Men's Basketball hosts Denver on Senior Day

Saturday, February 25

Brookings, S.D.

4 p.m.

South Dakota State University

Denver

Photo by: Andrew Sogn/SDSU Sports Information

2/24/2017 10:14:00 AM | Men's Basketball

SDSU Game Notes

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The Setup

South Dakota State welcomes Denver to Frost Arena Saturday for the regular season finale. Tip is set for 4 p.m.
SDSU enters the weekend 14-16 overall with a 7-8 mark in conference play. Denver is 16-12 on the year and 8-7 in The Summit League.
The Jackrabbits are tied for fifth in the conference standings with Fort Wayne and IUPUI, while Denver is one-game ahead of the Jacks and in a two-way tie for third with Omaha.
State is coming off a pair of wins last week against IUPUI and Fort Wayne. The Pioneers dropped an 84-83 contest to Omaha last Wednesday.
Tonight's contest is a rematch from Jan. 25 in Denver, where SDSU fell 91-82. Mike Daum scored 29 points to lead all scorers in the game while A.J. Hess (19 points) and Ian Theisen (10 points) reached double figures as well. A.J. Hess went down late in that game, but made his return last Saturday at Fort Wayne. For Denver, Jake Pemberton led the Pioneers with 25 points as one of four DU players in double figures.
The Jackrabbits and Pioneers have squared off 16 times prior to tonight's action, with SDSU holding a 10-6 series lead. SDSU has won six of the last eight matchups dating back to 2013-14 when DU joined the conference.
As part of the regular season finale, South Dakota State will recognize its two seniors, A.J. Hess and Michael Orris, post-game of Saturday's matchup.

Summit League Tournament Outlook

Official Summit League Tournament pairings will be announced by The Summit League Saturday evening after completion of all regular season games.
All eight teams have locked up spots in the year-end tournament, but seeding remains in flux entering the final day of play.
Seeds 1, 2, 7 and 8 play on the first day of the Summit League Tournament (March 4) and the winners have a day off before Monday's semifinals. Sunday's contests feature seeds 3, 4, 5 and 6.
At 7-8 in conference play, SDSU is tied with IUPUI and Fort Wayne for fifth. Denver and Omaha are both 8-7 on the year and the Mavs host first-place North Dakota State Saturday. IUPUI is at home against South Dakota and Western Illinois welcomes Fort Wayne to Macomb, Illinois.
Per the Summit League website, tiebreaker scenarios are:

If two teams are tied:

Results of head-to-head competition between the two tied teams.
Comparison of each tied team's record against the team occupying the highest position in the standings continuing down through the standings until a team gains an advantage.
When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team's record against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to that group's own tie-breaking procedure) rather than the performance against individual tied teams.
If a tie still cannot be broken after applying criteria (1), (2) and (3), it will be broken by comparing each tied team's RPI (based upon the RPIratings.com Report issued on the morning following the last regular season League game).

If more than two teams are tied:

Results of each tied team's collective record against the other teams tied for the same position.
If multiple ties still remain, then each tied team's record shall be compared to the team or group (if 2 or more are tied) occupying the highest position in the standings continuing down through the standings until a team gains an advantage.
If the above results in two teams remaining, the two-team tiebreaker is used.
If a tie involving three or more teams still cannot be broken after applying criteria (1) and (2), it will be broken by comparing each tied team's RPI (based upon the RPIratings.com Report issued on the morning following the last regular season League game.)

Scouting the Pioneers

Denver comes to Frost Arena tied for third in the conference standings after dropping a midweek contest to Omaha at home.
The Pioneers are averaging 76.4 points per game as a team while shooting 48.6 percent from the field combined.
Opponents are putting up 73.9 points per game on average against DU with a 43.9 field goal percentage.
On the boards, Denver holds a plus-4.7 rebounding margin that ranks second in the conference.
DU boasts three starters averaging double figures in Daniel Amigo (16.1 ppg), Joe Rosga (15.4 ppg) and C.J. Bobbitt (10.1). Fellow starter Jake Pemberton is close behind at 9.5 points per contest.
Amigo's 7.4 rebounds per game is fifth in the Summit League as the big man has grabbed 199 total boards.

