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Here are our first installments of the Reaching the Summit Players of the Week. Our voters give you their senior, junior, sophomore, freshman, and defensive player of the week. So here they are: Senior of the Week: Forward Rocky Kreuser, North Dakota State Kreuser led the charge for the Bison in a 2 win week. The…
The Power rankings are released every week on Sundays. Each voter ranks the Summit League teams 1-10 and the votes are tallied and the results posted here. So on to the rankings. 1. South Dakota State: 136 Points (10) First Place votes 2. North Dakota State: 130 (4) 3. Oral Roberts: 107…
UND battled shorthanded but fell against Weber. After returning home for a few days, they then hit the road again to head down south to Texas, to take on UTEP. While UND was able to get a couple more players back, they still were without 3 of their starters. A rough first quarter doomed UND…
After a rough exhibition game against Mayville, UND was looking to turn the page against a Milwaukee squad that was getting lots of hype because of the addition of 5 star recruit Patrick Baldwin Jr. While UND fell 75-60 in the opening game, there were some good things to take away from it 1st Half:…
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We had actual basketball games to talk about!! We won’t be able to do this every week, but we felt it was important to talk the first week of every Summit League Team. We talked about the best win of the opening week, teams that surprised and disappointed, and newcomers that impressed. Some we praise,…
The Jackrabbit women’s basketball team got off to an interesting start this season. The Jacks went 1-1 but they probably feel like they should be 2-0. SDSU beating a young Green Bay team (70-49) handedly was a good sign, while losing to a Mississippi State team (71-76) that they could have beat felt like a…
Read More “New Faces for the South Dakota State Women Have Strong Debuts” »
The South Dakota State men’s basketball team started their season with wins over Bradley (81-65) and Stephen F Austin (83-71), while losing to number 14 Alabama (88-107). We learned a lot about the team in three games including many positives and a couple things to keep your eyes on for the rest of the season. …
Read More “South Dakota State Men Start the Season Strong” »
(OMAHA, NE)—Transitioning from year-to-year can be a daunting challenge for many coaches across college basketball. Add in the revolving door of the exponentially expanding transfer portal and it creates even more hurdles for coaches in the offseason. Programs have had to adapt to this shift in recruiting and internal maintenance, but some teams just have…
Read More “Short-handed Mavs fight back from 29 points down, comeback falls short at Ball State” »
Last season was one of the more difficult seasons in UND women’s basketball history. Close losses, injuries, and COVID all reared their ugly heads last season in a difficult 2-19 season. So hope springs eternal as UND was looking to put the past behind them and start Year 2 of the Bernhard Era. I was…
Read More “Short-handed UND women falls to Weber State In Season Opener” »
NDSU was locked in from the get go in this one, bolted out a 13-0 lead and never looked back. The first 5 minutes of this game it looked like Concordia may never score, the Bison just smothered the Cobbers on the defensive end and I could be wrong but I don’t recall a shot…
Read More “Bison Stampede Over Concordia in Season Opener, 88-44” »