Women's Basketball

[CycloneJack]

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I will get a chance to see the women play tonight in Iowa City. Hopefully we can give them a decent game. Sounds like they played CU pretty well for about 2/3 of the game.

Playing major programs is a great test and experience for the Jacks. Definitely helps them out down the road.
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[89rabbit]

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I will get a chance to see the women play tonight in Iowa City.  Hopefully we can give them a decent game.  Sounds like they played CU pretty well for about 2/3 of the game.

Playing major programs is a great test and experience for the Jacks.  Definitely helps them out down the road.

CycloneJack,

I will be looking forward to your report. It is always better to get a first hand account of how the Jacks look.

Go SDSU!

[Charger13]

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Jacks Fall To Iowa 86-72
Iowa City, IA - South Dakota State put four players in double figures but dropped an 86-72 decision to Iowa in exhibition women's basketball Thursday night at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

The Jacks fell behind early, trailed 39-26 at halftime, then cut the margin to four at 57-53 in the second half before Jennie Lillis led the way as Iowa pushed the lead back to double digits.

Shannon Schlagel led the Jacks with 17 points and 10 rebounds while Megan Vogel added 16, Brenda Davis 13 and Heather Sieler 12.

Lillis led Iowa with 24 points as she hit 10-of-15 field goal attempts. The Hawkeyes also had four players in double figures as Jamie Cavey added 19, Kristi Faulkner 18 and Lindsay Richards with 10.

Iowa out-shot SDSU 50.8 per cent (33-65) to 41.8 per cent (28-67) and the Hawkeyes had a 44-33 rebounding advantage. Faulkner and Cavey had seven rebounds each.

SDSU, 32-3 enroute to the NCAA Division II championship last year, opens the regular season Sunday, hosting Minnesota State Moorhead in a 4 p.m. game at Frost Arena.

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE (86)
Megan Vogel 7-12 2-2 16, Shannon Schlagel 8-16 0-1 17, Sarita DeBoer 1-3 0-0 2, Brenda Davis 4-15 3-4 13, Heather Sieler 4-8 3-4 12, Stacie Cizek 0-3 0-0 0, Megan Ott 0-1 1-2 1, Brooke Dickmeyer 2-6 0-0 6, Ashley Snyder 0-0 0-0 0, Christina Gilbert 2-3 1-2 5. Totals 28-67 10-15 72

IOWA (86)
Johanna Solverson 1-3 2-2 4, Jennie Lillis 10-15 3-4 24, Jamie Cavey 7-17 5-6 19, Lindsay Richards 4-6 2-3 10, Kristi Faulkner 6-10 4-5 18, Crystal Smith 1-4 0-0 2, Jenna Armstrong 0-3 0-0 0, Lindsay Geoffroy 1-1 0-0 2, Tiffany Reedy 3-4 0-0 6, Morgan Kasperek 0-0 0-0 0, Becca McCann 0-2 1-2 1. Totals 33-65 17-22 86.

Halftime: Iowa 39, SDSU 26.
FG% - SDSU .418, Iowa .508. 3-pt FG - SDSU 6-23 (Dickmeyer 2-6, Davis 2-7, Sieler 1-2, Schlagel 1-2, Vogel 0-3, Cizek 0-2, Otte 0-1), Iowa 3-9 (Faulkner 2-3, Lillis 1-1, Armstrong 0-3, Smith 0-1, Reedy 0-1). Rebounds - SDSU 33 (Schlagel 10), Iowa 44 (Cavey 7, Faulkner 7). Fouls - SDSU 23, Iowa 17. Fouled out - none. Assists - SDSU 11 (Vogel 3), Iowa 21 (Cavey 5). Steals - SDSU 15 (Schlagel 4, Sieler 4), Iowa 8 (Smith 3). Blocked Shots - SDSU 3 (Davis 2), Iowa 2 (Cavey 1, Smith 1). Turnovers - SDSU 22, Iowa 24. Attendance - 2,678.

[Texas_Jacks_Fan]

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I listened to the game on the internet, we hung in there pretty well, It was a five point game pretty late, and the Hawkeyes stretched it out when we couldnt get the late 3 pointers to fall. Both Iowa and CU are top tier D1 opponets, Our womens team is awesome, Some of the new players are really contributing. Had we been playing at home, those games would have been very even.

