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Denver The Pioneers are starting to put together what is looking like their best season in quite some time. There is of course a lot of season left to play this season but this is a critical weekend for the Pioneers. Are they a top 3 team in the Summit League? A sweep this week…
Guard Tommy Bruner Denver When you are the scoring leader for all of NCAA basketball it should be no surprise when you win your 4th Senior of the Week award. Bruner continues to put up impressive numbers week in and week out. For the week Bruner averaged an eye-popping 30 points per game. He also…
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Senior of the Week Guard Tommy Bruner Denver For the third time this season Tommy Bruner is named the Reaching the Summit Senior of the Week, and it is well deserved. Bruner continues an incredible campaign here in week 7. Bruner finished the week averaging 28.5 points per game and scoring isn’t the only way…
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Senior of the Week Guard Kareem Thompson Oral Roberts Not only did Thompson put up big numbers, but Thompson did so against two high-quality opponents Texas Tech and Oklahoma State. While the Golden Eagles weren’t able to secure a victory, that wasn’t due to the high-quality play of Thompson. For the week Thompson averaged 14.5…
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Senior of the Week Guard Tommy Bruner Denver As the season’s first month is drawing to a close, we get a chance to reflect on the incredible start to the season Tommy Bruner has had. In fact, it’s hard to envision a better start for the Denver guard. All he’s done so far is lead…
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Senior of the Week Forward Lahat Thioune South Dakota Not a bad way to break onto the scene in the Summit League. In his first week as a South Dakota Coyote Thioune wins the Senior of the Week award. For good reason too! After only playing 17 minutes against a non division 1 team, in…
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Kansas City was the second history-making team in Sioux Falls today, as Head Coach Dionnah Jackson-Durrett snagged her first Summit League Tournament win. The Roos were battling from behind from tip-off to the 3:00 minute mark of the fourth quarter, when they took a one-point lead over the Denver Pioneers. Manna Mensah netted 30 points…
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It’s preview time!! Let’s Start right off the bat with my Predicted order of finish. Then I will preview the teams in that order Oral Roberts: 13-5 Conference record. No one runs away with it this year. The Golden Eagles finish at the top of a 3 or maybe 4-team fight to the top. The…
The Reaching the Summit Voters have cast their ballots and it’s time to share their votes. There will not be any real narrative on the selections today. I will post my picks on each category with reasoning tomorrow. Since this is a consensus of the voters the narrative will be brief and instead just discuss…
Note: This does not include games played on 2/7 or 2/8 they will be included on next week’s players of the week. Senior of the week .Guard Evan Gilyard Kansas City For the 2nd time in 3 weeks, Gilyard is our senior of the week. The transfer guard has gotten hot at just the right…
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