Men defeat Fort Wayne, 97-90

Saturday, February 24

Fort Wayne, Ind.

6 p.m. CT / 7 p.m. ET

South Dakota State University

25-6, 13-1SL

Fort Wayne

18-13, 7-7SL

South Dakota State

Fort Wayne

Photo by: Inertia Sports Media/Dave Eggen

2/24/2018 8:43:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score

FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- South Dakota State men's basketball closed out the regular season with a 97-90 win Saturday at Fort Wayne in front of 1,824 fans at the Gates Sports Center.

SDSU (25-6, 13-1 Summit League) shot 49.3 percent in the game and hit 16-of-33 from deep as five Jackrabbits scored in double figures.

Mike Daum led the way with his 11th 30-point game of the season, finishing with 31 with eight 3-pointers (out of 12 attempts). He added a team-high 13 rebounds for his 18th double-double this year.

David Jenkins Jr. added 16 in the scoring column and dished four assists, even with Brandon Key and one behind Tevin King's five for the team-lead. King notched his second career double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds.

Reed Tellinghuisen was 3-for-5 from deep to score 13 points, while Flatten rounded out the top scorers with 10 of his own.

Fort Wayne (18-13, 7-7 Summit League) shot 45.5 percent as a team and John Konchar scored 31.

Down five (18-13) at the under-12 media break, a layup from Key out of the rest sparked the Jackrabbits on a 17-1 run over the next four and half minutes, helping State build a 30-19 lead with 7:31 to play.

SDSU built its lead to 15 on a Tellinghuisen 3-pointer at 5:43, but saw the Mastodons rally to within five (43-38) down the stretch before Daum hit the final basket of the half and sent the Jacks into the break ahead, 45-38.

Ahead by nine (53-44) early in the second, Daum scored the game's next 11 points to propel State on a 16-2 run and give the Jacks their largest lead of the night (69-46) with 13:45 to play.

The 'Dons, however, came roaring back with runs of six, eight and 11 answered to climb within three (79-76) around the seven-minute mark, and later made it a one-point game (82-81) with 4:41 on the clock.

The teams traded buckets until the final minute but the Jacks never relinquished the lead and scored six points in the final 48 seconds to complete the season sweep of the Mastodons.

Game Notes

South Dakota State is now 18-12 all-time against Fort Wayne and has won four straight against the Mastodons dating back to last season.
Mike Daum and Tevin King put together double-doubles in the same game for the second time this season, last doing it Jan. 27 against the Mastodons in Frost Arena.
The Jackrabbits will be the No. 1 seed for the Summit League Championships for the third time in program history. SDSU is 5-1 in the tournament as the No. 1 seed after earning a share of the regular season title three times prior to this season.
At least three Jackrabbits have reached double figures in the same game in 21 straight contests.
SDSU reached the 25-win mark for the fifth time in its Division I history.

Up Next
South Dakota State has locked up the No. 1 seed in next week's Summit League Championship and will play in the 6 p.m. game Saturday night against eighth-seeded Western Illinois. The Jacks defeated the Fighting Leathernecks twice this season by an average of 24 points.

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