Men’s Basketball

As an assistant coach, USD men’s basketball interim head coach Joey James saw for the past three years how tough the competition in the Summit League is.  As a first year head coach, he can now say he went through the “meat grinder” of that competition. After seeing his team blow a late lead against […]

The Summit League-leading North Dakota State Bison may have improved to 6-1 in the Summit Thursday night, but they needed a 5-0 run in the final 33 seconds in order to pull off the 66-63 victory. The University of South Dakota Coyotes were back home in the DakotaDome, where they had only lost one game […]

Coming into the 2013-14 season, the University of South Dakota Coyote men’s basketball team featured a roster with nine underclassmen. Pair that with a team that went 10-20 last year, interim head coach Joey James knew it wasn’t always going to  be pretty. James said the entire season has been a grind for his Coyotes […]

Summit League men’s basketball teams are looking up at the University of South Dakota at the top of conference standings after the Coyotes (8-9, 3-0 Summit) captured their fifth straight win with a 75-61 victory over Fort Wayne (15-6, 3-1 Summit). Head coach Joey James said he thinks the Coyotes played about 35 minutes of […]

A 5-9 record through the first 14 games wasn’t the record men’s basketball interim head coach Joey James had envisioned for non-conference play to begin the season. One way to ease the pain of a tough non-conference record is to start conference play on the right note, and that’s just what the Coyotes have done. […]

The Coyotes are limping into Saturday’s match-up with Green Bay after three consecutive losses, and Green Bay is no easy feat. Green Bay is coming into the DakotaDome at 5-3, fresh off a victory over the University of Virginia Saturday. The Phoenix are ranked No. 12 in the College Insider’s Mid-Major’s Top 25, and head […]

0-2. That’s the record of the University of South Dakota men’s basketball team heading into its next game Friday at Wyoming. Two losses – the first a 68-46 blowout at the hands of St. Bonaventure University Nov. 9, the other a 71-66 slip up to Canisius College Nov. 11 – were not an ideal start […]

After two full weeks of practice, the Coyote men’s basketball team is beginning to answer some of the preseason questions. The biggest of which is the team’s starting lineup. There are a few position locks, but for the most part, head coach Joey James says it is an open competition. “Generally there are two or […]

With four practices under its belt, the 2013 men’s basketball team is still searching for its identity. “Defensively we’re trying to build an identity of a tougher basketball team that defends and rebounds better than what we have been in the past,” interim head coach Joey James said. “Once we do that I think this […]