[CycloneJack]

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WBB report from Iowa City:

I was proud of the way the team battled the Hawkeyes. They were not intimidated at all. Of course how could you be by 1,500 fans (likely actual attendance) in a big empty bowl. We walked in an sat about 10 rows up right a center court.

This could have easily been a 6-8 point game. We had some lapses where we would turn the ball over and then give up 2 pts for a potential 4 pt swing several times. We also missed countless point-blank shots and layups that could have changed the complection of the game. They had 2 players that were really the difference in the game. Their center and Lillis were just too much. Otherwise, we easily held our own. I was extremely impressed by the freshman Megal Vogel. I could not believe that she was a freshman in only her second game.

The announcers for the Hawkeyes were impressed by SDSU based upon their post-game comments and referred to them as a good team many times.
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[89rabbit]

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Jacks kick off season with a win! Here is the Argus story:

Jacks start title defense with win over Momorhead
Chris Solari
Argus Leader

published: 11/17/2003

SDSU beats Moorhead in home opener

BROOKINGS - No banners were hung, no rings presented. Aside from a smattering of T-shirts in the crowd, there were very few reminders Sunday in Frost Arena that South Dakota State's women's basketball team won a Division II national title just a few months ago.

One thing did jog the memory - the Jackrabbits' ability to win.

SDSU opened its season with a workmanlike 86-63 victory over a plucky Minnesota State-Moorhead. The Dragons offered a healthy test for the Jacks, who return four starters and nine regulars from last year's championship club.

"I think for us, where we are right now, it's just a beginning," said SDSU coach Aaron Johnston, last year's Division II Coach of the Year. "Tonight, I saw some flashes of where we want to be, but we still have a long way to go. Playing a good team like Moorhead kind of helps remind us of that."

Indeed, the Dragons quickly helped SDSU realize it's a new season, cutting a 41-23 halftime score to just a seven-point Jackrabbit lead midway through the final period.

Much like last year's club, a few key 3-point shots and a late surge - a 16-6 spurt - pushed the edge back to almost 20 by the final two minutes.

"We came out in the first half and really played a good game, really focused," senior guard Brenda Davis, who had a game-high 22 points, said. "I thought in the second half, we let up for a little while. It was a reminder that we don't have everything figured out this year and that we still do have a long way to go."

The Jackrabbits sit atop this year's first USA Today/ESPN/WBCA Division II poll and are the preseason favorite to win the North Central Conference. Their biggest focus, though, is on ignoring the successes of the 2002-03 campaign, a magical 32-3 season which produced the school's first women's national championship and first NCAA basketball crown since the men's team won one in 1963. It's also a bridge year before the jump to Division I next fall.

"What we did in the past is in the past," said junior Shannon Schlagel, who had 17 points and a team-best 10 rebounds against the Dragons. "It was a great accomplishment, but everything we do now is what we have to do as us. ... We're very proud of what we've done, but we know we can improve."

One missing piece from last year's sat inches away from Johnston on the bench, wearing dress clothes with clipboard in hand. Melissa Pater, now a graduate assistant coach, motivated and led SDSU last year from her forward position en route to the Elite Eight MVP award.

Johnston must replace her team-best 19.5 points and 8.1 rebounds a game in the post. He also has to find a top substitute inside the paint with the graduation of Karly Hegge.

Recouping that presence in the paint might take time. Sophomore Christina Gilbert, a 6-foot-2 center, emerged last year as a strong defensive replacement who could pound away and rebound inside. Before a major knee injury sidelined her midway through 2003, 6-2 junior Sarita DeBoer had become the team's most able low-post defender.

Neither own the dominating offensive ability on the blocks yet that Pater possessed. With plenty of other offensive options, they are needed most for quality defense and rebounding inside and to allow some operating room for 6-foot forward Schlagel.

[89rabbit]

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and now the rest of the story:

I think Christina and Sarita are really going to play big roles in the year," Johnston said. "I'm sure they feel they have to replace Karly and Melissa, and really, they don't have to do that. They've got to go in and be really solid for us."

