Early look at South Dakota state
Over the last 14 years they have been to the NCAA Tournament 10 times. Of The four times they missed, once to Covid, twice they were regular season champs and lost in their conference finals. They have a winning system and a culture
They are more talented than you think. Tough D and efficient O and rebound very well.What they don’t have is Aliyah or Kamilla, But 6 footers all over the court.
This could be a blowout but I don’t think so. They have beaten ranked teams Louisville and Kansas state. Also Miss. St. and Rutgers. They played ranked Creighton and UCLA within 10 points. Our size but not our talent will an adjustment for them. Selland, Timmer, and Burckhard all average double digit points and are 6’0”.
Overall they are a good shooting team but shoot the 3 poorly. A very puzzling stat is that they only have 115 turnovers in 10 games, 11.5 per game. An excellent number BUT 84 of those turnovers WERE STEALS! I expect at lot of on ball pressure and a pressing D at times.
Honestly this could be a 40 point victory or a 10 point game in which they doggedly stick around. Depends on our D and if they can find new and weird ways to stymie our bigs