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1. South Dakota State: 99. (11) LW 1. The Jacks sweep UND and remain on top 2. North Dakota State: 86pts. LW 2. NDSU sweeps Denver and stays in 2nd 3. South Dakota: 77pts. LW 4. Yotes remain undefeated in Conference. Voters move them up 4. Oral Roberts : 67pts LW 3. ORU’s splits with…
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Player of the Year (well half year) Kevin Obanor, Sr, Oral Roberts Obanor, the junior from Houston Texas had plenty of deserving competition for this award. However the more a person digs into the statistics the better you feel about him edging out the strong competition in the Summit League. Oral Roberts is 5-1 in…
Coming off an up-and-down weekend at Home against North Dakota, splitting the Series with the Fighting Hawks, the Golden Eagles would look to have a crisper weekend offensively on the road versus last place Denver. On paper the match-up against the Pioneers would appear to be easy pickings and a clean sweep, however, ORU had…
Senior: Rocky Kreuser has consistently been one of the best seniors in the Summit League this season, and this weekend was no exception. This was especially true in the second game as the senior big man put up monster numbers in a tough overtime loss to rival North Dakota. Kreuser put up 32 points and 10…
There were four teams that opened Summit League play with a loss today. None of them want to start conference play 0-2. I am going to discuss 4 players that hold the biggest key to their team avoiding that 0-2 start. Will Carius Western Illinois: The Senior forward picked up 2 fouls before I could get…
Senior of the week: This week’s senior of the week goes to the player who also took home the Summit League Player of the Week award in Rocky Kreuser. The stretch 5 from NDSU had an incredibly efficient day going 7-8 from the floor including a perfect 4-4 from 3-point land in route to scoring…
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Senior of the week: Western Illinois Will Carius. The grad student forward from Bettendorf Iowa put in season-high totals in points (18) & in minutes(33) in the Leathernecks lone game of the week which was a 81-63 victory vs UT-Martin. To date, Carius is averaging 11.3 ppg and 6.3 rpg. He also has added 7…
Senior of the week: Stanley Umude had a phenomenal three days at the Dakota Showcase in Sioux Falls, S.D., over the weekend. The Univesity of South Dakota senior averaged 28.3 points per game including a career-high 41 points against rival South Dakota State on Saturday. Umude’s 41 points tied Iowa’s Luke Garza for the most…
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The Denver University Men’s basketball teams 2020-21 journey started with a detour. A covid pause caused the team to put practice on hold and cancel their first game, add in another postponement against Air Force and I am sure it is not the start Coach Rodney Billups envisioned for the team. As the team looked…
Men’s Power Rankings 1. South Dakota State (3-2): 90 pts (10) 1st place votes. 2 wins against Iowa State and Bradley keep SDSU as the unanimous first-place team 2. North Dakota State(0-4): 78 pts, LW 2. 0-4 and gained points from last week. A close loss to Kansas will do that 3. Oral Roberts: 69…