From Long Range

SDSU has fired a school record 770 3-pointers this season with one game remaining before the conference tournament. The previous record of 732 was set in 2014-15.
The school record for 3-pointers made in a season is 284 (2011-12). SDSU has made 280 3-pointer through 30 games and sits tied for second on that record list.
South Dakota State has attempted fewer than 20 3-pointers in a game just four times this season. The Jacks average 25.7 3-point attempts per contest and are 30th nationally with 9.3 3-pointers made per game.
As of Feb. 23, the Jacks rank 13th in NCAA Division I in 3-point attempts (770) and are 16th nationally in 3-pointers made (280), shooting at 36.4 percent beyond the arc.
SDSU leads the conference in 3-point attempts and is second in 3-pointers made.
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 have set a new school single-game record for 3-pointers made twice this season. Entering 2016-17, the previous mark was 15, set at Oakland on Dec. 31, 2008. SDSU hit 16 at Idaho on Nov. 21 and reset the record Jan. 21, 2017 against Fort Wayne, sinking 17 from long range.
Mike Daum set a school record for 3-pointers made and attempted against Fort Wayne on Jan. 21, going 10 of 16 beyond the arc. Daum's 10 3-pointers made is fourth most in Summit League history. He reset the school record for attempts in a game Feb. 18 with 18 at Fort Wayne.
Mike Daum (67), Reed Tellinghuisen (65), A.J. Hess (62) are all at or above 60 made 3-pointers this season and are closing in on the top 10 of SDSU's single season record list (No. 10 is 68).
Reed Tellinghuisen ranks seventh on SDSU's single-season 3-point attempts record list with 189 this year. He will join the top five if he shoots 191 for the season, and No. 1 on the list is Clint Sargent (2010-11) with 213 3-point attempts.

Charity Stripe Success

South Dakota State has gotten to the free throw line more than its opponents in 24 of 30 games this season. The Jackrabbits are shooting 77.5 percent on free throws this season, have four players at or above the 80 percent mark and eight active players shooting above 70 percent on free throws.
As of Feb. 23, South Dakota State ranks 30th in free throw attempts (688), ninth nationally in free throws made (533) and 10th in free throw percentage (.775).
SDSU leads the conference percentage, is second in makes and third in attempts.
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).
Mike Daum set a school record with 16 made free throws (out of 16 attempts) against Murray State (Dec. 18) and tied it Feb. 18 at Fort Wayne.
Daum is third on the single season free throw makes record list (220) and fifth in free throw attempts (251) for a season at SDSU. He is 31 makes short of the school record and 50 shy of the attempts mark.
As of Feb. 23, Daum remains the national leader in free throw makes (220) and is second in attempts (251).

#FearFrost

The Jacks own a 73-5 record at Frost Arena over the last five seasons, which includes perfect home records in four of the last five years. That span includes two home winning streaks of 30 or more games.
SDSU's 34-game winning streak ranked as the nation's second longest active streak when it ended Wednesday, Dec. 28. The streak began Jan. 30, 2014.
SDSU 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).
Since 2011-12, South Dakota State has won 93.6 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 four of the game notes.

