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8:30 p.m.
Men's Basketball
vs Mayville State (Exhibition)
South Dakota State University Athletics
Saturday, November 10
Brookings, S.D.
4 p.m.
South Dakota State University
vs
Bemidji State
Photo by: Dave Eggen/Inertia
Men close homestand Saturday with Bemidji State
11/9/2018 8:38:00 AM | Men's Basketball
| Â GAME 3: South Dakota State (2-0) vs. Bemidji State (0-0) |
| Â When | Â Saturday, Nov. 10 | 4 p.m. |
|  Where |  Frost Arena | Brookings, S.D. |
| Â Radio | Â Jackrabbit Sports Network I WNAX 104.1 FM | Al Bahe |
| Â Live Video | Â Jackrabbits All-Access |
| Â Live Audio | Â Jackrabbits All-Access |
| Â Live Stats | Â GoJacksLive.com |
| Â Game Notes | Â South Dakota State | The Summit League |
| Â Social Media | Â Twitter I Facebook | #NextStep |
| Â Tickets | Â JackrabbitTickets.com |
Previewing the Game
South Dakota State closes a season-opening homestand Saturday when Bemidji State comes to town. Tipoff is set for 4 p.m. from Frost Arena.
The Jacks are the three-time defending Summit League tournament champions, and last year earned the program's first-ever outright Summit regular season title, going 13-1 in league play. SDSU carries the nation's longest active home-winning streak (22) after picking up a 79-74 season-opening victory Tuesday evening against Grand Canyon and a 78-61 win Thursday over Alabama State. The Jackrabbits are a combined 28-2 at Frost Arena under third-year head coach T.J. Otzelberger.
Bemidji State comes off a 12-16 overall record during the 2017-18 season and return two starters. Six letterwinners in total return for the 2018-19 season while nine newcomers join the program. The?Beavers played two exhibitions earlier this month, losing 86-83 to Valley City State and 97-51 to Northern Iowa.
The two programs have met five times prior to tonight's bout, with SDSU holding a 5-0 advantage in the all-time series. The last matchup came in 2003-04, when the Jacks knocked off the Beavers at home, 96-85.
About South Dakota State
Off to a 2-0 start on the season, South Dakota State faces another quick turnaround Saturday with its third game in five days.
The Jackrabbits have four players averaging double figures in the first week of the season, led by Mike Daum's 21.5 points per game. David Jenkins (18.5 points per game) dropped 31 in the season opener to get off to a fast start, while Skyler Flatten (13.0 ppg) and Matt Dentlinger (10.5 ppg) are in double figures as well.
Daum also paces the Jacks in rebounds (13.0) and assists (4.0), just ahead of Tevin King's 8.5 rebounds and 3.0 assists on average. Tevin, who is just shy of a double-figure scoring average (9.0 ppg), was dominant on the glass in game one, grabbing a career-best 12 rebounds from the point guard spot to help SDSU finish plus-13 on the glass against GCU -- a stat that proved vital towards SDSU's success a year ago, as the Jackrabbits were 20-2 when winning the rebounding battle in 2017-18.
Daum, a two-time Summit League Player of the Year and Associated Press All-American, now has 2,275 career points, he is closing in on Nate Wolters' all-time SDSU scoring record of 2,363 and is on pace to reach the mark by late-November.
Four newcomers have made their debut and appeared in two games already, as Dentlinger started and Alex Arians, Owen King and Alou Dillon came off the bench for valuable minutes.
Dentlinger has posted back-to-back seven rebound games against the Lopes and Hornets, and is shooting 53.3 percent from the field.
Arians, a First Team WBCA Division II pick as a senior in Madison, Wisconsin, recorded his first collegiate points against Alabama State, finishing with six tallies and five rebounds.
Dillon has shown promise on the defensive end with a block in both games while playing limited minutes (8.5 per game) ,and has six points and five rebounds this year.
Owen King, a four-time all-conference performer at Caledonia Area High School, Associated Press All-Second Team and final-five pick for Minnesota Mr. Basketball in 2018, has four assists on the season in 18 minutes of action and picked up three against Alabama State Thursday.
As a team, South Dakota State is averaging 78.5 points per contest and allowing 67.5. The Jackrabbits are shooting 46.8 percent from the field with a 14-for-39 mark beyond the arc.
