Jacks conclude road trip at Nebraska

GAME 5: South Dakota State (3-1) at Nebraska (0-2)

When	Friday, Nov. 15 \| 8 p.m.
Where	Pinnacle Bank Arena \| Lincoln, Neb.
Live Audio / Radio	Jackrabbits All-Access \| Jackrabbit Sports Network I WNAX 570 AM \| Tyler Merriam
Television / Live Video	Big Ten Network \| Fox Sports App \| Chris Vosters and Nick Bahe
Live Stats	Huskers.com
Game Notes	South Dakota State \| Nebraska
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Previewing the Game
Jackrabbit men's basketball returns to the Midwest this weekend to conclude a three-game road swing, traveling to Lincoln, Nebraska Friday. South Dakota State will take on the Cornhuskers at 8 p.m. from Pinnacle Bank Arena.

South Dakota State is the two-time defending Summit League regular season champions, and under the direction of new head coach Eric Henderson are off to a 3-1 start this season.

Nebraska is 0-2 to open the season under new coach Fred Hoiberg. The Huskers dropped a 66-47 season opener against UC Riverside and fell to Southern Utah in double overtime last week, 79-78.

This is the 12th meeting between the programs, with State looking for its first win against Nebraska.

About South Dakota State
South Dkaota State opened the season with three-straight wins and will look to bounce back Friday after a midweek loss at Southern California.

Douglas Wilson is off to a fast start in his first year as a Jackrabbit, reaching double figures in all four games with a team-high 19.5 scoring average. The two-time NJCAA All-American and 2018-19 NJCAA Player of the Year has one double-double for the Jackrabbits, adding 7.3 rebounds per game for the season alongside a 57.6 field goal percentage.

Brandon Key (11.8 points per game) has been electric in the point, posting a pair of double-digit scoring performances on the season with 16 assists (four per game). Key is back for the Jackrabbits after redshirting a year ago. He had 112 assists in 2017-18.

Matt Dentlinger turned in a double-double in the season opener (17 points, 14 rebounds), and is averaging 10 points and seven boards per game through four contests. The big man is 12-of-21 from the field (57.1 percent) and has eight offensive rebounds.

Alex Arians is the most experienced Jackrabbit as a sophomore after starting 33 games a year ago. Arians has logged 28 minutes per game in 2019-20 and has 18 points (4.5 per game) and 24 rebounds (6.0 average) for State.

Noah Freidel, the 2019 Argus Leader Class A Player of the Year, has started the first four games of career and is playing 19.8 minutes per game, posting 10 in the scoring column against CSU Bakersfield for his first collegiate double-digit scoring game. He has four 3-pointers for the year, just behind Baylor Scheierman (six) and David Wingett (six) for the team lead.

Scheierman (8.8 points per game, eight assists) has 25 rebounds off the bench, sitting fourth on the team in scoring and third in rebounds.

Wingett is fifth on the team in scoring for the year at 8.3 points per game, reaching double figures in the last two games.

Wingett joined the Jackrabbit squad in late May as a transfer from Memphis and received an NCAA waiver for immediate eligibility. The Winnebago, Nebraska product scored over 2,200 points in his high school career and spent a season at Bull City Prep Academy.

Scheierman is a two-time Class B All-State, All-Area and All-Conference selection from Aurora, Nebraska, and as a senior averaged 22.1 points, 9.8 rebounds and 6.5 assists per game while helping his team to a state tournament berth.

The Jackrabbits have held opponents under 60 points in two games while averaging 78.8 points on the offensive end, posting double-digit rebounding margins in two contests as well.

SDSU is shooting 44.5 percent as a team and averaging 45.5 boards per game.

About Nebraska
The Huskers are coming off a 19-17 campaign a year ago and enter this 2019-20 season with a fresh look, returning only 2.0 points per game off last year's team and under the direction of Hoiberg, who was hired last spring.

Nebraska averages 62.5 points per game in the young season, led by a quartet of double-figure scorers, including Cam Mack who is averaging 12.0 points and eight boards per game with a team-high 14 assists.

Jervay Green and Kevin Cross sit at 11.5 points per game, as Green has hit a team-high three 3-pointers alongside 10 rebounds.

Dachon Burke Jr. has 20 points for the season and 35.3 shooting percentage.

