So I was kind of right with my pre-game entry about what to expect with Saturday’s double header in the DakotaDome for the USD men’s and women’s basketball teams with MSU-Mankato.
As I stated in the entry, the women would win by 15-20 while the men would get a tight game.
Can I get a pardon since it happened, but in opposite fashion with the women winning close 73-68 and the men getting the easier win 80-61.
First the USD women, good teams, such as the Coyote women, find ways to win in tight games and that is actually what they did.
Senior guard Shannon Daly had a nice night with 16 points. Daly did a nice job of getting to the basket and coming up with tough baskets inside.
Jeana Hoffman, who could quite possibly be the North Central Conference Player of the Year after being named the Newcomer of the Year last year, scored 13 points, but came up with a clutch 3-pointer with 2:34 remaining to put the Coyotes up two. From that point, the Mavericks tied it but never took the lead again.
The Coyotes won despite hitting just five 3-pointers and shooting 44.1 percent from the field compared to 51.9 percent for the Mavericks.
A veteran USD women’s team was able to make plays in the final two minutes of the game to get the victory. It wasn’t pretty, but it is a win and that is all that matters.
One concern for the Coyotes has to be Jenna Hoffman leaving the game with what looked to be a right ankle injury. I’m sure Matt Dahlseid will have an update on that injury and check back with this blog and the Volante print edition Wednesday.
Now onto the USD men’s game with Mankato.
First off, what a start the Coyotes got off to in that one. A steal on the opening possession and then 3-pointers by Eric Hall and Dylan Grimsley to put USD up 8-0 early.
Mankato gets back to within one at 11-10 and then Jesse Becker and Mitch Begeman come in and score 15 points to make things comfortable again for the Coyotes.
The Mavericks got close in the second half, but never extremely close to were the Coyotes really had to stress. MSU got to within eight, but the Coyotes took used a 10-1 run to again regain supremacy.
To me, Mankato never really had much of a chance, but made that quick start really helped the Coyotes and gassed the Mavericks early.
Or, maybe this isn’t the same MSU team with the graduation of Luke Anderson and co.
Either way, it sets up a very interesting game in Mankato on Valentines day, Thursday Feb. 14 in both teams take care of business this week.
Four wins in two double headers is exactly what the Coyotes were looking forward.
Check out this weeks print issue of the Volante for men’s and women’s basketball stories as well as other interesting stories on USD athletics.
A look back at MSU-Mankato basketball
So I was kind of right with my pre-game entry about what to expect with Saturday’s double header in the DakotaDome for the USD men’s and women’s basketball teams with MSU-Mankato.
As I stated in the entry, the women would win by 15-20 while the men would get a tight game.
Can I get a pardon since it happened, but in opposite fashion with the women winning close 73-68 and the men getting the easier win 80-61.
First the USD women, good teams, such as the Coyote women, find ways to win in tight games and that is actually what they did.
Senior guard Shannon Daly had a nice night with 16 points. Daly did a nice job of getting to the basket and coming up with tough baskets inside.
Jeana Hoffman, who could quite possibly be the North Central Conference Player of the Year after being named the Newcomer of the Year last year, scored 13 points, but came up with a clutch 3-pointer with 2:34 remaining to put the Coyotes up two. From that point, the Mavericks tied it but never took the lead again.
The Coyotes won despite hitting just five 3-pointers and shooting 44.1 percent from the field compared to 51.9 percent for the Mavericks.
A veteran USD women’s team was able to make plays in the final two minutes of the game to get the victory. It wasn’t pretty, but it is a win and that is all that matters.
One concern for the Coyotes has to be Jenna Hoffman leaving the game with what looked to be a right ankle injury. I’m sure Matt Dahlseid will have an update on that injury and check back with this blog and the Volante print edition Wednesday.
Now onto the USD men’s game with Mankato.
First off, what a start the Coyotes got off to in that one. A steal on the opening possession and then 3-pointers by Eric Hall and Dylan Grimsley to put USD up 8-0 early.
Mankato gets back to within one at 11-10 and then Jesse Becker and Mitch Begeman come in and score 15 points to make things comfortable again for the Coyotes.
The Mavericks got close in the second half, but never extremely close to were the Coyotes really had to stress. MSU got to within eight, but the Coyotes took used a 10-1 run to again regain supremacy.
To me, Mankato never really had much of a chance, but made that quick start really helped the Coyotes and gassed the Mavericks early.
Or, maybe this isn’t the same MSU team with the graduation of Luke Anderson and co.
Either way, it sets up a very interesting game in Mankato on Valentines day, Thursday Feb. 14 in both teams take care of business this week.
Four wins in two double headers is exactly what the Coyotes were looking forward.
Check out this weeks print issue of the Volante for men’s and women’s basketball stories as well as other interesting stories on USD athletics.
- – Vance Janak