Against Moorhead, Johnston began with a four-guard lineup. Freshman Megan Vogel started alongside 5-11 Davis, 5-6 sophomore point guard Heather Sieler and 5-10 off-guard senior Stacie Cizek. Sieler scored 16 points and hit 4 of 4 shots from 3-point range Sunday.

The Jacks are guard-heavy, with a heap of quick sharpshooters who can also play quality defense and run the court coming off the bench.

Three juniors -- 5-6 Stephanie Bolden, 5-9 Brooke Dickmeyer and 5-7 Megan Otte -- have produced valuable minutes off the bench the last two seasons as SDSU reached back-to-back Elite Eights.

"I like the fact that we can play four guards at times this year, along with one post," Johnston said. "This year, we're not as physical as we've been in the past, we're not as deep at the post as we've been in the past, but we're more athletic than we've been in the past. Because of that, we're learning how to play our style a little differently with different players."

Vogel, a 5-11 native of St. Peter, Minn., provides an athletic combination of outside shooting ability and slashing cuts to the basket. An all-state pick in Minnesota last year, she finished with nine points and nine rebounds Sunday.

"She's the real deal," said Davis, who is also seeing some time at the power forward spot.

The two three-year starters, Davis and Schlagel, will attempt to build on their already stellar legacies. They'll also have to produce the type of fiery, intense leadership that Pater provided last year.

Davis is a two-time all-NCC selection who scored 15.4 points a game and topped the 1,000-point plateau last season. Schlagel provided an inside-outside compliment to Pater in the post, averaging 12.9 points and 7.9 rebounds each night.

Schlagel slides over into the center spot that Pater vacated.

"Last year, I think she gave the blocks to Melissa a lot of times, and she was really good at stretching the defenses," Johnston said of Schlagel. "But now, she's going to have to be a focus down there. ... That's a position that takes a lot of experience, and our offenses is going to get run through that position."

SDSU impressed a pair of major-conference Division I opponents in the preaseason, losing to Colorado and Iowa while gaining a heap of praise from the coaches at each school.

While those two games and a difficult non-conference schedule will help come January when NCC play starts, they won't erase the huge targets the Jackrabbits have become in the talent-laden league.

"I think the hardest thing is moving past the fact that there are so many of us back," Schlagel said. "I think we have to totally look at this as a different team. We have to do what we can do as a team."

Go State!

[CycloneJack]

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Report from USD-ISU game yesterday:

ISU hammered the cr@$ out of USD... ;D
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[Texas_Jacks_Fan]

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Cyclone,
I read the story on the game, ISU jumped out to a 31-6 lead and then coasted with their second string. Are you going to the Thanksgiving or Holiday Classics at Frost ?
Texas

[CycloneJack]

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Texas,

I would like to try and make it to one of those games. How about you?

Cyclone
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[JACKGUY]

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I saw the USD women at the Disney Classic and was not that impressed. They are too one dimensional as everything goes through Koupal.

[89rabbit]

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Here is the Brookings Register's story:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?B...=461&rfi=9


National champions set to defend title, open with Moorhead

For the South Dakota State University women's basketball team, the time to savor last season's national championship is over.

"I think so many people want to look back at last year," said Coach Aaron Johnston. "But this is a new team, with different faces. We're not trying to duplicate (last season) so much as we're trying to re-create. Even though we have four starters back, everybody has a different role."


Returning starters from last year are Heather Sieler, Stacie Cizek, Brenda Davis and Shannon Schlagel.


Missing from last year's squad are two post players, key reserve Karly Hegge and Melissa Pater, the Jacks all-time leading scorer.


Because of the loss of Pater, who will serve as graduate assistant, and Hegge, who is a fifth-year pharmacy major, Johnston thinks the team might not be quite as strong at the post this year.


"But we do have great post players back," said Johnston. "Sarita [DeBoer] will be back and healthy. (A knee injury that required surgery ended her season early last season.) Shannon [Schlagel] is back. Christina [Gilbert] is back. Ashley Snyder is coming in as a freshman. That's a great group of posts. But we don't have as much depth there as we did in the past."


Depth will not be a problem at guard.