The Huskers are minus-10 on the boards through two games at 62.5 rebounds per contest, shooting 33.6 percent as a team with 11 total 3-pointers.

A South Dakota State Win Would ...
Give SDSU a 3-1 record on the year ... hand the Jacks their eighth win over a Power Five program ... make coach Henderson 4-1 in his first season and the Jacks 2-1 in road games this year ... give the Jacks a 1,539-1,041-1 program mark.

A South Dakota State Loss Would ...
Deal the Jackrabbits their second-consecutive loss and put the team at 3-2 on the year ... make SDSU 0-13 all-time against Nebraska and 1-2 on the current road trip ... give the Jacks a 1,538-1,042-1 program mark.

New Faces, New Roles
South Dakota State's lineup will feature new roles and new faces throughout the season, as the Jackrabbits return only 16.9 percent of their scoring from 2018-19, and 10.7 percent of their 3-point makes. SDSU's 15.8 points per game returning ranks sixth-lowest nationally, and the 16.9 percent back is the third-lowest margin (according to available records).

#FearFrost

The Jacks own a 105-6 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. That span includes two home winning streaks of 30 or more games and three of 25 or more.
Since 2011-12, South Dakota State has won 94.6 percent of its home games, a mark that top all Division I programs in that span. 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 won 26 consecutive home games from Dec. 31, 2016 to Dec. 22, 2018.
South Dakota State won 34 consecutive home nonconference games inside Frost Arena from Dec. 31, 2016 to Dec. 22, 2018. That mark was the fourth-longest active streak when it ended.
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).

Quick Hits

SDSU's 93-91 victory over CSU Bakersfield saw five Jackrabbits reach double figures for the first time in 2019-20. The feat last happened Jan. 31, 2019 against Oral Roberts.
State posted back-to-back 50-rebound games to open the season. The last time an SDSU program had 50-plus rebounds in consecutive games was Dec. 15 and 27, 2002 against Finlandia (60) and Fort Lewis (58). The Jacks also had three-straight games with 50-plus rebounds that season: Nov. 23, 29 and 30.
Douglas Wilson's 24 points on Nov. 5 are the most in a Jackrabbit debut dating back to 2000-01, when game-by-game statistics were readily available.
South Dakota State has not lost three consecutive games since January 2017.
SDSU went 13-0 when holding opponents under 70 points last season (11-9 when not) and scored 70-plus points in 32 of 33 contests. The Jackrabbits were 12-0 when holding opponents under 70 points in 2017-18. The Jacks have accomplished the feat twice this year.
At least one Jackrabbit has scored in double figures over the last 379 games dating back to Jan. 12, 2008 at IUPUI when Anthony Cordova had nine points to lead the Jacks.
State has made at least one 3-pointer in 409 consecutive games. The last time the Jackrabbits did not make a 3-point field goal was Jan. 25, 2007
SDSU is 94-18 all-time in home openers (where records available). Dating back to 2004-05, SDSU's first year of DI transition, SDSU is 12-4 in those games.
SDSU is 75-39 in season-openers all-time. The Jacks are 8-8 in season-opening games at the Division I level.

Jackrabbits in Two Scheduling Agreements
Summit League teams are in year two of scheduling agreements with the Western Athletic Conference and Big Sky.

The Jackrabbits took on Grand Canyon last year in the first year of the Summit League/WAC challenge, defeating the Lopes in the 2018-19 season opener. Year two of the challenge sent SDSU to face CSU Bakersfield Nov. 9, where the Jacks claimed a 93-91 double-overtime win.

The scheduling agreement with the Big Sky is a four-year contract. The Jackrabbits will play the following games as part of the deal:

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 has four Power Five (ACC, SEC, Big 12, Big Ten, PAC-12) opponents on the 2019-20 schedule, facing USC, Nebraska, Arizona and Indiana this season.

South Dakota State has seven wins over Power Five programs since joining The Summit League in 2007, picking up victories 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.

Jacks Picked Fifth in Preseason Poll
South Dakota State men's basketball earned two first-place votes and was tabbed fifth in the 2019-20 Summit League men's basketball preseason poll, released in October.

The poll is voted on by league coaches, sports information directors and select media.

Jackrabbits' Last Time Out
LOS ANGELES -- The Jackrabbit men's basketball program saw its three-game winning streak come to an end Tuesday night at Southern California, falling 84-66 at the Galen Center.

