The Summit League UPDATE 2019-20 Men’S Basketball Notebook: Vol
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The Summit League UPDATE 2019-20 MEn’s Basketball notebook: Vol. 8 (DEC. 27) Men’s Basketball Standings (2019-20) Summit League Games All Games W-L PCT H A Strk PF PA W-L PCT H A N Strk L10 PF PA South Dakota 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 - 0.0 0.0 9-5 .643 5-1 2-3 2-1 L2 5-5 76.4 72.7 North Dakota State 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 - 0.0 0.0 8-5 .615 4-1 3-3 1-1 L1 6-4 69.2 64.2 Communications South Dakota State 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 - 0.0 0.0 9-6 .600 8-0 1-6 0-0 W3 6-4 74.3 68.9 Ryan Powell, Assistant Commissioner Oral Roberts 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 - 0.0 0.0 7-5 .583 6-0 1-5 0-0 W4 6-4 78.8 67.5 [email protected] Omaha 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 - 0.0 0.0 7-8 .467 6-0 1-8 0-0 W1 5-5 71.3 75.6 www.thesummitleague.org Purdue Fort Wayne 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 - 0.0 0.0 7-8 .467 6-1 1-7 0-0 L2 5-5 70.5 68.8 Phone: 605-777-2664 North Dakota 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 - 0.0 0.0 6-7 .462 3-0 2-6 1-1 W2 5-5 77.2 71.4 Western Illinois 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 - 0.0 0.0 3-7 .300 2-4 1-3 0-0 W1 3-7 78.5 79.0 Ahead In The Summit League Denver 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 - 0.0 0.0 4-10 .286 3-3 0-6 1-1 L5 2-8 63.9 72.7 Games through Monday, Dec. 22 Saturday, December 28 Oral Roberts at Brigham Young (BYUTV) 8:00 PM Players of the Week NET Rankings (Dec. 23) November 11 113. Oral Roberts Sunday, December 29 Douglas Wilson, South Dakota State 132. South Dakota South Dakota at Western Illinois* 4:30 PM November 18 173. North Dakota State SDSU at Omaha* (YurView/MSN/E+) 4:30 PM Tyler Hagedorn, South Dakota 177. Omaha NDSU at Denver* (ALT2) 4:30 PM November 25 194. South Dakota State North Dakota at Oregon State (Pac-12) 5:00 PM J.T. Gibson, Omaha 213. North Dakota December 2 270. Purdue Fort Wayne Wednesday, January 1 Jarred Godfrey, Purdue Fort Wayne 300. Western Illinois South Dakota at Purdue Fort Wayne* 2:00 PM December 9 309. Denver Rocky Kreuser, North Dakota State Thursday, January 2 December 16 Preseason All-League Teams Western Illinois at NDSU* (MSN/E+) 7:00 PM Vinnie Shahid, North Dakota State First Team (2018-19 stats) North Dakota at Denver* (ALT2) 8:00 PM December 23 Emmanuel Nzekwesi, Oral Roberts, Sr., F Oral Roberts at SDSU* (MSN2/E+) 8:15 PM Marlon Stewart, North Dakota (14.8 ppg/8.5 rpg/1.2 apg) December 30 Kevin Obanor, Oral Roberts, So., F Saturday, January 4 (14.4 ppg/7.2 rpg/0.5 apg) Western Illinois at SDSU* (MSN/E3) 4:15 PM January 6 Vinnie Shahid, North Dakota State, Sr., G Oral Roberts at Omaha* 7:00 PM (13.1 ppg/3.0 rpg/2.6 apg) January 13 Triston Simpson, South Dakota, Sr., G Sunday, January 5 January 20 (14.0 ppg/3.7 rpg/3.6 apg) Denver at South Dakota* 3:30 PM Stanley Umude, South Dakota, Jr., F* Purdue Fort Wayne at North Dakota* (MSN/E+) 4:30 PM January 27 (14.4 ppg/5.5 rpg/1.4 apg) All times local to site Kobe Webster, Western Illinois, Jr., G February 3 (17.0 ppg/4.4 rpg/3.1 apg) *Preseason Player of the Year automatically 2019-20 Preason Poll February 10 earns a spot on fi rst team 1. North Dakota State (23) 526 2. South Dakota (6) 457 February 17 Second Team (2018-19 stats) 3. Oral Roberts (3) 404 Tyler Hagedorn, South Dakota, Sr., F 4. Omaha 369 February 24 (13.0 ppg/5.9 rpg/1.1 apg)# 5. South Dakota State (2) 300 JT Gibson, Omaha, Sr., G 6. Purdue Fort Wayne 224 March 2 (12.9 ppg/2.8 rpg/2.1 apg) 7. Western Illinois 188 8. North Dakota 164 Matt Holba, Purdue Fort Wayne, Sr., F 9. Denver 113 (11.7 ppg/4.2 rpg/1.2 apg) Matt Pile, Omaha, Jr., F (11.2 ppg/7.9 rpg/1.2 apg) The Summit League On The Web | Twitter | SID Contacts Tyson Ward, North Dakota State, Sr., F SL ...................thesummitleague.org ......@summithoops .........Ryan Powell ([email protected]) (12.4 ppg/6.2 rpg/2.3 apg) DU .................denverpioneers.com ........ @DU_MHoops ...........Chris Smith ([email protected]) #Hagedorn’s stats are from 2017-18 season UND ..............fi ghtinghawks.com ...........@UNDMbasketball ...Alec Johnson ([email protected]) NDSU ............gobison.com ....................... @NDSUmbb ................Wes Off erman (wes.off [email protected]) UNO ..............omavs.com .......................... @OmahaMBB .............Bonnie Ryan ([email protected]) ORU...............oruathletics.com ................