Jacks, Fighting Hawks square off Tuesday

Tuesday, December 12

Brookings, S.D.

7 p.m.

South Dakota State University

North Dakota

Tickets

Photo by: Jason Salzman

12/11/2017 11:09:00 AM | Men's Basketball

GAME 13: South Dakota State (8-4) vs North Dakota (4-5)

When	Tuesday, Dec. 12 \| 7 p.m.
Where	Frost Arena \| Brookings, S.D.
Radio	Jackrabbit Sports Network \| WNAX 570 AM \| Tyler Merriam
Television	Midco Sports Network \| ESPN3/WatchESPN \| Tom Nieman, Brad Newitt & Kelly Stewart
Live Video	Jackrabbit All-Access
Live Audio	Jackrabbits All-Access
Live Stats	GoJacksLive.com
Game Notes	South Dakota State \| North Dakota \| Summit League
Social Media	Twitter \| Facebook \| #FindAWay

Previewing the Game
South Dakota State stays home Tuesday to host North Dakota in nonconference action at 7 p.m.

The Jacks are coming off a 103-67 home victory over Concordia (Neb.) last Friday while North Dakota hosted North Dakota State last Saturday, falling 88-79.

The Jackrabbits carry an 8-4 record into the week after snapping a two-game skid against the Bulldogs. SDSU just missed an upset last week at then-No. 6 Wichita State and fell in the December opener at the Sanford Pentagon to Missouri State. Prior to that, SDSU had picked up consecutive wins over Iowa and Buffalo at the Cayman Islands Classic, a home win over Dakota State and a road win against SEC foe Ole Miss.

The North Dakota Fighting Hawks (4-5) come to Frost Arena on a two-game losing streak, falling to North Dakota State and Creighton over the last week of game action. UND is in its last year of Big Sky action and will join The Summit League in 2018-19, reuniting itself with several regional rivals.

The Jackrabbits and Fighting Hawks have a rich history of games between the two, but have not squared off since 2014-15 and only five times as Division I programs. SDSU trails in the overall series, 104-82, but at the Division 1 level the Jacks are 4-1 against the Fighting Hawks, including a 3-0 record at Frost.

About South Dakota State
The Summit League Preseason Player of the Year Mike Daum is the nation's top returning scorer and is off to another strong start, averaging a team-best 19.6 points per game and 7.3 rebounds per contest. He has three double-doubles on the campaign and has reached double figures in 11 of 12 contests, including three of his 15 career 30-point games and six of his 38 career 30-point performances. Daum scored 10 or more points in 23 straight games between Jan. 21 and Dec. 2, 2017.

Freshmen David Jenkins Jr. has established himself as a go-to scorer early in his college career, sitting second on the team with 13.7 points per game and nine double-digit scoring performances. He has led the team in scoring three times (13 against UCI, 23 against Iowa and 19 against Concordia) and is shooting 40.3 percent from the field this season. He has three 20-point games as well, including a 22-point effort against Ole Miss, and is second on the team with 30 made 3-pointers.

Reed Tellinghuisen has raised his average to 11.7 points per game over the last three weeks, hitting double figures in six of the last nine contests, including a 19-point game against Ole Miss where he drilled five 3-pointers. He is on pace to challenge Mike Daum's freshman scoring record of 518, set in 2015-16. Through 12 games that year, Daum had 143 points.

Tevin King is second on the team with 70 total rebounds (5.8 per game) and is averaging 9.3 points per contest. He has already surpassed his 3-point total from last season (seven), going 9-for-22 beyond the arc while shooting 56.2 percent from the field with six double figure scoring performances. King has split time at point guard with Brandon Key (4.3 assists, 6.0 points per game) and is second on the team with 36 total assists. Over the last three games, King has 39 points, 14 rebounds, 10 steals and 16 assists with just three turnovers.

About North Dakota
UND is led by four double figure scorers this season, with Geno Crandall (17.3 points per game) pacing the squad. Crandall is shooting 48.1 percent from the field and has hit a team-high 16 3-pointers whie dishing out 3.2 assists through nine games.

Marlon Stewart is second in scoring (14.2 ppg) with a 46.7 field goal percentage and 3.3 rebounds per game, tallying 29 total assists as well.

Conner Avants (12.4 ppg) and Cortez Seales (11.6 ppg) are in double figures as well, and Avants leads the team with 5.9 rebounds per game and a 56.3 shooting percentage.

Dale Jones, the other primary starter, is putting up 8.6 points and 7.2 rebounds per game to go alongside 12 3-pointers, second-most on the team.

