April 20th, 202036 The Coyote mens basketball team’s 2019-20 season ended not how they had hoped — losing in the first round of the Summit League Tournament and missing out on an opportunity to play in a postseason tournament. Senior Triston Simpson finished up his four-year career with the Coyotes this season. Simpson said the team had goals...
March 11th, 2020132 UPDATE 3:50 p.m. Thursday: The NCAA has announced its cancellation of all remaining winter and spring championships, including the mens and womens basketball tournaments due to growing concerns over the coronavirus. The cancellation means the No. 17/11 Coyotes womens basketball season is officially over. The Coyotes earned the...
March 9th, 202072 The Coyotes men's basketball team led by 11 points in the second half, but went cold for the last five minutes to drop their quarterfinal game of the Summit League tournament to North Dakota 74-71 Sunday night. The Coyotes fell behind early after a rough start shooting the ball. UND led by 14 with 13 minutes left in the first half. ...
March 3rd, 2020106 Dawn Plitzuweit and her kids, A.J. and Lexi Plitzuweit all have a role to play in the basketball scene in Vermillion. Head women's' basketball coach Dawn Plitzuweit is in her fourth season at USD, winning over 20 games each season and two undefeated Summit League seasons. The Coyotes made the NCAA Tournament last season...
March 3rd, 202060The South Dakota men’s basketball team secured the No. 3 spot in the Summit League Tournament, beating North Dakota 77-67 on senior day inside the Sanford Coyote Sports Center. The Coyotes (20-11, 10-6), were tied to the Fighting Hawks 39-39 at the half. After the break USD was able to gain a lead after a 6-0 run two minutes into the...
March 1st, 202031 In his first season at the helm, USD men’s basketball head
coach Todd Lee led his team to a 13-17 overall record, a six seed in the Summit
League tournament and a first-round exit at the hands of Purdue Fort Wayne. Now, a year later, Lee has led the Coyotes to a 20-11 record, a third seed in the Summit League tournament and a date...
February 28th, 202023Triston Simpson's senior campaign started out rocky. Being forced to miss the majority of the nonconference season due to a knee injury created trouble for the Coyotes. But since his first game back in late December, Simpson has been a leader on the court. The four year player for the Coyotes has accumulated 91 points from the...
February 28th, 202048 The men’s basketball team welcomed three newly-recruited international players this season. Joining Australian sophomore forward Matt Johns and Serbian redshirt freshman Simeon Jovic are freshmen Hunter Goodrick from Australia, Kruz Perrot-Hunt from New Zealand and Tasos Kamateros from Greece. Brad Davidson, USD’s talent...
February 19th, 202027 In a battle between two of the Summit League’s best, the Coyotes (19-10, 9-5 CONF) fell short to North Dakota State University (20-7, 11-2 CONF) on Wednesday in the Sanford Coyote Sports Center. NDSU and USD came into the game ranked second and third
respectively in the Summit League standings, both trailing South Dakota State....
February 6th, 202053 The Coyote women's basketball team has their highest ranking ever — 21 AP/17 coaches poll — the second ever at-large bid for the Summit League in 2019 and over 100 wins under head coach Dawn Plitzuweit; how have the Coyote women achieved these? Plitzuweit said the building of the team's success starts with three main elements....
