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As a Minnesota Vikings fan, I know all about long waits on seeing team success. I often tell myself that it will feel that much better when they finally win a Super Bowl. Well it has been 13 years since Oral Roberts fans felt the way they do tonight. I often wonder if the delay…
One year ago tomorrow, the North Dakota State Bison were on the court at the Summit League Tournament celebrating a birth to the NCAA Tournament, looking forward to finding out who they would be playing on selection Sunday. That like much of life over the last year was disrupted by Covid. So the Bison were…
10 years ago today, March 8th, 2011. Oral Roberts took on Oakland in the Summit League Tournament final. Oakland won the game 90-76, advancing to the NCAA tournament. This was also the last time that Oral Roberts was in the Summit League Championship game. It also marked the last time that a team not named…
North Dakota State looked like they were going to cruise second half against Kansas City. Rocky Kreuser had just completed a special first half and the Bison lead ballooned to 16 at the break. The Bison increased that lead to as much as 22 after a Grant Nelson dunk with 14:15 remaining. Even those of…
Many times on the podcast we have sounded like a broken record when it comes to Oral Roberts Men’s Basketball team. I suppose that’s not a good thing for a podcast but here we are. The broken part of the record was us saying “if they consistently defend”. Basically saying that the Golden Eagles won’t…
In their last game, South Dakota came out against North Dakota State and played inspired basketball for a half in their first game without AJ Plitzuweit. Then they fell behind and got buried by the Bison. This led a certain Reaching the Summit Writer to pick them to lose in the opening round to Western…
It was a bit of a slow start for South Dakota State on Saturday night in their opening-round game against Omaha. The Mavericks were making outside shots and the Jackrabbits couldn’t pull away. Midway through the first half Omaha actually held a lead a couple of times. Then Douglas Wilson took over. There was no…
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Player of the Year There are many deserving candidates for player of the year in the Summit League this year too. Nothing highlights this better than the fact that five players received votes for player of the year from our voters. These players included South Dakota’s Stanley Umude and AJ Plitzuweit, Oral Roberts’ Max Abmas…
Senior: Tylee Irwin of South Dakota State captures the Senior of the week this week. Irwin paced the Jackrabbits at a time they needed her most as the injury bug struck the team. Irwin averaged 28 points per game and added 3.5 rebounds per game over the weekend. Irwin will be counted on even more for…
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Senior: Matt Pile of Omaha is this week’s senior of the week. Almost want to give it to him regardless of his numbers over the week. The senior whose team is on the verge of being eliminated from the Summit League tournament just doesn’t want his season to end. While Omaha is down to 6 scholarship…