"We probably have more depth on the perimeter than we've ever had," said Johnston. "We have all of our guards back, and we've added [freshman Megan Vogel], and we'll have a couple of walk-ons."


The returning reserve guards are three juniors: Stephanie Bolden, Megan Otte and Brooke Dickmeyer.


Bolden had more knee surgery in the spring, but Johnston expects her to enter this season as healthy as she has been since first putting on a Jacks' uniform.


Otte has had problems with stress fractures in her legs in the past, but is also healthy now.


In recent years, the team has been blessed with freshmen who made immediate impacts. The Jacks have had the North Central Conference Freshman of the Year in each of the past four years. Davis, Schlagel and Sieler have all earned the honor.


Johnston is confident that they have two more good ones this season.


Snyder is a 5-foot 11-inch post that played her high school ball for West Central. She averaged 16.8 points and 6.1 rebounds her senior year.


"She is typical of what we would look for in that position," said Johnston. "She can face the basket or post up, gets up and down the floor well and passes the ball well."


Johnston calls Vogel, who played at St. Peter High, Minn., really versatile. "She can play the two, three and maybe a little bit of four. She handles the ball really well. She can rebound, and she's a good three-point shooter."


In the Jacks' exhibition contest against Division I power the University of Colorado, Vogel led the way in scoring with 21 points.


"Megan having a good game in her opening college experience against Colorado is a good indication of a lot of good things to come from her," said Johnston.


The Jacks hung with CU through most of the game before falling 82-66.


"I thought we shot the ball really well," said Johnston of his team's performance against the 20th-ranked team in the nation. "That will be one our strengths. We shot the ball extremely well from the three-point line. We do need to do a much better job of getting an inside game. Shannon got in foul trouble, so she was out of the game most of it. And the rest of our post players didn't have enough of a presence down there. A lot of that had to do with CU's defense. They had a 6-5 All-American center."


This season the Jacks will once again look to push the ball up the court and play aggressive defense. As always, they will crash the boards.


"I know so many of our players worked hard throughout the summer to get better," said Johnston. "And all the experience that they bring back to our team is really going to help us."


Johnston promises Jacks' fans that, "This is really going to be a fun team to watch."

[filbert]

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73-58, SDSU beats Northern Kentucky yet again, wins the Holiday Isle Tournament. Almost a shame we're leaving D-II...we might have had a pretty good inter-regional rivalry staring with NKU.

[SDSU_TUBA]

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Jacks Set Scoring Record At Turkey Day Shootout
KINGSVILLE, TX - South Dakota State set a school single-game scoring record with a 119-45 victory over Texas A&M-International on the opening day of the Turkey Day Shootout Thursday.

That broke the SDSU mark of 115 points set against Northern Colorado in 2001 while the margin of victory was two shy of the Jackrabbit record, set against Southwest Minnesota in 1969 ( 94-18 ) points.

SDSU also set a record for field goals, with 46, breaking the previous mark of 44 set against Morningside in 2000.

The Jacks took an early 16-3 lead and never looked back, building a 56-14 halftime margin. It was 94-25 at the ten-minute mark of the second half.

Playing without all-NCC Brenda Davis, sidelined by a knee injury suffered against Northern Kentucky in the Holiday Isle tournament last week, all 11 players suited for the game scored with seven in double figures. Sarita DeBoer and Shannon Schlagel each recorded a double-double with DeBoer getting 18 points and 12 rebounds while Schlagel had 17 points and 11 rebounds.

Christina Gilbert added 16 points and nine rebounds while Megan Ott hit 4-for-4 on three-point attempts and scored 15, Stacie Cizek and Megan Vogel added 12 points each, and Brooke Dickmeyer scored 11.

SDSU shot 59.7 per cent (46x77) from the field while the Dustdevils hit just 22 per cent (16x71). And SDSU had a 65-32 rebounding advantage.

SDSU is now 4-0 for the season and will face Incarnate Word in the 1 p.m. game Friday. Texas A&M-International, in its first year of competition, is now 0-6.

[JACKGUY]

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Great weekend for the Jack women. When is Brenda Davis expected back from her knee injury? North Dakota seems to be SDSU biggest threat as they are playing well in non-conference schedule.