The Fighting Hawks are averaging 77.1 points per game as a team, but are minus-five in rebounding margin on the season. UND is shooting 44.3 percent as a team, but has only hit 52 3-pointers all season compared to SDSU's 135.

Brian Jones is in his 12th season leading the Fighting Hawks, and holds a 170-184 record at the helm.

A South Dakota State Win Would ...
Make SDSU 9-4 on the season ... give State an 83-104 record all-time against UND and move the team to 5-1 against the Fighting Hawks in Division I ... make Otzelberger 27-21 at South Dakota State ... move the Jackrabbits to 1,492-1,028-1 all-time.

A South Dakota State Loss Would ...
Put the Jacks at 8-5 ... move State to 82-105 all-time against UND and put the Division I series at 4-2, in the Jackrabbits' favor ... make Otzelberger 26-22 at South Dakota State ... move SDSU to 1,491-1,029-1 all-time.

Tough Tests
South Dakota State's win over Ole Miss Nov. 28 was the second Power Five win for the Jackrabbits this season and third of four match-ups against teams from the ACC, SEC, Big 10, Big 12 or Pac-12 this season. SDSU faced Kansas Nov. 17, picked up a win over Iowa Nov. 21 and will take on Colorado next Friday.

South Dakota State has seven wins over Power Five programs since joining The Summit League in 2007, picking up wins over Iowa State (2008), Iowa (2010 and 2017), Washington (2011), TCU (2015), Minnesota (2015) and Ole Miss (2017).

SDSU's wins over Iowa and Ole Miss this season came in the shortest time frame of any Summit League team since 1998 (seven days). The Jackrabbits are the fifth league team to post a win over separate Power Five conferences in the same regular season, and the first to do it since 2009.

The Jacks also met No. 6 Wichita State this season and narrowly missed an upset at Charles Koch Arena.

Jacks Sit 19th in Mid-Major Poll
The Jackrabbits slipped to 19th in the latest College Sports Madness Mid-Major Top 25 poll, released Dec. 4 by the organization.

The Jackrabbits have been ranked in all five versions of the poll, including preseason, while sitting as high as 13th in the second edtion. SDSU has been 14th in every other version of the poll.

The latest edition of the poll features 2017-18 opponents Missouri State (No. 15), Buffalo (receiving votes), South Dakota (RV) and UC Irvine (RV).

Daum Named November Athlete of the Month
South Dakota State's Mike Daum was selected as the Summit League's November Male Athlete of the Month, announced Dec. 7 by the conference office.

Daum helped the Jacks to a 7-2 record through the opening part of the season and averaged a near-double-double, posting 20.1 points and 8.2 rebounds per game while hitting 22 3-pointers. The Kimball, Nebraska native scored in double figures for all nine contests, including two 30-point performances and five games with 20 or more.

The forward had three consecutive double-doubles from Nov. 12-17, racking up 22 points and 13 rebounds against Mary and 30 points with 13 rebounds against Alabama State before closing the streak with a 21-point, 11-board performance at then-No. 3 Kansas.

Jacks Fifth at Cayman Islands Classic
South Dakota State took fifth at the inaugural Cayman Islands Classic, closing the tournament with wins over Iowa and Buffalo after falling in its first game to Wyoming.

Reed Tellinghuisen was named to the Cayman Classic All-Tournament Team, averaging 12.7 points and 4.0 rebounds per game. Mike Daum led all Jackrabbits with 54 total points at the tournament, hitting double figures all three games, including a season-best 34 against Buffalo.

David Jenkins Jr. shot 41.2 percent (7 of 17) beyond the arc, adding 14.7 points and 4.7 rebounds per game while Tevin King, playing 26.3 minutes per game, dished out five assists, came up with eight steals, scored 31 points (10.3 ppg) and grabbed 17 rebounds (5.7 per game).

No. 12 Cincinnati won the tournament, beating Wyoming in the finals.

Let It Rain
South Dakota State's 3-point offense ranks among the nation's best for the second-straight season, as the team sits fifth in 3-pointers made and eighth in 3-point attempts in the Dec. 10 stats release. The Jacks are 12th in the NCAA with 11.3 3-pointers per game and their 41.4 long range shooting percentage is 23rd in Division I.

Last season, the Jacks had three players that hit 60 or more 3-pointers last season, including two returners in Mike Daum (79) and Reed Tellinghuisen (74). That duo ranked 13th nationally among active returning duos in combined 3-pointers from a year-ago. State has three already with 25 or more 3-pointers this year: Mike Daum (32), David Jenkins Jr. (30) and Reed Tellinghuisen (27) and all rank amongst the nation's best.