@ORUMBB ...................Scott Slarks ([email protected]) Purdue-FW ..gomastodons.com [email protected] Sloboda ([email protected]) USD ...............goyotes.com........................ @SDCoyotesMBB ......Currie McFayden ([email protected]) SDSU ............gojacks.com ........................ @GoJacksMBB ............Andrew Sogn ([email protected]) WIU ...............goleathernecks.com ......... @WIUMensHoops .....Monyae Williamson ([email protected]) MMARCHARCH 77-10,-10, 22020020 @@summithoopssummithoops TTHESUMMITLEAGUE.ORGHESUMMITLEAGUE.ORG @@thesummitleaguethesummitleague ##SUMMITMBBSUMMITMBB SSUMMITUMMIT LLEAGUEEAGUE MMEN’SEN’S BBASKETBALLASKETBALL The Summit League/WAC Challenge: Year Two Horizon-Summit Showdown Coming in ‘20 SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Oral Roberts secured the 2019-20 edition of The Horizon League Commissioner Summit League/WAC Challenge series thanks to a 97-59 victory at Jon LeCrone and Summit Chicago State Tuesday in the Windy City. The Golden Eagles exacted League Commissioner Tom revenge for the league after the WAC won six of nine contests in the Douple jointly announced fi rst year of the series. last March that their league members will begin a men’s A year after going 0-4 in road games, Summit League members went basketball “Showdown” series 4-1 in road contests. In fact, the only home teams to pick up wins were in 2020 that will span three Kansas City (a future Summit League member) and Omaha. The Mav- seasons. ericks’ victory ended up being a crucial one as their 92-82 win over UTRGV on Dec. 15 gave The Summit League a slight 4-3 edge before ORU capped the series’ victory with the largest margin League officials will work together to ensure the best of victory in the 17 combined contests over the past two seasons. possible hardwood matchups for the Horizon League‐ Summit League Showdown based on three criteria: There were only two other tilts decided by double fi gures as close contests was the theme, projected team rankings, a 3‐year RPI/NET average, especially early on. South Dakota State opened the series with a 93-91 double-overtime victory and the latest Ken Pom Adjusted Efficiency Rating. against CSU Bakersfi eld and two other matchups were decided by a single point. Cal Baptist, who won last year’s meeting with Oral Roberts on a halfcourt-heave at the buzzer, fell to South Each of those factors will be weighted equally, and Dakota 84-83 on its home court this time around. The Roos, who are in their fi nal season as a starting in June of 2020, they will be used to determine WAC member, used a pair of late free throws in the closing fi ve seconds to edge Western Illinois the first set of games for the series that will be played 68-67. on pre‐selected dates. A similar process and timeline will be followed in 2021 and 2022. The complete list of results for the 2018-19 schedule are below: Nov. 6 | South Dakota State 79, Grand Canyon 74 Each member of the Horizon League and The Summit Nov. 6 | NM State 73, North Dakota State 56 League will have a home and an away game against Nov. 13 | California Baptist 70, Oral Roberts 69 two different programs from the other league in each Dec. 1 | Kansas City 90, Purdue Fort Wayne 73 of those three seasons. The Summit League will find Dec. 1 | South Dakota 68, CSU Bakersfi eld 56 a school outside of its membership to be the 10th Dec. 1 | Utah Valley 98, Denver 75 opponent for the Horizon League. Dec. 5 | UT Rio Grande Valley 70, North Dakota 56 Dec. 6 | SeattleU 90, Omaha 71 “We are excited to partner with the Horizon League on Dec. 20 | Western Illinois 81, Chicago State 52 this scheduling alliance,” said Douple. “We’ve listened to our coaches and their desires to build competitive The matchups for the 2019-20 schedule are below: and equitable schedules for the betterment of our Nov. 9 | South Dakota State 93, CSU Bakersfi eld 91 (2OT) league and their programs. This agreement ensures Nov. 23 | Utah Valley 68, North Dakota State 62 them of at least two games a season that fit that Nov. 27 | South Dakota 84, California Baptist 83 criteria.” Nov. 30 | Purdue Fort Wayne 71, Grand Canyon 60 Nov. 30 | Kansas City 68, Western Illinois 67 Games will take place in 2020 on November 17th and Dec. 10 | New Mexico State 72, Denver 67 21st. In 2021, the dates for the series are November Dec.