About Bemidji State
Head Coach Mike Boschee enters his seventh season with the program after totaling a 76-91 record with the Beavers and a 191-206 career record in 15 seasons as a head coach. Assistant coaches Mike Iseman and Tim Wagner begin their first seasons in their respective positions in 2018-19 with the Beavers.
Logan Bader was named BSU's Player to Watch in the 2018-19 NSIC Preseason Coaches' Poll. He leads all BSU returners in scoring, rebounding, assists, steals and 3-point percentage. Bader averaged 11.8 points and 6.0 rebounds per game while shooting 50.2 percent from the field and 50.4 percent from 3-point range.
Bemidji State ranked 13th in scoring offense last season in the NSIC with 72.9 points per game. BSU's defense saw a boost during the 2017-18 season while ranking second in the conference allowing 44.0 percent shooting from the field and sixth allowing 36.1 percent shooting from long range.
A South Dakota State Win Would ...
Give SDSU its third win of the season and increase the nation's longest-active home winning streak to 23 games ... move the Jackrabbits to 6-0 all-time against Bemidji State ... push Otzelberger to 49-24 at South Dakota State ... give the Jacks a 1,514-1,031-1 program mark.
A South Dakota State Loss Would ...
End South Dakota State's nation-best 22-game active home winning streak and put the team at 2-1 on the year ... make Otzelberger 48-25 at South Dakota State ... drop SDSU to 1,513-1,032-1 all-time.
Preseason All-Conference Team; Jacks Picked First
Mike Daum and David Jenkins headlined the Summit League's preseason teams, announced early-October. Jenkins is a first-time preseason honoree while Daum earned his third-consecutive Preseason Player of the Year nod.
Daum is the second Jackrabbit to be named Preseason All-Conference and the first to do it more than once, joining Nate Wolters (2012-13).
As a team, South Dakota State was picked to win the league for the fifth time in program history, garnering 34 of 36 first-place votes.
#Chasing3K
South Dakota State's Mike Daum is within reach of rarefied air as he enters his senior campaign looking to become just the ninth men's basketball player all-time to reach 3,000 points. Daum currently sits tied for 178th on the NCAA's all-time scoring chart (after Thursday, Nov. 8's contest) and will look to climb the ranks throughout the year. He is currently first among active scorers, trailing only Campbell's Chris Clemons (2,276 points). A look at Daum's latest scoring chart listing can be found on page five of the game notes.
Let It Rain
South Dakota State's 3-point offense ranked amongst the nation's best a year ago for the second-straight season, and the Jackrabbits are primed for another year of hot shooting beyond the arc.
- South Dakota State reset the school record for single-season 3-pointers made (374) and attempted (927) in 2017-18 after breaking the previous record a year prior (318 of 883).
- South Dakota State returns three players who hit 50 or more 3-pointers last year in Mike Daum (96), David Jenkins (84) and Skyler Flatten (55). After breaking the single-season record a year ago, Daum now has 205 3-pointers in his career and is just 51 away from the program's career record.
- 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 and attempted in a Division I game.
- The Otzelberger-led Jackrabbits have hit 14 or more 3-pointers in 13 games over the last three seasons, and prior to his arrival a State team had hit 14 or more 3-pointers in just six games.
- Through the first 12 seasons of Division I basketball (starting in the first transition year of 2003-04 through 2015-16), SDSU had 71 games of 10 or more 3-pointers, with a max of 13 in one season (2010-13). The Jackrabbits have done it 34 times since then, hitting 10 or more in 21 games last year.
- Under Otzelberger, the Jackrabbits have attempted 30 or more 3-pointers in a game 15 times. The Pre-Otzelberger era teams did it on 11 total occasions since the adoption of the 3-point line in 1986. It happened three times at the Division II level and eight times between 2003-04 and 2015-16, the last season Scott Nagy led the program.
Tacoma Talent
Tacoma, Washington native David Jenkins made a statement early in 2018-19 to erase any doubt of a sophomore slump, matching his career-high in points (31) against Grand Canyon while scoring the final 10 Jackrabbit points to seal the home-opening victory. He now has 602 points in 37 career games.
