Jacks host Bison in conference opener

Wednesday, December 28

Brookings, S.D.

7 p.m.

South Dakota State University

North Dakota State

Photo by: Dale Stelz/Wichita State Athletics

12/27/2016 10:17:00 AM | Men's Basketball

SDSU Game Notes

Broadcast Information

Radio	Jackrabbit Sports Network \| WNAX 570 AM / 99.9 FM
Additional Radio**	Brookings (KJJQ 910 AM), Deadwood (KSDJ 980 AM), Pipestone (KJOE 106.1 FM), Watertown (KSDR 1480 AM)
Audio Talent	Tyler Merriam
Free Live Audio	Jackrabbit All-Access
Live Video Stream	Jackrabbit All-Access
Live Stats	GoJacksLive.com
Television	Midco Sports Network
TV Talent	Tom Nieman (Play-by-Play), Brad Newitt (Analyst) and Carla Metts (Sideline)
Channels (Local)	Midco (622 HD, 26 SD); Mediacom (55-2 SD / 86 / 833 HD); Swiftel (79 SD / 714 HD)
** Due to schedule conflicts with women's basketball game at NDSU, not all JSN stations will carry men's game.

The Setup

South Dakota State welcomes North Dakota State to Frost Arena for its conference opener on Wednesday night. The Jackrabbits and Bison have squared off 216 times prior to tonight, with NDSU holding a 115-101 advantage all-time.
South Dakota State has won the last two matchups, claiming a home victory last season alongside a win in the Summit League Tournament's championship game to clinch an NCAA Tournament berth.
Both teams took a small break from action over the holidays after wrapping up non-conference play. SDSU last played Dec. 22 at Wichita State and NDSU has been idle since Dec. 20 when it played at Arkansas.
Over the past five seasons, The Summit League has been represented in the NCAA Tournament by either SDSU (2012, 2013, 2016) or NDSU (2014, 2015)

Scouting the Bison

North Dakota State comes to Frost Arena with an overall winning record after conference play and has picked up road wins at High Point, North Carolina A&T and North Dakota. Road losses have come to Missouri State, Xavier and Arkansas.
The Bison average 69.5 points per contest while allowing 65.3 per game by opponents. From the field, NDSU is firing at 46.6 percent with a 31.3 percent mark beyond the arc.
Opponents are shooting 41.0 percent on field goals for the year and have hit 36.4 percent of their 3-point field goals.
At the charity stripe, NDSU is shooting 64.1 percent and opponents have hit 159 of 233 (68.2 percent).
On the boards, NDSU holds a plus-1.5 advantage in rebounding average (35.2 to 33.7).
Individually, the Bison are led by Paul Miller's 12.9 points per game. Miller, who is also averaging 4.7 rebounds per game, has started all 13 games alongside Khy Kabellis (9.4 ppg) and Carlin Dupree (9.2) in the guard spots.
In the post, Dexter Werner has started 10 games and is averaging a team-high 6.8 rebounds per game to go with 10.2 points per game, good for second on the team.
A.J. Jacobson sits just below the double figure mark for points per game with 9.5 on average over 12 starts as Jacobson is pulling down 4.8 rebounds per game as well.

Charity Stripe Success

South Dakota State has gotten to the free throw line more than its opponents in 13 of 15 games this season and have trailed in free throw attempts just once this season. The Jackrabbits are shooting just under 80 percent (79.8) on free throws this season and have four players above the 80 percent mark individually.
From Dec. 7 to Dec. 22, Mike Daum 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).
SDSU fired at a rate of 89.8 percent (89 of 99) on free throws from Dec. 7 to Dec. 19 before shooting just 53.8 percent (7 of 13) in a loss at Wichita State.
The Jackrabbits started 21 of 21 on free throws against Idaho and finished 25 of 26 (96.1 percent) for the night Dec. 10, and followed that with a 28 of 31 performance (90.6 percent) against Murray State its next time out on Dec. 17.
Mike Daum set a school record with 16 made free throws (out of 16 attempts) against Murray State after tying the previous school record with 13 made free throws (out of 13 attempts) against Idaho (Dec. 10).
As of Dec. 26, South Dakota State ranks 19th in free throw attempts (342), second nationally in free throws made (273) and fifth in NCAA Division I in free throw percentage (.792).
As of Dec. 26, Mike Daum is the national leader in free throw attempts (126) and makes (115) while sitting 28th in percentage (90.5).