Through 12 games last season, SDSU was 111-for-307 beyond the arc. This year, the Jacks are 135-for-326 from long distance.

Nov. 28 saw the Jackrabbits reset the school's Division I record for 3-pointers made and attempted in a game for the third (makes) and fourth (attempts) time, going 18-for-41 beyond the arc.

Since the arrival of T.J. Otzelberger, the Jacks now hold all of the top five spots in the record book for 3-pointers made in a Division I game, and hold all but one of the spots in the top five of attempts.

#FearFrost

The Jacks own a 78-5 record at Frost Arena over the last six seasons dating back to 2011-12, which includes perfect home records in four of the last five years entering the current season. That span includes two home winning streaks of 30 or more games.
South Dakota State won 34 consecutive games from Jan. 30, 2014 to Dec. 28, 2016. It ended as the nation's second longest active streak.
The Jackrabbits won 30 consecutive home games from Jan. 29, 2011 to Nov. 14, 2013.
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), and 2015-16 (12-0). SDSU is 4-0 at home this year.
Since 2011-12, South Dakota State has won 93.9 percent of its home games, a mark that ranks fifth among all Division I programs. The list of top 10 home winning percentages since 2011-12 is available on page three of the game notes.
South Dakota State has won 24 consecutive home nonconference games inside Frost Arena. That mark ranks ninth among the nation.

SDSU Signs Three
Owen King, Aaron Fiegen and Matthew Mimms signed their National Letters of Intent to join South Dakota State, announced Nov. 11 on National Signing Day.

King (Caledonia, Minnesota) averaged 19 points, five rebounds and six assists per game as a junior for Caledonia High School. He enters his senior season as the school's all-time leading scorer (1,925 points)
Fiegen (Madison, South Dakota) was a First Team All-State pick last year, averaging 15.5 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.1 assists per game in 2016-17.
Mimms (Fairfax, Iowa) is a two-time Iowa State Champion with Xavier High School. He averaged 15.5 points, five assists and 2.3 steals per game as a junior.

Dynamic Duo
Teammates Mike Daum and Reed Tellinghuisen are back after leading the team in scoring a year ago, and rank among the nation's best as a scoring duo with over 2,750 points between them in their careers. The Jacks are fourth in total career points as a pair as of Dec. 11, 2017.

Tacoma Talent
Tacoma, Washington native David Jenkins Jr. has burst on the scene through his first month of collegiate basketball, racking up 164 points and 30 3-pointers through 12 games. He has hit at least two 3-pointers in nine contests.

The lone West coach native on the Jackrabbit roster has reached double figures in nine of his first 12 games, becoming the first freshman to accomplish the feat at SDSU since Steve Holdren did it in nine of his first 12 in 2004-05.

Jenkins and Holdren are also the only two Jackrabbit freshmen to lead the team in scoring in their first collegiate game over the last 17 years (dating back to 2000-01 when game-by-game
stats were readily available).

Jenkins is second on the team with a 13.7 points per game average in 2017-18 and has shot 40.3 percent from the field, and 42.3 percent from long distance.

He is on pace to challenge Mike Daum's freshman scoring record of 518 points, set in 2015-16. Through 11 games that season, Daum had 129 points compared to Jenkins' 145.

Jenkins scored over 2,000 points in his high school career before spending a year at Sunrise Christian Academy Prep School. He was named as a newcomer to watch in The Summit League by TheAthletic.com's John Rohde.

Pointing The Way
Tevin King and Brandon Key have shared the point guard role through 12 games this season, complimenting each other and helping the team rank 18th nationally with 180 total assists.

Key has a team-high 51 assists (4.2 per game) to go with a 6.3 scoring average. He posted his first double-figure scoring game against Dakota State, and has dished three or more assists on nine occasions this season, including a pair of seven-assist efforts against Alabama State and DSU. Last Tuesday, Key had 10 points and five assists at Wichita State.

King has 36 assists and is averaging 9.3 points per contest while leading the team with 22 steals. The Chicago, Illinois native has already surpassed his 3-point total from a year ago, sitting with nine made 3s this season to go alongside a 53.6 field goal percentage. He has six double figure scoring games this season, and over the last three games, King has 39 points, 14 rebounds, 10 steals and 16 assists with just three turnovers.

Daum Named to Award Watch Lists
Mike Daum has earned a spot on three national award watch lists for the 2017-18 season, being named a preseason favorite for the Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year, Oscar Robertson Player of the Year and Lute Olson Player of the Year awards.