Jenkins enters his second season of collegiate play as a hot commodity in the basketball realm, racking up an SDSU freshman record 565 points a year while finishing in the top 10 of freshman scorers nationwide. Additionally, Jenkins finished with 84 3-pointers (one shy of previous record, prior to Mike Daum breaking it with 96 last year) and hit at least two treys in 24 contests.
On Dec. 22, 2017 at Colorado, Jenkins set the school's freshman single-game scoring record with 31 and matched it Feb. 8, 2018 at Denver.
Jenkins has reached double figures in 29 career games (out of 37).
Jenkins and Steve Holdren are 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).
Fellow Tacoma native Isaiah Thomas, currently with the Denver Nuggets, had 541 points and 29 double figure games (out of 35 available) through his freshman season at Washington. Through 37 career games, Thomas had 594 points and 31 double-digit scoring performances
Somebody's Watching Me
South Dakota State's Mike Daum has been named to three national award watch lists in the 2018-19 preseason, with more recognition possible as additional lists are released this month.
- The John R. Wooden® presented by Wendy's® announced its Preseason Top 50 today on ESPN's SportsCenter and on ESPN.com, featuring Daum for the second-consecutive year. Chosen by a preseason poll of national college basketball experts, the list is comprised of 50 student-athletes who are the early front-runners for college basketball's most prestigious individual honor.
- The National Association of Basketball Coaches on Nov. 5 announced its preseason watch list for the 2019 NABC Division I Player of the Year Presented by ShotTracker, with Daum among the 20 names released. The 2019 NABC Division I Player of the Year award will be announced on Sunday, April 7, at the NABC Guardians of the Game Awards Show in Minneapolis, Minn. - site of the 2019 NCAA Final Four®.
- Daum was named to the 2019 Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year Award preseason watch list in mid-October by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The award, now in its fifth year, recognizes the top power forwards in Division I men's basketball. Daum was one of five finalists for the 2018 Karl Malone Award and is a repeat selection to the preseason watch list. The winner of the 2019 Karl Malone Award will be presented at The College Basketball Awards presented by Wendy's in Los Angeles, CA on Friday, April 12, 2019, along with the other four members of the Naismith Starting 5. Broadcast information will be released by ESPN at a later date.
- Watch lists for the Oscar Robertson Trophy and Lute Olson Award, both lists Daum was a part of in 2017-18, are set to be released this month.
#FearFrost
The Jacks own an 91-5 record at Frost Arena over the last seven seasons dating back to 2011-12, which includes perfect home records in five of the last seven years and a 1-0 start to the current campaign. That span includes two home winning streaks of 30 or more games.
- The Jackrabbits' current 22-game home winning streak ranks as the nation's longest active streak in Division I entering the 2018-19 season. The Jacks have held the nation's longest active-home winning streak twice in the last five years.
- Since 2011-12, South Dakota State has won 94.7 percent of its home games, a mark that top all Division I programs in that span. That list is on page three of the game notes.
- 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), 2015-16 (12-0) and 2017-18 (15-0).
- South Dakota State has won 30 consecutive home nonconference games inside Frost Arena entering this year. That mark ranks eighth nationally.
Charity Stripe Success
The Jackrabbit offense has found a comfort zone at the charity stripe over Otzelberger's tenure as head coach, leading the league in free throw makes (578), attempts (759) and percentage (.762) a year ago while ranking among the nation's top 50 in makes and attempts.
- South Dakota State got to the free throw line more than its opponents in 27 of 35 games last year.
- Mike Daum opened Summit League play with 35 consecutive free throws, matching the second-longest streak in Jackrabbit history (Garrett Callahan, 2008-09) after setting the record last season with 43 straight from Dec. 7-22, 2016.
- Mike Daum matched his school record of 16 made free throws (out of 16 attempts) at North Dakota State Jan. 3, 2018. He did it twice in 2016-17.
- Daum holds the school's single-season free throw record (set in 2016-17) and now is 590 of 693 in his career. He ranks second in career makes (58 shy of Nate Wolters' record) and fourth in attempts.
Daum Reaches 2,000 Points
Mike Daum became just the second Jackrabbit to score over 2,000 points in his career when he reached the mark Feb. 1, 2018 against North Dakota State. Daum is the 15th Summit League player to achieve 2,000 points, and ranks among the fastest to do it in the NCAA over the last 20 years.
