basketball
Former USD Basketball Player Has Been Deported Following Rape Conviction
After a six-month incarceration, former USD basketball player Mihai Carcoana was deported on Oct. 3. Clay County Sheriff Andy Howe says this is the first time during his tenure an inmate was deported immediately after a sentence. “We’ve never had in my history a person here on state charges that then was released to be […]
The Transfer Portal Creates New Opportunities for Incoming and Outgoing Coyote Athletes
The Transfer Portal has become the new normal for college athletics with more players entering it the last couple of seasons. Let’s take a look at the outgoing and incoming transfers for the football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball teams as of this issue. Football: 10 players exit the Coyotes football team, seven of which […]
Coyote basketball drops three in Brookings
The men’s and women’s basketball teams traveled to Brookings last weekend to take on the South Dakota State Jackrabbits. Friday night started with a women’s game tip-off at 5 p.m. SDSU took an early lead in the first period and maintained that lead throughout the game. Freshman guard, Maddie Krull scored the first points for […]
USD softball heads to Louisiana, Tanagers’ boys basketball hits the road this week
USD: The men’s basketball team travels to Grand Forks, North Dakota to compete against North Dakota on both Feb. 13 and 14 at 2:30 p.m. The women’s basketball team also travels to Grand Forks, ND to play against North Dakota on Feb. 13 and 14 at 12 p.m. The USD softball team starts their season […]
USD swim and dive travel to Sioux Falls, Tanagers basketball with a busy schedule
USD: The USD swim and dive team travels to Sioux Falls for the Coyote Quad Duals which take place Jan. 29 and 30. The volleyball team takes on Creighton in Omaha Friday at 7 p.m.. The two teams play again Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Sanford Coyote Sports Center (SCSC) in Vermillion. The men’s […]
Coyote women’s basketball has weekend games canceled
After an Omaha women’s basketball player tested positive for COVID-19, the pair of games scheduled for Friday and Saturday between USD and Omaha were canceled Monday. Omaha had a bye week last week, and the Coyotes defeated Western Illinois in a pair of games in Macomb, Illinois after a bye week the week before. USD […]
The youngest Plitzuweit, GVSU commit, notches 1,000 career points for VHS
Entering a road match-up against the Ponca Indians on Dec. 17, Lexi Plitzuweit, a senior guard for Vermillion High School, knew she had a chance to do what only five other Tanagers had done before: score 1,000 points in a career. After 18 points and 32 minutes of game-play, Lexi did it. She became the […]
Coyote Athletics Spring Slate
Looking ahead to the new year, Coyotes sports teams are gearing up for an unusual spring. All sports will be competing during the second semester after schedule delays and changes due to the pandemic. Basketball The women’s and men’s basketball teams will be the first Yotes to play in the competition since March. The women […]
Athlete of the Year: Ciara Duffy
For Ciara Duffy, the end to her junior and senior seasons were less than ideal. An ankle injury in the Summit League Championship left Duffy less than 100% for the NCAA Tournament game against Clemson in 2019 and COVID-19 ended a chance at another run in the NCAA Tournament this season. Duffy’s senior season will […]
Sports Rewind: Coyotes take down Florida Gulf Coast, claim WNIT title
EDITORS NOTE: This article is from the 2015-2016 women’s basketball season as the Coyotes claimed the WNIT title in front of their home crowd. This was the last basketball game played in the DakotaDome, as the Sanford Coyote Sports Center opened the following fall. After the Coyotes’ goal of making the NCAA Tournament fell short, […]