South Dakota State (3-1) staged a number of rallies throughout the contest, but ultimately saw a hard fought battle with 40 combined fouls lean towards the Trojans (3-0).

Douglas Wilson led the Jackrabbit scoring attack with 15 points, while David Wingett reached double figures as well, tallying 10 points with a pair of 3-pointers.

Baylor Scheierman pulled down a team-best seven rebounds, adding nine points and two assists.

Brandon Key (eight points) and Matt Dentlinger (seven points) each had four rebounds and led the team with three assists.

Slow-going early on, the Jacks held a 4-3 advantage at the under-16 media break. Moments later, however, South Dakota State saw USC break out on a 7-0 run while building towards a 26-10 lead with under seven to play in the half.

A Dentlinger layup at 6:21, though, started a long climb back for the Jacks as they cut the lead to single-digits, 38-31 at halftime. All told, SDSU outscored the Trojans 21-12 over the final six-plus minutes of the opening frame.

State kept the momentum out of the locker room and cut it to one (40-39) with a Noah Freidel 3-pointer at 18:11, then again had it within one (45-44) after a Key trey at 15:31. The Trojans scored the next 11 go grow their lead back to double figures (56-44), but the Jacks continued to fight and drew back within three, 59-56, after Scheierman followed his own 3-pointer with a layup.

SDSU could draw no closer, however, as USC used a flurry of free throws down the stretch to hold off a further charge and escape with the home win.

Opponent Last Time Out
Lincoln – Cameron Oluyitan's jumper with 3.5 seconds remaining proved to be the game winner, as Southern Utah escaped with a 79-78 double overtime win over the Huskers Saturday afternoon.

Oluyitan, who was one of five Thunderbirds in double figures with 11 points, found a spot the right baseline and knocked down a 15-footer to give SUU the lead for good.

Nebraska had a chance to win or second it to a third overtime, but Cam Mack's shot at the buzzer rolled off the rim, as the Huskers fell to 0-2 on the season.

Mack put the Huskers in position to win, as he recorded a double-double with 13 points and 11 assists, including finding Jervay Green for the game-tying 3-pointer at the end of regulation. Mack, one of four Huskers in double figures, also added seven boards.

Green finished with 18 points and eight rebounds, while freshman Kevin Cross came off the bench and topped the Huskers with 19 points and added five rebounds. Dachon Burke Jr. rounded out the quartet with 13 points and four boards.

Dwayne Morgan led the visitors (2-0) with 19 points and 11 rebounds, as Nebraska held SUU to 41 percent shooting and forced SUU 18 turnovers, but the Huskers shot just 37 percent and were out-rebounded 58-44.

In the first half, Nebraska used a strong defensive effort to take a 37-26 halftime lead. The Huskers held Southern Utah to 30.3 percent shooting and forced nine Thunderbird turnovers in the opening 20 minutes.

Nebraska's bench keyed a critical first-half run, scored 11 points in a 16-2 spurt that turned a 12-all tie into a 28-14 Husker advantage after a Cross jumper. Thorir Thorbjarnarson had all seven of his first-half points in the spurt, as NU held the Thunderbirds to just one field goal over nearly 8:30.

Cross came off the bench with a strong effort, scoring 11 points in the opening stanza, while Green added nine for the Huskers in the opening stanza.

Nebraska stretched the lead to 14, at 44-30, with 16:37 left following a Burke 3-pointer and a Green basket, but Southern Utah clawed back into the contest, using a 15-4 spurt to pull within 48-45 with 10:45 remaining in regulation. From there, neither team led by more than five points the final 20 minutes of the contest.

Nebraska led 64-59 after a pair of Green free throws with 4:10 left, but a 6-0 spurt gave the visitors their first lead since the opening minutes on a Dre Marin 3-pointer. Nebraska answered back, as Mack's driving layup put the Huskers up by one. Southern Utah got a break with 17 seconds left when Haanif Cheatham was called for a foul and Morgan hit both free throws to gave SUU a one-point lead. NU had a gold opportunity to regain the lead, as Mack found Green for an alley-oop, but Green was unable to handle the pass and Morgan was fouled with five seconds left. Morgan hit both free throws to give the Thunderbirds a three-point lead, only to see Green's buzzer beater send it to overtime.

-GoJacks.com-

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