also fare better than their opponents in assists, turnovers and steals, but enter the week with eight fewer blocks than the competition.
The Series vs. Oral Roberts ? The Golden Eagles lead the all-time series 4-1 after completing their second season sweep last week with a 63-58 win on Thursday in Tulsa.
The lone SDSU win in the series came on Jan. 24, 1968, when the Jacks won 92-83 in Brookings.
Kangas leads OU with 18.9 points per game, thanks in large part to his single-season league record 119 three-pointers. For the season, Kangas made 70 more shots from outside of the arc than from inside of it.
Keith Benson adds 14.4 points per game and leads the team with a single-season school record 75 blocks, while Johnathon Jones adds 13.5 points and leads the nation with 241 assists.
Oakland shoots .475 from the field overall and .375 from three point range in averaging 75.2 points per game, nearly four more points than their opponents.
The Grizzlies hold a slight rebounding edge and a significant edge in blocks over the competition, but enter the tournament with fewer assists and steals and with more turnovers.
IPFW Mastodons (13-16, 8-10 Summit) ? The Mastodons enter the tournament as the No. 6 seed after beating UMKC and Southern Utah at home to end the season, which gives them three straight wins to end the season.
David Carson combined for 33 points in the two wins, and leads the Mastodons with 14.9 points per game. Ben Botts averages 11.3 points per game, while Deilvez Yearby averages 8.9 points to go along with his team-high 6.3 rebounds and IPFW single-season record 54 blocks.
IPFW shoots .437 from the floor overall and .411 from three point range in averaging 65.8 points per game, 3.5 fewer points per game than the competition. Mastodon opponents hold an edge in rebounds, assists, turnovers and steals, but IPFW enters the tournament with ten more blocks than the competition.
Oakland and IPFW meet on Sunday at 8:30 p.m.
SDSU and ORU square off on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in the Sioux Falls Arena, with the winner advancing to play the winner of the No. 3 seed Oakland vs. No. 6 seed IPFW game scheduled for Sunday at 8:30 p.m.
The Jacks trailed the Golden Eagles for the entire first half last week in Tulsa, Okla., but came back to take a five-point lead on two occasions in the second half before ORU closed out the game with a decisive 10-0 run.
Still in search of its first-ever Summit League road win, SDSU went to Shreveport, La., on Saturday to close out the regular season against Centenary, but the Gents put those hopes to rest in the second half with a 19-0 run. The Jacks responded with an 8-0 run, but could not get any closer than four points the rest of the way.
SDSU NOTES ? Garrett Callahan leads the Jackrabbit offense with 15.6 points per game after becoming the 40th member of the SDSU 1,000 Point Club in the win over Southern Utah. He also leads the team with 62 assists and with 26 steals. Clint Sargent returned to the line-up in the season finale at Centenary after a five game absence to score 20 points off the bench, and enters the tournament averaging 14.4 points per game.
Anthony Cordova recorded his sixth career double-double in the loss at ORU last week with 20 points and 11 rebounds and enters the tournament averaging 11.8 points and 6.9 rebounds per game, while Kai Williams averages 9.9 points and a team-high 7.2 rebounds per game.
As a team, the Jacks shoot .442 from the floor overall and .347 from three-point range for an average of 69.4 points per game. Jackrabbit opponents shoot .472 from the field, .339 from long distance in scoring 71.1 points per game.
SDSU averages one more rebound per game than its opponents, but enters the week with 48 fewer blocks, 62 fewer steals and with 35 more turnovers.
RABBITS ON THE RADIO ? All Jackrabbit men's basketball games, home and on the road, can be heard live on AM 570 WNAX, with Steve Imming doing the play-by-play. The pre-game show begins 15 minutes before tipoff.
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 ? Should the Jackrabbits advance to the semifinals of The Summit League Championships this weekend, the game can be seen live on Metro Sports in the Kansas City area. The championship game of the league tournament can be seen live on ESPN2 on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
Replays of Jackrabbit men's and women's home games, along with coaches' shows can be seen several times a week on the Mediacom Connections Channel in South Dakota and Minnesota. Check your local listings for show times.
WILLIAMS JOINS 1,000 POINT CLUB ? Junior Kai Williams completed an old fashioned three-point play in overtime against Oakland on Jan. 31, to become the 39th member of the SDSU 1,000 Point Club and the first to score all of his points at the Division I level. He enters the week ranked 28th on the all-time scoring list with 1,076 points.
