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A season to remember
SDSU women's basketball campaign filled with milestones, surprising results
By Terry Vandrovec
tvandrovec@argusleader.com
Published: March 29, 2007
So much for the natural order of NCAA Division I athletics.
In only its third season out of Division II, the South Dakota State women's basketball team established itself - according to virtually every computer ranking - as one of the top 50 in Division I, beating programs with big names and bigger budgets and forcing a wholesale reassessment: When the Jackrabbits beat Colorado or Kansas or Alabama, should that be considered an upset anymore?
From a season-opening victory at Middle Tennessee State, ranked No. 17 in the final Associated Press poll, to an appearance in the WNIT quarterfinals, the accomplishments piled up so steadily that they were perhaps lost in the successful shuttle - until being brought to light by outsiders.
Illinois State and then Indiana, two established programs from state schools, one from the chic Missouri Valley Conference and the other from the Big Ten, both invited to the postseason, raved about the Jacks' success and support during WNIT games at Frost Arena. This is what we want to achieve, their coaches said. . . . (read more)
Go State!
A season to remember
SDSU women's basketball campaign filled with milestones, surprising results
By Terry Vandrovec
tvandrovec@argusleader.com
Published: March 29, 2007
So much for the natural order of NCAA Division I athletics.
In only its third season out of Division II, the South Dakota State women's basketball team established itself - according to virtually every computer ranking - as one of the top 50 in Division I, beating programs with big names and bigger budgets and forcing a wholesale reassessment: When the Jackrabbits beat Colorado or Kansas or Alabama, should that be considered an upset anymore?
From a season-opening victory at Middle Tennessee State, ranked No. 17 in the final Associated Press poll, to an appearance in the WNIT quarterfinals, the accomplishments piled up so steadily that they were perhaps lost in the successful shuttle - until being brought to light by outsiders.
Illinois State and then Indiana, two established programs from state schools, one from the chic Missouri Valley Conference and the other from the Big Ten, both invited to the postseason, raved about the Jacks' success and support during WNIT games at Frost Arena. This is what we want to achieve, their coaches said. . . . (read more)
Go State!