The Karl Malone Award is presented by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Named after Hall of Famer and two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Karl Malone, the annual honor in its fourth year recognizes the top power forwards in Division I men's college basketball. By mid-February, the watch list of 20 players for the 2018 Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year Award will be narrowed to just 10. In March, five finalists will be presented to Mr. Malone and the Hall of Fame's selection committee. The winner of the 2018 Karl Malone Award will be presented at the ESPN College Basketball Awards Show presented by Wendy's in Los Angeles, CA on Friday, April 6, 2018.
Daum was selected as one of 32 players on the 2017-18 Oscar Robertson Trophy Preseason Watch List, announced Nov. 6 by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association. The award is presented to the national player of the year by its namesake at the NCAA Final Four in San Antonio. In mid-March, the USBWA will announce its 2017-18 All-America Team and, at that time, finalists will also be chosen for the player of the year. Once finalists are announced, the entire USBWA membership will vote for the winner of the Oscar Robertson Trophy.
He was announced as one of 40 selections on the CollegeInsider.com Lute Olson Award Watch List Nov. 6 as well. The Lute Olson Award is presented annually to the nation's top Division I player who has played at least two seasons. The 2017-18 Lute Olson National Player of the Year Award will be announced on March 31, 2018 at the CollegeInsider.com Awards Event in San Antonio, site of the men's NCAA Basketball Championship.

Team Quick Hits

The Jacks are 6-2 when winning the rebounding battle and 2-2 when being out-rebounded. Twice this year the Jacks have posted a plus-20 rebounding margin. SDSU was 16-1 when outrebounding its opponent last year and 2-16 in games with the same or fewer rebounds. SDSU currently sits fourth nationally with 428 total rebounds.
South Dakota State forced 11 steals against Concordia (Neb.) on Dec. 8, tallying 10-or-more steals in a game for the first time since Nov. 19, 2015 at Illinois State (11).
Six Jackrabbits reached double figures against Concordia (Neb.) on Dec. 8 for the first time in a game since Feb. 28, 2013 at Omaha.
South Dakota State scored 100 points in a game against Concordia (Neb.) on Dec. 8 for the first time since the team went for 100 at Omaha on Feb. 28, 2013.
Twice this season the Jackrabbits have had two players score over 20 points in the same game. Mike Daum and David Jenkins Jr. did it against Alabama State (34 and 20) and Ole Miss (26 and 22).
South Dakota State is now nine wins away from the program's 1,500th victory. The Jacks won their 500th game in Frost Arena last season.
2017-18 marked the third time State has started 3-0 at the Division I level (dating back to transition year of 2004-05). The Jacks also did it in 2010-11 and 2015-16, when the team started an Division I-best 6-0.
At least one Jackrabbit has scored in double figures over the last 321 games dating back to Jan. 12, 2008 at IUPUI when Anthony Cordova had nine points to lead the Jacks.
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 snapped a streak of 90 games without a 1,000 point scorer when Mike Daum joined the club on Jan. 21, 2017. SDSU has now restarted a streak of 25 games with at least one 1,000-point scorer on the court.
SDSU has made at least one 3-pointer in 350 consecutive 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.
SDSU is 92-18 all-time in home openers (where records available). Dating back to 2004-05, SDSU's first year of DI transition, SDSU is 12-2.
SDSU is 73-39 in season-openers all-time. The Jacks are 6-8 in season-opening games at the Division I level.

Preseason All-Conference Team; Jacks Picked First
Mike Daum and Reed Tellinghuisen made repeat appearances on the Summit League's Preseason All-League teams, announced early-October. Daum was the Preseason Player of the Year with First Team honors while Tellinghuisen picked a Second Team nod for the second straight season.

Daum is the second Jackrabbit to be named Preseason All-Conference and the first to do it twice, joining Nate Wolters (2012-13).

As a team, South Dakota State was picked to win the league for the fourth time in program history.

SDSU Last Time Out (Dec. 8, 2017)
Six Jackrabbits scored in double figures as South Dakota State cruised to a 103-67 win over Concordia (Neb.) Friday night at Frost Arena

Playing in front of 2,105 fans at home, SDSU (8-4) snapped a two-game skid with the dominant victory, shooting 54.4 percent as a team with a 17-for-30 effort beyond the arc. The Jackrabbits have now made 15 or more 3-pointers in three games this year.

David Jenkins Jr. led all scorers with 19 points, hitting four treys while going 5-for-5 at the charity stripe. He now has four 20-point games in his career.