Player Quick Hits

SDSU owns two of the top four NCAA scoring performances in the last five seasons (Nate Wolters - 53 in 2013 vs Fort Wayne, Mike Daum - 51 in 2017 vs Fort Wayne).
A.J. Hess went down with an arm injury at Denver on Jan. 23 and made his return to the court Feb. 18 at Fort Wayne. He is expected to be available this weekend
Ian Theisen has missed the last six games with a lower leg injury. His status is unknown for Saturday's season finale.
Feb. 4 against Oral Roberts marked the first time South Dakota State had two players post double-doubles since Nov. 11, 2014 when Cody Larson and Zach Horstman did it. Against ORU, Mike Daum had 38 points and 17 rebounds and Chris Howell finished with 20 points and 12 rebounds.
After seeing limited action with a 2.8 ppg average in the non-conference portion of 2016-17, Chris Howell has burst onto the scene as a top scoring option in conference play. Howell is averaging 11.5 points per game in 13 Summit League contests and has reached double figures in the six of the last seven games.
Reed Tellinghuisen went off for a career-high 28 points and eight 3-pointers at South Dakota on Feb. 11, 2017, helping the Jacks recover from a 14-point deficit with five 3-pointers in the second half. SDSU lost the game but Tellinghuisen led all scorers.
Michael Orris has 53 assists over the last nine games after tallying 26 assists in the nine games prior. He had a career-high 10 assists against Fort Wayne on Jan. 21, which was the most for a Jackrabbit since Nate Wolters went for 12 against Fort Wayne on March 11, 2013.
In 13 conference games, Michael Orris has a 1.9 assist-to-turnover ratio with 70 assists and 36 turnovers.
Reed Tellinghuisen has hit double figures in 20 of 30 games this season, pushing his career mark in that category to 48 games with double figures. Tellinghuisen is second on the active career scoring list and is 42 points shy of joining the 1,000 points club.
Reed Tellinghuisen ranks 66th nationally and second in The Summit League with 993 total minutes played this season.
After a slow start to the season where A.J. Hess scored just 11 points total in the first four games, the graduate transfer raised his average to 10.8 points per game with 14 double figure scoring games and a double-double before an injury stalled his graduate transfer season. Hess reached double figures in six consecutive games before going down, and in 10 of the last 11 before that point.
A.J. Hess came to South Dakota State with 840 career points at Southern Utah. On Dec. 28, 2016, Hess scored his 1,000 career point against North Dakota State.
Cole Gentry, who started four games for the Jackrabbits earlier this season, has been granted his release from the program.
A.J. Hess posted his first career double-double on Jan. 4 at Western Illinois, scoring 13 points to go alongside a career-high 14 rebounds.
A.J. Hess pulled down 42 total rebounds over 15 non-conference games to open the year, but in the first half of conference play Hess had 51 over eight games. Hess set career-highs in rebounds against North Dakota State (10) and Western Illinois (14).
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 put together SDSU's first 30-point game at Idaho (scoring 31) since Nov. 26, 2013 when Jordan Dykstra had 32 against Lehigh.