Daum-inating
Mike Daum has stepped into a new role as the go-to scorer for the Jackrabbits in 2016-17, but has picked up where he left off after his redshirt freshman season ended with All-Summit League First Team, All-Newcomer and Newcomer of the Year honors. Daum was picked as the 2016-17 Summit League Preseason Player of the Year, and is living up to the hype with 21.9 points and 8.1 rebounds per contest so far this year.

Named The Summit League's Athlete of the Week on Dec. 19 after a monster performance against Murray State that earned him a spot on ESPN's SportsCenter.
Daum has hit double figures in 14 of 15 games this season and has scored at least 20 in 10 contests.
Has scored over 30 points in three contests.
Hit a school record 43 consecutive free throws from Dec. 7 to 22, 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).
Has recorded four double-doubles this season and six in his career.
Set new or matched career-highs for points (32), field goals (10), free throws made-attempted (11 of 13), assists (six) and minutes (36) on Nov. 27 against Milwaukee.
Reset new career highs in points (33) and free throws made (13 of 13) against Idaho on Dec. 10.
Moved into a seven-way tie for fourth in single game field goals made (11) and five-way tie for seventh in field goal attempts (22) in a single game against Murray State.
Put together the program's seventh highest scoring game against Murray State when he finished with 39 to go alongside a 16 of 16 effort from the charity stripe that set a new school record for free throws made.
Daum recorded back-to-back double-doubles against UC Irvine and East Tennessee State at the Sanford Pentagon Showcase, March 25-26. The last time a Jackrabbit had recorded back-to-back double-doubles in a game was Nov. 14 and 17, 2014 when Cody Larson achieved the feat in the opening two games of the 2014-15 season.
Daum was named to the Sanford Pentagon Showcase All-Tournament Team after posting averages of 24.0 points, 11.0 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game in three contests over the weekend event in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Daum saw his streak of 22 consecutive games in double figures come to an end Nov. 14 at UC Irvine when he finished with nine points and eight rebounds, but has only missed scoring 10 or more once this season and five times in 47 career games.
Daum now has six career double-doubles and 17 career games with 20-plus points.
Daum set the school's freshman scoring record with 518 last season. The previous record was Matt Caldwell's 453 points from 2006. He was also the first-ever SDSU freshman (at both DI and DII levels) to earn all-league/all-conference honors.
Daum's 33-point effort against Idaho on Dec. 10 moved him into first on the active career scoring list.
Daum went over the 800-point mark in his career with 39 points against Murray State on Dec. 10. He is the program's active leading scorer and if he continues his pace of more than 20 points per game, Daum is projected to join the 1,000 points club by the end of January 2017.
Daum ranks third nationally in total scoring with 329 points through 15 games. He is 17th nationally with 21.9 points per game currently.

#FearFrost

The Jacks own a 67-3 record at Frost Arena over the last five seasons, which includes perfect home records in four of the last five years and the last two with a 5-0 record thus far in 2016-17. That span includes two home winning streaks of 30 or more games.
SDSU is currently on a 34-game home winning streak, which is the second longest active streak at the Division I level as of Dec. 3, after Kentucky saw its 42-game home winning streak end against UCLA.The nation's longest active home winning streaks can be found on page four of the game notes.
SDSU won 30 consecutive home games from Jan. 29, 2011 to Nov. 14, 2013.
SDSU completed its sixth perfect season inside Frost Arena last year with a win over Oral Roberts on Feb. 27.
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), 2015-16 (12-0) and so far in 2016-17 (5-0).

From Long Range

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 tied the previously set record for 3-point attempts against Idaho, Nov. 21, and set a new record for made 3-pointers in that game, knocking down 16. The previous mark was 15, set at Oakland on Dec. 31, 2008.
SDSU has fired 393 3-pointers this season, up from 291 3-point attempts through 15 games last season.
Those 393 3-point attempts represent 50.1 percent of SDSU's 784 total field goal attempts.
SDSU shot a season-high 57.1 percent (12-of-21) from long range against Minnesota Crookston after hitting 11-of-20 (55.0 percent) of its 3-pointers against Milwaukee in the game prior to that on Nov. 27.
As of Dec. 26, the Jacks rank seventh in NCAA Division I in 3-point attempts and are 11th nationally in 3-pointers made.