Additionally, Daum stacks up well against previous Oscar Robertson Trophy and John R. Wooden Award winners over the last 25 years, reaching the 2,000-point mark faster than any previous winner. Daum was on the midseason Robertson Trophy Watch List and on the Wooden Award's preseason list in 2017-18, and was named to the 2018-19 Wooden Preseason list earlier this month.
Jacks Fifth in Preseason Mid-Major Top 25
The Jackrabbits were ranked fifth in the 2018-19 preseason College Sports Madness Mid-Major poll of the, behind only Gonzaga, Buffalo, Loyola Chicago and BYU.
The Jacks were ranked in all but one version of the poll last year and were in the top 10 for the last month of the season, sitting fourth in 2017-18's final poll.
Team Quick Hits
- SDSU's 28 wins in 2017-18 was the most in program history.
- South Dakota State went 12-0 when holding opponents under 70 points last season, while posting a 24-2 record when breaking the 70-point barrier on the offensive end.
- South Dakota State scored 100 or more four times last season. The last time SDSU had two or more 100-point games in a season was 2011-12, when the Jackrabbits did it twice. The Division I program record for 100-point games in a season is five, set in 2004-05, and the overall program record is six, set in 1997-98, 1991-92 and 1968-69.
- The Jackrabbits scored 90 or more points in 13 games last year and scored 80 or more in 23 games.
- Since T.J. Otzelberger's arrival three years ago, the Jackrabbits are 38-3 when winning the rebounding battle and 9-20 when being out-rebounded or tied on the boards.
- South Dakota State won its 1,500th game Jan. 20, 2018 at Western Illinois. The Jacks won their 500th game in Frost Arena in the 2016-17 regular season finale.
- 2017-18 marked the third time State 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 a Division I-best 6-0.
- At least one Jackrabbit has scored in double figures over the last 344 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 50 games with at least one 1,000-point scorer on the court.
- State has made at least one 3-pointer in 374 consecutive games. The last time the Jackrabbits did not make a 3-point field goal was Jan. 25, 2007
- SDSU is 93-18 all-time in home openers (where records available). Dating back to 2004-05, SDSU's first year of DI transition, SDSU is 14-2.
- SDSU is 74-39 in season-openers all-time. The Jacks are 7-8 in season-opening games at the Division I level.
- The Jackrabbits are 6-5 in Summit League openers.
Daum Eyes All-Time Scoring Mark
Mike Daum is just 88 points away from breaking Nate Wolters' all-time school scoring record on 2,363 points. Daum averaged 23.9 points per game last season, and if he continues that pace he will break the record in late-November. A look at SDSU's all-time scoring chart is on page 12 of the game notes.
Jackrabbits in Two Scheduling Agreements
Summit League and Western Athletic Conference officials announced in October the matchups and dates for the first year of The Summit League/WAC Challenge in men's basketball.
The Challenge features head-to-head competition between all nine teams. Matchups were set based upon factors including the previous year's achievements, records and RPI rankings, as well as projected rankings in the upcoming season. Those teams with home games in 2018 will play on the road in 2019 and vice versa. In addition, teams will not face the same opponent in back-to-back years.
The Jackrabbits played Grand Canyon Nov. 6 in their 2018-19 season opener and will travel to CSU Bakersfield in 2019-20 as part of the agreement.
Last year, the Jacks were announced as part of a four-year deal with the Big Sky.
Each school will play one home game and road contest against separate schools from the other league during each of the four seasons. South Dakota State joins North Dakota State, North Dakota and Omaha as Summit League representatives, while Montana State, Montana, Idaho and Eastern Washington are participating from the Big Sky.
The Jackrabbits will play the following games as part of the agreement:
2018-19: Montana (home), Eastern Washington (away)
2019-20: Idaho (home), Montana State (away)
2020-21: Eastern Washington (home), Montana (away)
2021-22: Montana State (home), Idaho (away)
Tough Tests
South Dakota State played five Power Five (ACC, SEC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12) opponents a year ago (in addition to a matchup at then-No. 6 Wichita State of the American Athletic Conference).
Although the team does not have any power five opponents on this year's schedule, the Jacks will travel to AAC's Memphis and preseason No. 7/9 Nevada of the Mountain West.
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 in 2017-18 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.