Team Quick Hits

South Dakota State has scored 50 or more in a half six times this season, including five second half performances of 50 or greater that have led to wins against Omaha, Oral Roberts, IUPUI and Fort Wayne in the last four weeks.
Winning the rebounding battle has been vital to SDSU's success this year. The Jacks are 12-1 in games they out-rebound opponents and 1-12 in contests they trail in rebounding margin. State is 1-3 in games it matches opponents on rebounds.
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 13 times this season.
The Jacks are 32nd nationally and lead the conference with just 16.4 personal fouls per game.
At least one Jackrabbit has scored in double figures over the last 306 games dating back to Jan. 12, 2008 at IUPUI when Anthony Cordova has nine points to lead the Jacks.
Eight times this season the Jacks have seen four players reach double figures. The Jacks last did it Feb. 15 when Mike Daum (24), Reed Tellinghuisen (16), Chris Howell (16) and Michael Orris (13) reached the mark against IUPUI.
Four times this season South Dakota State has had two players score over 20 points in the same game. It last happened Feb. 11, 2017 at South Dakota when Reed Tellinghuisen scored 28 and Mike Daum finished with 22. Daum has been a part of all three occurances this year.
SDSU has had five different players hit double figures in a game three times this season. The Jacks first did it in the win over Minnesota Crookston on Nov. 30, 2016. SDSU also did it Jan. 7 against Omaha and against Western Illinois Feb. 1. SDSU has made at least one 3-pointer in 334 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.
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 eight games with a 1,000 point scorer on the court.
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 -- Feb. 18, 2017
FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Mike Daum posted the nation's top scoring performance of the year and South Dakota State pulled out a 97-89 road win over Fort Wayne Saturday night.
1,521 fans at the Gates Center witnessed history as Mike Daum scored 51 points for the Jackrabbits to go with 15 rebounds. He was 16 of 17 at the charity stripe.
Joining Daum in double figures was Skyler Flatten, who had 14 with four 3-pointers and Chris Howell, who finished with 12 points and six rebounds.
  SDSU (14-16, 7-8 Summit League) shot 53.6 percent from the field and hit 26 of 30 free throw attempts, adding 11 3-pointers. The Mastodons hit 52.2 percent of their field goals with seven 3-pointers and a 10 of 13 effort at the line.
A frantic pace carried the teams through the opening half with 95 combined points as the Jacks went into the locker room down 48-47.
Trailing 19-12 past the 13-minute mark, SDSU scored nine straight over the next 90 seconds to take a 21-19 lead. From there, a pair of momentum swings put Fort Wayne up eight before SDSU responded with a 14-4 run and led, 40-38, at 5:46. The final six minutes of the period saw pace of play slow, and State went to the break behind one.
  SDSU opened the second on a 9-4 run to take the lead, and though Fort Wayne regained control briefly with just over 16 minutes to play, 12 points from Daum in the next four minutes put the Jacks in the driver's seat past the 12-minute media timeout.
FW tied it two more times on the night, but the Jackrabbits never relinquished their advantage and led by as many as eight. Inside two minutes to go, the 'Dons cut the lead to one, 90-89, but State scored the final seven points to pull out the win.

Pioneers' Last Time Out -- Feb. 22, 2017
  DENVER - The University of Denver men's basketball team fought hard but came up just short on Wednesday, losing 84-83 to Omaha on Senior Day in Magness Arena. The Pioneers dropped to 16-12 (8-7 SL) with the loss, while the Mavericks improved to 15-13 (8-7 SL) on the season.
The win gave UNO the season series against DU.
Joe Rosga led Denver with a team-high 24 points, his eighth game this year of scoring at least 20.
Daniel Amigo added 18 points and eight rebounds before fouling out.
C.J. Bobbitt chipped in with 14.
The Mavericks were led by Marcus Tyus' game-high 30 points.
Both teams started hot from beyond the arc, with each combining to knock down five 3s in the first five minutes. Omaha was able to take a three-point advantage into the first media timeout thanks to a fast start from Tyus, who scored eight of the Mavericks' first 11 points.
A scoring battle between Rosga and Tyus broke out for the next several minutes, with each trying to outdo the other on the offensive end of the floor. The two combined to score 22 out the first 42 points recorded in the contest.
Denver was able to take a four-point lead by the under-eight media timeout due to some key baskets from Amigo and Bobbitt.
The Pioneers continued to build their lead due to some big defensive stops -- something emphasized in practice throughout the week. DU got its biggest lead of the night at nine after a basket from Ade Murkey at the 4:31 mark.
Omaha responded, though, with an 8-0 run to get within one after another 3 from Tyus, his fourth made triple in the opening half.
The furious finish resulted in the Mavericks taking a 46-42 lead into the break.
Rosga's hot first half kept Denver close in the opening 20 minutes, scoring 14 in the frame, more than his previous point totals from his last two games.
The Pioneers shot 55.6 percent from the field in the half.
In the second half, DU got off to a good start, using a 10-3 run to take a three-point lead by the under-16 media timeout. Omaha struggled to find its shot during the first four minutes of action, going 1-for-8 during the stretch.
Amigo got himself going after that, piling up a flurry of points to keep Denver up by four midway through the half.
Neither team could find separation, making it a one-point game with 4:17 left after another 3 from Tyus put the Mavericks 77-76.
The Pioneers came up with a clutch score late from Bobbitt, who made a layup with 12 seconds left to put them up by one.
However, UNO countered the heroics with some of its own, getting the game-winning basket from Mitch Hahn with one second left on the clock.

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.

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