Player Quick Hits

Three times this season the Jacks have seen four players reach double figures. The Jacks last did it Dec. 19 at Drake when Mike Daum (20), Andre Wallace (19), Reed Tellinghuisen (18) and A.J. Hess (10) all scored about the 10-point mark.
Twice this season South Dakota State has had two players score over 20 points in the same game. A.J. Hess (31) and Mike Daum (23) score 20-plus in a loss for the first time since Feb. 10, 2016 at Omaha when Daum and Reed Tellinghuisen reached that mark. On Dec. 3 against Kansas City, Andre Wallace (21) and Daum (22) broke the 20-point mark in a win for the first time since Daum and George Marshall did it on Feb. 13, 2016 against South Dakota.
Five different players hit double figures for SDSU in the win over Minnesota Crookston on Nov. 30, 2016. The last time that happened was Jan. 1, 2016 against Denver.
Entering the Nov. 30 game with Minnesota Crookston, the most assists an SDSU player had in a game was six this season. Sergio El Darwich matched that in the opening half against UMC and finished ith eight for the night.
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.
A.J. Hess' 16 first half points against Idaho was tied for the most from a Jackrabbit in a period this season, matching Mike Daum's 16 first half points at Wyoming.
A.J. Hess put together SDSU's first 30-point game at Idaho (scoring 31) since Nov. 26, 2013 when Jordan Dykstra had 32 against Lehigh. Mike Daum recorded SDSU's second 30-point game of the season on Nov. 27, finishing with 32 against Milwaukee.
Reed Tellinghuisen has hit double figures in 11 of 15 games this season, pushing his career mark in that category to 42 games with double figures. Tellinghuisen is second on the active career scoring list.
After a slow start to the season where A.J. Hess scored just 11 points total in the first four games, the graduate transfer has raised his average to 10.5 points per game with eight double figure scoring games. Hess has reached the 10-point mark in the last four games and is averaging 2.46 3-point field goals per contest with a 90.9 percent mark on free throws (averaged 2.0 per game).

Team Quick Hits

South Dakota State has rolled out four different starting lineups in the first seven games but has settled in with the same starters over the last eight.
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 10 times this season. The Jacks are fifth nationally with just 14.7 personal fouls per game.
At least one Jackrabbit has scored in double figures over the last 291 games dating back to Jan. 12, 2008 at IUPUI when Anthony Cordova has nine points to lead the Jacks.
SDSU has made at least one 3-pointer in 319 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 has now gone 84 games without a 1,000 point scorer.
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 -- Dec. 22, 2016
WICHITA, Kansas -- South Dakota State saw three Jackrabbits reach double figures but fell, 89-77, at Wichita State Thursday evening in the final non-conference game of the year.
SDSU (7-8) shot 48.1 percent for the night and hit 10 3-pointers, but shot a season-low 53.8 percent from the free throw line. Wichita State (10-3) hit 54 percent from the field and was 15 of 34 beyond the arc.
Mike Daum paced the team with 20 points, reaching that mark for the fourth consecutive game as he shot 8 of 15 from the field. Michael Orris and A.J. Hess both added 15 points as Hess shot 5 of 9 on 3-pointers and Orris went 6 of 8 from the field.
Tellinghuisen added six points to go alongside a team-high seven rebounds while Ian Theisen had six points as well.
Slow going for both teams early on, SDSU carried an 8-7 lead just past the 15-minute mark of the opening half before the Shockers went on a 9-0 run over a two-minute span before Orris hit his first 3-pointer of the year at 11:40 to end the run and pull the Jacks back within five, 16-11.
Soon after, a Daum 3-pointer moved SDSU back within four, 18-14, but the Shockers stretched their advantage to 10 (24-14) after a pair of treys on the other end. SDSU closed the gap back to six once more, 26-20, with two straight layups from Orris, but another seven unanswered as part of an 11-3 WSU run pushed it to 37-23 inside four minutes to play in the half.
An A.J. Hess 3-pointer at 1:31 ended a stretch of over four minutes without an SDSU field goal, and though the Jacks outscored the Shockers, 8-5, over the final 91 seconds and nearly had a 70-footer buzzer beater from Orris, the Jacks went into the locker room down 12, 44-32.
Second chance points and a 7-3 advantage in offensive boards helped Wichita State control the score at half. SDSU fired at 52 percent from the field in the opening 20 minutes against a Shocker team that ranked ninth nationally in field goal percentage defense entering the night.
SDSU opened the second with a 5-0 run to cut the deficit to seven, 44-37, but saw Wichita State answer with eight straight of its own to end the Jackrabbits' initial comeback threat, all in the first three minutes of final period action.
Down 66-44 just outside 10 minutes to play, SDSU showed life with a 9-0 spurt as SDSU climbed back to within 13 (66-53). WSU ended the run with a 3-pointer at 7:31 but the Jacks continued to push and found themselves down 12 (71-59) with 6:39 to play after a 3-point play from Reed Tellinghuisen. That was it for the Jacks, however, as the Shockers recovered and used its double figure cushion to hold on for the win.