Skyler Flatten was close behind with a career-high 18 points of his own, tallying three dunks for the evening to go with four 3-pointers.

Mike Daum had 16 points and a team-high five rebounds and Ian Theisen added 15 points with three 3-pointers and four boards.

Reed Tellinghuisen had four assists to go with 14 points, and Tevin King posted 12 points, two 3-pointers, five assists (even with Brandon Key for the team-lead) and five steals, one swipe shy of his career-best.

The Jackrabbits forced 20 Bulldog turnovers and took advantage of the miscues, outscoring Concordia by 31 in points off of turnovers.

Even at five through the opening three minutes of action, State gained separation with a burst of seven unanswered and never looked back, pushing the lead to double figures just past the under-12 media.

Up by 14 (35-21) with seven minutes to go in the half, a pair of Tellinghuisen free throws sparked the Jackrabbits on their third 7-0 run of the night to push the advantage over 20, doubling up the Bulldogs, 42-21, on a Flatten 3-pointer near the five-minute mark.

The Jacks carried a 50-29 lead into the half, thanks to a 59.4 percent shooting effort and seven 3-pointers in the opening frame.

Concordia cut it to 18 (57-39) early in the second, but a Daum 3-pointer at 15:14 opened an 18-2 run over the next three minutes that squashed any Bulldog comeback hopes.

Ahead 75-41 at that point, State continued to push and broke the 100-point barrier on a 3-pointer from Theisen with 2:49 to play.

Opponent Last Time Out (Dec. 9, 2017)
UNDSports.com
GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- North Dakota State got a season-high 30 points from Paul Miller and opened the game on an 11-0 run to knock off North Dakota 88-79 Saturday at the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center.

It was the third-straight win for the Bison (4-5) on UND's home court (4-5) as the visitors snapped a three-game losing streak and gave the Fighting Hawks back-to-back losses for the first time this season.

Sophomore Marlon Stewart led UND with 23 points and junior Geno Crandall added 20 in the loss.

Sophomore Kienan Walter chipped in with a career-high 11 points off the bench, helping ease the absence of starter Cortez Seales (12.3 ppg), who missed the game to attend to a personal matter back home in Iowa.

"We got out of the gates slow, but I thought we did a good job of clawing back," UND head coach Brian Jones said. "But, it's about finishing with this group and once we'd get it back to a couple of possessions or a one-possession game, we continue to have guys stray from what we do and what brought us back into the game.

"That's been a common theme with this group. They have to be patient and understand to be disciplined on defense."

UND tried multiple times throughout the game, but could never fully recover from that game-opening 11-0 run. Miller and company got off to a fast start, going 9-for-11 from the floor to start and build a 23-13 advantage through the opening eight minutes of the game.

Tyson Ward knocked down a pair of treys in that opening stretch and finished with 15 points. He was the only Bison starter to miss more than one 3-pointer (3-for-6) as that unit went 11-for-15 from deep. A.J. Jacobson hit all three of his attempts and added 12 points for the visitors.

The Bison would push that lead to as much as 15 before the UND offense roared back late in the opening half.

A 16-2 run by the home team trimmed its deficit to 34-33 following an acrobatic layup by Crandall at the 3:06 mark.

Miller would squelch that spurt with a 3-pointer, however, and lead his team to a 10-4 half-closing run that made it a 44-37 contest at the break.

UND stayed in the game in the first half thanks to a 15-for-15 effort from the charity stripe and the Fighting Hawks would make 19-straight before finally missing one midway through the second half.

It was a similar story in the last 20 minutes as the Bison would build a double-digit lead again before UND staged a rally. Stewart closed the gap to just two at 68-66 after a pair of free throws at the 7:02 mark.

He finished with a career-best 13 makes from the charity stripe on 15 attempts, but the home team went 10-for-15 after the perfect start.

UND could never get over the hump those as Cameron Hunter hit a contested 3-pointer with just over four minutes to play that made it a 7-point lead for the Bison. Hunter had seven of his nine points down the stretch to help seal the win.

Crandall turned one of his career-high equaling five steals into a quick layup that pulled UND within six, but that would be as close as the Fighting Hawks could come in the closing two minutes.

Jacobson and Hunter each had a team-high six rebounds as NDSU finished with a 33-25 edge on the glass and finished shooting a season-best 59.6 percent from the field. UND ended up with a 44.2 percent field-goal clip, but made only four 3-pointers compared to 13 by NDSU.

-GoJacks.com-