South Dakota basketball dropped a men’s game at Nebraska Saturday and a women’s game Sunday at Wyoming.
South Dakota cut a 26-4 deficit down to two points late in the second half, but couldn’t get over the hump in a 73-61 loss to Nebraska Saturday at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Matt Mooney led the Coyotes (6-4) with a game-high 18 points. Tyler Flack had 13 and Trey Dickerson added 11 for South Dakota.
It was a game billed as the mentor in Nebraska head coach Tim Miles against his protégé, USD head coach Craig Smith, a long-time assistant under Miles at four different programs including two seasons at Nebraska. It was Miles’ Huskers who connected on all cylinders early in building a 22-point lead less than nine minutes into the game.
Nebraska (5-3) hit four 3-pointers, including back-to-back 3’s by Michael Jacobson, in building its lead. The Huskers made 9 of 23 from downtown for the game while the Coyotes went 5 for 16.
Wyoming made 12 free throws during a five-minute overtime period to defeat South Dakota 69-62 on Sunday afternoon at Arena-Auditorium.
Wyoming (6-2) remains unbeaten on its home court, the highest NCAA Division I basketball court in the nation at 7,220 feet, this season with six home victories. South Dakota (6-2) wraps up its final non-conference true road game.