Bison's Last Time Out -- Dec. 20, 2016
(GoBison.com)
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The North Dakota State men's basketball team was in a second-half tie with the Arkansas Razorbacks on Tuesday evening, but Arkansas went on a 16-0 run to take control of the game and hand the Bison a 71-55 defeat at Bud Walton Arena.
NDSU completed the non-conference portion of its schedule with a record of 8-5.
Arkansas improved to 10-1 on the season. Despite being limited to a season-low scoring output by NDSU, the Razorbacks are now 55-1 against unranked non-conference opponents at Bud Walton Arena under head coach Mike Anderson.
The game was tied at 29-29 with 17:45 remaining after a fast-break bucket by Carlin Dupree. The Razorbacks went on a 16-0 run over the next five minutes, keyed by three consecutive three-pointers from Dusty Hannahs and Daryl Macon.
NDSU held Arkansas well under its season scoring average of 84 points per game, as well as limiting the Razorbacks to a season-low five fast-break points. The Bison also won the turnover battle (16-15) and the points-off-turnovers category (19-15).
Junior guard Paul Miller scored 17 points to lead all players. Bison senior Dexter Werner pulled down a game-high 12 rebounds.

New Faces, Great Places
South Dakota State's hiring of first-year head coach T.J. Otzelberger was a nod to the state's motto, "Great Faces, Great Places." The new face of the program, announced April 14, 2016, is in his first-ever heading coaching role, but has been groomed for the position over several assistant stops, working with Lorenzo Romar (Washington), Fred Hoiberg (Iowa State), Greg McDermott (Iowa State) and Steve Prohm (Iowa State). Alongside Otzelberger, new members of the coaching staff include Ben Walker, a Creighton hall of fame member who last coached at Jackson State, Eric Henderson, a former Wayne State (Neb.) standout who spent last season with SDSU's rival, North Dakota State, and Tyler Glidden, the director of operations who has worked at Creighton and Iowa State. Rob Klinkefus was the lone holdover from former head coach Scott Nagy's staff, and enters his 11th season at SDSU.

20-Win Seasons
Reaching the 20-win mark has become a standard at South Dakota State University over the previous five seasons, as the Jackrabbits have done in four times in that span and 23 times in the program's history.

2015-16 Season Review
The 2015-16 Jackrabbit Men's Basketball season featured several highlights throughout the campaign, including a trip to the NCAA Tournament, a conference tournament title and earning a share of The Summit League's regular season championship. The Jackrabbits earned the No. 12 seed in last year's West Region, narrowly missing an upset over fifth-seeded Maryland in the first round, falling 79-74. Prior to that, SDSU earned the nickname "Cardiac Jacks" with a run through the conference tournament, pulling off three-point quarterfinal and one-point semifinal wins before earning the automatic bid with a 67-59 win over NDSU in the final. Mike Daum was named the tournament MVP and Deondre Parks was a member of the All-Tournament team. For the regular season, SDSU posted its second consecutive undefeated home record while three players garnered All-Conference honors in addition to other national awards. Mike Daum was named the Summit League Freshman and Sixth Man of the Year in addition to earning spots on the All-Conference First Team and the All-Newcomer Team. George Marshall was an All-Conference First Team selection and Deondre Parks claimed an honorable mention nod. On the national level, Marshall and Parks earned NABC Division I All-District 12 honors with First and Second Team nods, respectively, and Daum was named a Kyle Macy All-American. After the season, longtime head coach Scott Nagy resigned after completing his 21st season at the helm.

-GoJacks.com-