FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30:
Women’s Basketball:   UMKC @ Air Force
     North Dakota @ North Dakota State
     Texas-Arlington @ Nebraska-Omaha
     Western State @ Black Hills State

Swimming:    South Dakota State @ Jean Freeman Invitational, Minneapols

Wrestling:    South Dakota State @ Cliff Keen Invitational, Las Vegas
     Brookings @ Wahpeton, ND Invitational

Gymnastics:    Brookings @ Sioux Falls Invitational

Hockey:    Brookings Blizzard @ Coulee Region
     Iowa State @ South Dakota State Men, 8:00pm
     Brookings Bantam Tournament
      Redwood Falls vs. Brookings A, 5:30pm
      Tri-City vs. Brookings B, 5:15pm
      Mitchell vs. Luverne, 7:00pm
      Lincoln vs. Pierre, 8:45pm

Bowling:    Brandon Valley @ Brookings, Prairie Lanes

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1:
Football:    South Dakota State @ North Dakota State (Live on Ranch 910AM @ 2:00)
     New Hampshire @ Wofford
     Central Arkansas @ Georgia Southern
     Coastal Carolina @ Old Dominion
     Stony Brook @ Montana State
     Cal Poly @ Sam Houston State
     Illinois State @ Appalachian State
     Wagner @ Eastern Washington
     Missouri Western @ Minnesota State-Mankato
     Saint Xavier @ Morningside

Men’s Basketball:   Nebraska-Omaha @ South Dakota State (Live on B93.7 @ 6:00)
     Western Illinois @ Missouri-Kansas City
     Oakland @ Western Michigan
     Miami (Ohio) @ IPFW
     IUPUI @ South Dakota
     Dakota State @ Martin Luther
     Wayne State @ Augustana
     Sioux Falls @ Southwest Minnesota State
     Minnesota-Moorhead @ Northern State

Women’s Basketball:   Middle Tennessee State @ South Dakota State (Live on B93.7 @ 3:30)
Western Michigan @ Oakland
     UMKC vs. Boise State @ Air Force
     William Woods @ Western Illinois
     Utah Valley State @ South Dakota
     Dakota State @ Martin Luther
     Wayne State @ Augustana
     Sioux Falls @ Southwest Minnesota State
     Minnesota-Moorhead @ Northern State
     Colorado Mesa @ Black Hills State

Swimming:    South Dakota State @ Jean Freeman Invitational, Minneapolis

Wrestling:    South Dakota State @ Cliff Keen Invitational, Las Vegas
     Brookings @ Wahpeton, ND Invitational
     Kingsbury Co. @ Clark/Willow Lake Tournament
     Deuel, Sioux Valley, Howard, Garretson @ Flandreau Invitational, 10:00am
     McCook Central/Montrose, Tri-Valley @ Dell Rapids Tournament, 10:00am


Hockey:    Yankton @ Pee Wee 1, Noon
     Pierre @ Boys Varsity, 5:45pm
     Iowa State vs. South Dakota State Men, 8:00pm
     Brookings Bantam Tournament
      Luverne vs. Omaha, 8:00am
      AL vs. Redwood Falls, 10:00am
      Tri-City vs. Omaha, 1:30pm
      Pierre vs. Brookings B, 3:15pm
      Albert Lea vs. Brookings A
      Omaha vs. Mitchell, 7:15pm
      Omaha vs. Lincoln, 9:15pm     

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2:
Women’s Basketball:   North Dakota State @ Northern Colorado

Hockey:    Pierre @ Boys JV, 2:00pm
Pierre @ Boys Varsity, 4:00pm
Brookings Bantam Tournament
      A Fifth Place, 8:00am
      A Third Place, 10:00am
      A Championship, Noon
      Brookings B vs. Omaha, 7:45am
      Tri-City vs. Pierre, 9:45am
      Brookings B vs. Lincoln, 11:45am

MONDAY, DECEMBER 3:
Women’s Basketball:   Youngstown State @ IUPUI

Wrestling:    Chamberlain, West Central @ Brookings, 5:30pm

MEN’S BB…Ceola Clark's basket at the buzzer gave Western Illinois a 73-71 win over South Dakota. Clark led the Leathernecks with 20 points in the Summit League opener for both teams. Don McAvoy III added 16 points, Terell Parks 14 and Jordan Foster scored 11.  Juevol Myles had 21 points, 15 of them in the second half, for the Coyotes. Karim Rowson added 19 points -- 17 in the second half.
   Taylor Braun scored 26 points and nine rebounds, both game highs, and North Dakota State routed Omaha 95-51. TrayVonn Wright and Marshall Bjorklund scored 14 points and Lawrence Alexander added 13 points for the Bison.  Justin Simmons scored 14 for the Mavericks.
   Fred Chatmon scored a career-high 20 points to lead Kansas City to a 79-65 win over IUPUI.  Nate Rogers added 13 points for Kansas City.  Thomas Staton scored 11 and Kirk Korver had 10 points for the Kangaroos. P.J. Hubert led the Jaguars with 18 points. Donovan Gibbs had 14 points and eight rebounds, and Mitchell Patton and John Hart scored 10 apiece.

