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Maybe you were sitting at home on Sunday thinking that you really enjoy Summit League basketball and would love to watch more of it. The dilemma you had is you have a life and don’t have time to watch all this basketball. Well with a mixture of excitement over the fact that I did have…
1. South Dakota State: 116. (12) LW 1. The Jacks were idle but remain on top. 2. South Dakota: 103 pts (1) LW 3. South Dakota remains undefeated after sweeping Omaha and climbs to their highest spot on the season. They also are the first team to steal a first-place vote from the Jackrabbits. 3. North…
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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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1. Adam Anhold, Western Illinois: 8 games into Anhold’s Western Illinois career he had scored 0 points and had logged 5 minutes on the court. Then yesterday happened. Anhold had an impressive 16 points and 9 rebounds in 22 minutes against South Dakota State yesterday. Anhold is likely to see more and more opportunities as a…
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Senior of the week: Stanley Umude; South Dakota. Umude had a big weekend as the Coyotes opened Summit League play with a sweep of Denver. In Sunday’s 79-57 win, Umude recorded a double-double for South Dakota, scoring a team-high 27 points while grabbing another team-high, 11 rebounds. Umude was hot from the field, going 10-14…
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: 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…
Omaha has played a real gauntlet of opponents in the past couple of weeks. Playing at Kansas, Drake, Creighton, and Colorado. Omaha played last night in Colorado and then was in action tonight in Wyoming. So it seemed Omaha might be primed to come out without energy and the opposite happened. Although Omaha could never…
We have all seen Player of the week awards before. Our staff at Reaching The Summit wanted to do something similar but put our own spin on it. So here are our first player of the week awards, with a twist. We are going to break the players of the week down by class. So…
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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…