USD women’s basketball team ready to take on Stanford
The story is set. Plot: University of South Dakota women’s basketball will appear in its first NCAA Tournament Saturday. Setting: Ames, Iowa. Opponent: No. 2 seed Stanford Cardinal. It’s onto tipoff. The backstory, like how USD has never had a Division I representative in the tourney or how the USD women dethroned their biggest rival […]
South Dakota vying for NCCA Tournament berth against Denver
One win. That’s what separates the University of South Dakota women’s basketball team from their first appearance in the NCAA tournament. The Coyote women needed a day of dramatics and a day of revenge to be on the verge of their chance at one shining March Madness moment, and the only thing standing in the […]
Provost candidates to be selected by early May
The search for the University of South Dakota’s new provost is in full swing and moving toward selecting preliminary candidates by early May, said Mary Nettleman, provost search committee chair. Nettleman said the committee has begun reviewing applications, but no selections have been made for preliminary interviews or on-campus interviews. The plan is to host […]
“Onward” set for public launch
The University of South Dakota Foundation’s capital campaign, “Onward South Dakota,” has raised just under $95 million to date, said Foundation President Steve Brown. Brown said the Foundation and USD administration have scheduled a public launch event for the campaign Oct. 10, 2014 — the Friday of Dakota Days. During the event, it the campaign’s fundraising success […]
UPDATED: USD women squeeze out Summit League win with 1.1 seconds to go, will play SDSU Monday at noon
An 11-0 lead to start the game. A leading scorer with 35 points. Fifty-two points in the paint. It looked to be Western Illinois’ day. But the University of South Dakota’s Raeshel Contreras cashed a deep three with 1.1 seconds left to give the Coyotes a 96-94 win, catapulting her team to Monday’s Summit League […]
UPDATED: USD men’s basketball Summit League run ends against Denver, 71-55
The University of South Dakota men’s basketball team didn’t look like the January version of themselves Sunday night when they were handed defeat by the Denver Pioneers, 71-55. PHOTO GALLERY For the second consecutive season, the Coyotes were dropped from the Summit League Tournament in the first round. This time, the result came at the […]
CAB signs Timeflies
Tuesday night, Campus Activity Board announced it will be bringing the duo Timeflies to the University of South Dakota, and the question still remains where the concert will be held. “It’s going to be a large concert,” Taylor Moore, CAB president, said. “We are still working on a venue, but it will be a concert […]
South Dakota has the ‘it factor’ in government
Although I grew up in the state capital, the South Dakota Legislative session really didn’t mean a whole lot to me. I certainly wasn’t concerned with gay rights laws, South Dakota’s fiscal state, or affairs of legislators. The two months of session in Pierre really meant two things to me: getting closer to spring and […]
South Dakota has the ‘it factor’ in government
Although I grew up in the state capital, the South Dakota Legislative session really didn’t mean a whole lot to me. I certainly wasn’t concerned with gay rights laws, South Dakota’s fiscal state, or affairs of legislators. The two months of session in Pierre really meant two things to me: getting closer to spring and […]
“There has been…
“There has been a gap in the access to the administrative rules process.” -Dusty Johnson, S.D. Chief of Staff In front of a room full of journalists from across South Dakota, the state Governor’s Chief of Staff Dusty Johnson credited the work of the state’s media for their work in helping the state improve in […]