South Dakota State University men’s basketball coach T.J. Otzelberger will be the new coach at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. UNLV announced the hire on Wednesday afternoon. Otzelberger, who just completed his third year as SDSU’s coach, took SDSU to two NCAA Tournaments and a NIT in three seasons. Otzelberger, 41, was 70-33 in three …
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Mar 27
Local Sports for Wednesday March 27th
Spring weather and field conditions have forced the Dakota Wesleyan University baseball and softball teams to change their schedules this week. The Tiger baseball team will host Presentation College at 4:00pm today on Drake Field in a nine-inning game and will see how that goes. The Tigers were originally slated to travel to Jamestown for …
Mar 26
Local Sports for Tuesday March 26th
The South Dakota State women’s basketball team advances to the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 for the first time in program history following a 75-64-win last night over No. 12 Syracuse in the Carrier Dome before 2,474 fans. The No. 6-seeded Jackrabbits, who have now won 18-straight games, will play No. 2 seed Oregon Friday in …
Mar 21
Local Sports for Thursday March 21st
The Class A All-State Girls Basketball teams have been announced and one area player made it on the 3rd team as a Sophomore. Madison Koepsell of McCook Central/Montrose was named to the 3rd Team Class A All-State. The Fighting Cougars placed 4th after being seeded 6th at the State A Tourney last weekend. The Class …
Mar 20
Local Sports for Wednesday March 20th
The SDSU Jackrabbit men’s basketball team staged a brilliant comeback, but saw its season come to an end last night in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament, falling 79-73 to Texas at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin Texas. South Dakota State concludes the year at 24-9, reaching the 20-win plateau for the …
Mar 05
Local Sports for Tuesday March 5th
With the blowing snow across the state yesterday and last night and some places worse than others, the SDHSAA postponed all SoDak 16 girl’s games yesterday and moved them to Thursday same time and same locations. Top seed West Central (21-0) faces No. 16 Crow Creek (13-8) at 6:00pm at the Corn Palace followed by …
Feb 26
Local Sports for Tuesday February 26th
For the second time this season and 11th time in her career, South Dakota State women’s basketball student-athlete and Mitchell native Macy Miller was named The Summit League Player of the Week. The senior guard averaged a team-leading 20.0 points, 6.5 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game while shooting 55.0 percent from the field and …
Feb 25
Local Sports for Monday February 25th
The Mitchell Kernel wrestling team fell a little short of their team goals at the State Tourney as they wanted to finish in the Top Six. Mitchell finished in 9th place with 79 points after being in 6th place after day one in Rapid City. Mitchell did get two wrestlers to the finals only to …
Feb 21
Local Sports for Thursday February 21st
In a game that saw 29 combined steals, the #4 ranked in NAIA Dakota Wesleyan University women’s basketball team prevailed against #19 ranked in NAIA Morningside College, 88-75 in the GPAC Quarterfinals last night at the Corn Palace. The Tiger women improved to 27-4 overall with the win. What a night by junior Sarah Carr, …
Feb 19
Local Sports for Tuesday February 19th
The post season is here, and the Mitchell Christian Golden Eagles girls’ basketball team are off to a great defensive start. Last night in Region 4B action Mitchell Christian beat Elkton/Lake Benton 36-23 and Anna Cooper almost outscored the Elks by herself by scoring a game-high 21 points to help the Golden Eagles advance. Cooper …