South Dakota made a strong opening statement to Summit League play with an 86-69, start-to-finish drubbing of Omaha Thursday inside Sanford Coyote Sports Center.
It was the team’s largest margin of victory in a conference game in four seasons.
Trey Dickerson scored a season-high 17 points while Matt Mooney and Tyler Flack added 16 each as the Coyotes (10-6, 1-0 Summit) improved to 7-0 in their new facility. It was the team’s first 1-0 start to Summit play in three seasons.
Omaha (7-7, 0-1), which entered the game with the highest non-conference RPI amongst Summit League teams, trailed 29-9 with less than seven minutes to go in the first half and never recovered. The Mavericks had six field goals in the first half, were 0 for 7 from downtown, and committed 11 turnovers in trailing 45-23 at the break. Zach Jackson led UNO with 14 points.