WOMEN’S BB…Behind a school-record-tying 43 points from junior Amanda Hyde, IPFW held on late for a 78-65 victory over Southern Illinois. 
   Idaho State's Lindsey Reed scored 20 points as the Bengals handed USD a 69-45 loss. Tempestt Wilson was USD's leading scorer with a season-high 14 points.
   IUPUI held a four-point lead with a minute to play, but Eastern Illinois made two buckets in the final minute to force overtime before going a perfect 2-of-2 from the floor and 9-of-10 from the free throw line in the extra period to defeat the Jaguars, 71-60.

SDSU FB…A Missouri Valley Football Conference rivalry resumes Saturday when South Dakota State visits North Dakota State in the FCS playoffs.  The pre-game show starts at 2:00pm on the Ranch 910AM – kickoff is at 3:00pm.
   The Jacks manhandled Eastern Illinois last week – head coach John Stiegelmeier didn’t expect 400-plus yards rushing.  97631   :30   “the football game”.
   Stiegelmeier says successful teams stick to what got them there, and doesn’t expect a lot of tweaks.  97632   :34   “simple a concept”.
   The Jacks played in Fargo three weeks ago – Stiegelmeier says there are positives to that situation.  97633   :31   “type of mistakes”.
   Stiegelmeier says the Jacks won’t be able to take the crowd out of the game – he expects the fans will be vocal throughout.

NCAA VB…The Fort Wayne women's volleyball team ended the 2012 season with a 11-25, 25-23, 25-22, 13-25, 7-15 loss to No. 18 Iowa State in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament. The Mastodons end the year as The Summit League Champions with an overall record of 25-7.
   Megan Steenhuysen recorded 37 assists and 13 digs on the night while fellow senior Tessa McGill led the team with 20 digs.

JOHNSTON-SUMMIT…The University of Denver has accepted an invitation to join the Summit League, starting in the 2013-14 academic year.
   SDSU women’s basketball coach Aaron Johnston says, basketball-wise, he welcomes the news.  97626   :16   “positive for us”.
   Denver will be the only conference school not along, or east, of Interstate 29.  Johnston says some fans were asking about the league footprint.  97627   :10   “excited about it”.
   Commissioner Tom Douple noted Denver’s access by air, as a positive in bringing the Pioneers’ programs into the league.

LARSON-RANGERS…The Brookings Rangers boys’ varsity hockey team has opened the season with a new head coach.
   Joe Larson played high school hockey in Apple Valley, MN – then moved into the NAHL junior programs.  He had been helping with teams in Minnesota – then moved to Brookings to take the Rangers’ program.  97628   :17   “I came running”.
   The Rangers opened the season with three games in the Rooster Cup – Larson says he kept rolling four lines throughout the weekend.  97629   :21   “that we’re running”.
   Larson – appearing on the “Blizzard Buzz” program on the Ranch 910AM – says Brookings has a good senior class.  97630   :12   “next few years”.
   Larson says the younger players have accepted their roles well, and are quickly picking up on the new systems.

SUMMIT TRACK POLL…The North Dakota State men's and women's track and field teams were voted the preseason favorites to capture The Summit League Indoor Track and Field titles in a vote of the league's head coaches.
    NDSU’s men tallied 24 points and four first-places votes as the league favorite.  USD finished second with 20 points and one first-place vote, while SDSU came in third with 19 points and the final first-place tally. Kansas City, Western Illinois and Oakland   rounded out the men's poll.
   The Bison finished atop the women’s poll with 49 points and seven first-place votes, while USD took second with 43 points and the final first-place vote. SDSU collected 37 points in third, followed by Kansas City with 29 points in fourth and Western Illinois with 21 points in fifth. Rounding out the women's poll were Oakland, league newcomer Omaha and Fort Wayne.

HUSKERS-SOONERS…Nebraska and Oklahoma will renew one of college football's greatest rivalries for two seasons.
   The schools say they have signed a contract that will have the Cornhuskers and Sooners play in 2021 in Norman, Okla., and in 2022 in Lincoln, Neb.
   Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne said the schools have a tradition of playing "with great intensity on the field, but with a great deal of respect from both sides and among the fan bases."
   Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione said it was important to both fan bases to "rekindle a fabled series between two tradition-rich programs."
   The teams played 71 straight seasons as members of the Big Six and Big Eight. The game decided the old Big Eight championship 31 times in 36 seasons.

LONG PUTTERS…Two-time Masters champion Bernhard Langer says the debate over putting with long clubs is far from over.
   Langer has been using a long putter he anchors to his chest for 15 years, and the German remains one of the best on the 50-and-older Champions Tour, winning the money list for the fourth time this year. He was perplexed when the U.S. Golf Association and the Royal & Ancient Golf Club announced a new rule that would ban players from anchoring the club to the body.
   Langer says if putting is easy with a long putter, 90 percent of the pros and 100 percent of the amateurs should be using it, which isn’t the case.
   Langer says there might be a challenge to the rule proposal.