CALLAHAN JOINS 1,000 POINT CLUB ? Junior Garrett Callahan needed 20 points and got 24 in the Jacks win over Southern Utah on Feb. 12, to become the 40th member of the SDSU 1,000 Point Club, the second to score all of them at the D-I level and the second to achieve the milestone this season. He enters the week ranked 31st on the list with 1,056 career points.
CALLAHAN TIES 52-YEAR-OLD RECORD ? Junior Garrett Callahan tied a 52-year-old SDSU single game free-throw percentage record when he went 12-for-12 from the free throw line in the Jacks win over Southern Utah.
Callahan ties the record set by Jim Sutton, who went 12-for-12 in a win over St. Thomas (Minn.) in Dec. 1956.
Callahan has made 31 straight free throws in parts of the last nine games and is 39-for-40 from the line over that span, with his only miss coming in a 10-for-11 effort vs. IPFW on Jan. 29.
CALLAHAN EARNS SUMMIT LEAGUE HONORS ? The Summit League announced Thursday that South Dakota State junior guard Garrett Callahan earned a place on The All-Summit League Second-Team for his play during the 2008-09 season.
A Seneca, Ill., native, Callahan led the Jackrabbits through the regular season with 15.6 points per game and with 26 steals and 62 assists.
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 D-I, starting at the beginning of the 2008-09 academic year.
QUARTERFINALS OPPONENT
Oral Roberts Golden Eagles (16-14, 14-4 Summit) ? The four time Summit League Champion Golden Eagles enter The Summit League Championships as the No. 2 seed after losing their bid for a fifth straight title after falling at home to North Dakota State 75-72 on Saturday. The loss to the Bison also snapped ORU's 35 game conference home winning streak. Robert Jarvis leads ORU with 17.4 points per game and became the 27th player in school history to eclipse the 1,000-point mark over the weekend.
Marcus Lewis adds 13.2 points per game, while and Kevin Ford adds 9.8 points to go along with his team-high 7.5 rebounds per game.
The Golden Eagles shoot .443 from the floor overall, .319 from three-point range in scoring 70.8 points per game. Despite being just two games over .500, ORU holds opponents to .427 shooting overall, .349 from long distance, and to 66.2 points per game. The Golden Eagles also fare better than their opponents in assists, turnovers and steals, but enter the week with eight fewer blocks than the competition.
The Series vs. Oral Roberts ? The Golden Eagles lead the all-time series 4-1 after completing their second season sweep last week with a 63-58 win on Thursday in Tulsa.
The lone SDSU win in the series came on Jan. 24, 1968, when the Jacks won 92-83 in Brookings.
POTENTIAL SEMIFINAL OPPONENTS
Oakland Golden Grizzlies (20-11, 13-5 Summit) ? The Golden Grizzlies enter the tournament with the No. 3 seed and riding a season-high seven-game win streak, as the Grizzlies picked-up home wins over Southern Utah and UMKC last week. Kangas leads OU with 18.9 points per game, thanks in large part to his single-season league record 119 three-pointers. For the season, Kangas made 70 more shots from outside of the arc than from inside of it.
Keith Benson adds 14.4 points per game and leads the team with a single-season school record 75 blocks, while Johnathon Jones adds 13.5 points and leads the nation with 241 assists.
Oakland shoots .475 from the field overall and .375 from three point range in averaging 75.2 points per game, nearly four more points than their opponents.
The Grizzlies hold a slight rebounding edge and a significant edge in blocks over the competition, but enter the tournament with fewer assists and steals and with more turnovers.
IPFW Mastodons (13-16, 8-10 Summit) ? The Mastodons enter the tournament as the No. 6 seed after beating UMKC and Southern Utah at home to end the season, which gives them three straight wins to end the season.
David Carson combined for 33 points in the two wins, and leads the Mastodons with 14.9 points per game. Ben Botts averages 11.3 points per game, while Deilvez Yearby averages 8.9 points to go along with his team-high 6.3 rebounds and IPFW single-season record 54 blocks.
IPFW shoots .437 from the floor overall and .411 from three point range in averaging 65.8 points per game, 3.5 fewer points per game than the competition. Mastodon opponents hold an edge in rebounds, assists, turnovers and steals, but IPFW enters the tournament with ten more blocks than the competition.
NEXT UP FOR THE JACKRABBITS
If the Jakrabbits beat Oral Roberts in the quarterfinal round of The Summit League Championships, they would play the winner of the Oakland/IPFW game on Monday at 8:30 p.m., in the semifinals. Oakland and IPFW meet on Sunday at 8:30 p.m.
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