Summit League Tournament
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2020 9:41 am
Two exciting games on Saturday night:
#1 North Dakota State beat #8 Denver 71-69.
#7 Purdue Fort Wayne beat #2 South Dakota State 77-74.
Attendance for the Saturday night session = 8,614.
South Dakota State loses their first-round game for the second year in a row.
Trailing by four with 14.4 seconds to go, SDSU freshman Noah Freidel drilled a contested 3-pointer – his seventh of the game – to pull the Jacks within a point at 75-74.
Friedel had four fouls, so SDSU coach Eric Henderson subbed in reserve point guard Brandon Key for Friedel, so that Key or anyone else on the Jacks could quickly foul to send PFW to the line.
But when the ball was in-bounded, nobody grabbed at a Mastodon jersey. Two quick passes led to a Marcus DeBerry layup, and with no timeouts the Jacks couldn’t get Freidel back into the game. They nervously worked the ball back up the floor and never even got off a shot.
#1 North Dakota State beat #8 Denver 71-69.
#7 Purdue Fort Wayne beat #2 South Dakota State 77-74.
Attendance for the Saturday night session = 8,614.
South Dakota State loses their first-round game for the second year in a row.
Trailing by four with 14.4 seconds to go, SDSU freshman Noah Freidel drilled a contested 3-pointer – his seventh of the game – to pull the Jacks within a point at 75-74.
Friedel had four fouls, so SDSU coach Eric Henderson subbed in reserve point guard Brandon Key for Friedel, so that Key or anyone else on the Jacks could quickly foul to send PFW to the line.
But when the ball was in-bounded, nobody grabbed at a Mastodon jersey. Two quick passes led to a Marcus DeBerry layup, and with no timeouts the Jacks couldn’t get Freidel back into the game. They nervously worked the ball back up the floor and never even got off a shot.