In 10 games against power five opponents for his career, Mike Daum is averaging 18.5 points and 7.1 rebounds per game, shooting 44.1 percent from the field and 44.2 percent from deep. He has two double-doubles in those matchups.
SDSU Last Time Out (Nov. 8)
South Dakota State men's basketball improved to 2-0 on the year with a 78-61 victory over Alabama State Friday evening, taking down the Hornets in front of 2,279 fans at Frost Arena.
The Jackrabbits, led by four double-figure scorers, shot 45.3 percent from the field and never trailed in their nation-best 22nd consecutive home victory.
Mike Daum notched a 23-point, 13-rebound double-double with four assists. Skyler Flatten finished 6-for-12 from the field with 17 points and five rebounds and Tevin King added 12 points, five boards and a team-best five assists on 4-for-4 shooting.
Matt Dentlinger reached double figures for the second-straight night, adding 10 points to the Jackrabbit offense to go alongside a seven-rebound performance.
"That wasn't the prettiest game I've ever been a part of—on either end I think," head coach T.J. Otzelberger said. "I'm proud of our guys for the way they came out and thought we had great energy from the start but that faded throughout the course of the game. It felt like our offensive execution was really good, especially that first half.
"Defensively, (we were) not quite where we wanted to be. So we're continuing to preach to our guys that we're playing against ourselves and trying to be at our best, and certainly that wasn't the case there in the second half and they had a lot to do with that. I mean, their zone—we hadn't seen a lot of zone up to this point. I've spent a lot of time working on it and it's something we definitely need to commit to. But credit to them for mixing it up and putting us on our heels."
South Dakota State started fast as Skyler Flatten scored the game's first six points, but found itself in an offensive shootout for much of the opening half as Alabama State used a hot hand from beyond the arc to stay within striking distance early.
Tied at 8-all, SDSU scored seven unanswered to gain separation just past the under-16 media, only to see Alabama State hang around and pull back within four (20-16) at 10:44.
The next five minutes of action saw the Jacks' lead grow to double figures (39-28) on a Dentlinger layup, and although the Hornets closed it to seven moments later, a 9-0 scoring burst allowed SDSU to pull away for good late in the half and carry a 54-38 advantage into the locker room.
The Jacks grew their lead to 22 (60-38) behind a pair of David Jenkins 3-pointers to begin the second half, and although SDSU faced a seven-plus minute scoring drought midway through the second half, a strong defensive showing limited the Hornets from making a significant run.
Flatten hit a 3-pointer at 4:41 to stop the drought and put the Jackrabbits ahead 73-57 and ended any threat of a Hornet comeback as SDSU closed out the victory.
Opponent Last Time Out (Nov. 6)
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (McLeod Center) -- Junior guard Ja Morgan led the Bemidji State University men's basketball team in scoring for the second straight exhibition game despite a 97-51 loss at University of Northern Iowa. Morgan went 6-of-9 shooting from the field while freshman Max Bjorklund totaled seven points in six minutes.
A sluggish start put the Beavers in a hole early after beginning the game 1-of-6 from the field, as BSU's first points came from junior guard Ja Morgan. BSU snapped a 15-2 run by UNI to start the game with a layup by sophomore forward Derek Thompson and a jumper by sophomore guard Jacob Hoffman to bring the deficit to 15-6 five minutes into play.
Northern Iowa's defense held Bemidji State to 1-of-6 shooting over a 4:30 span to extend its initial lead, 29-8. Morgan added six points while junior forward Logan Bader scored four to end the half. BSU outshot UNI over the final 9:28 of the first half, 6-for-13 compared to 6-for-15 for the Panthers. UNI took a 49-24 lead into halftime.
After Morgan and Thompson scored the first three points of the second period, Northern Iowa went on runs of 15-2 and 14-2 through the 8:43 mark. BSU again outshot UNI through the latter half of the period, going 6-for-12 from the field compared to 5-of-18 for the Panthers.
Morgan led all Beavers with 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting from the floor and 1-for-1 from beyond the arc. He also added three rebounds and one assist. Thompson and Bjorklund followed Morgan with seven points each. Thompson led the team with six rebounds while Bjorklund went 2-for-2 from the field and 3-for-3 from the free throw line in six minutes of play.
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