The men stayed red hot on the road and the women notched another home win as South Dakota State added a pair of Summit League basketball wins.

South Dakota State pushed its win streak to a season-long six games on Saturday with a 62-50 win at Western Illinois behind a solid defensive effort and a double-double from Jordan Dykstra.

 

“This has been the formula for us, I think when you look back at the past six games; we just crushed our opponents on the glass and the past four games we’ve held our opponents shooting percentage in the 30s. Our kids are getting it,” head coach Scott Nagy said. “When you shoot 37 percent and you win by 12, you guarded and you rebounded, that’s  what’s winning games for us, and that’s how you have to do it on the road.”

 

The Jackrabbits, who improve to 16-10 overall and to 8-3 in The Summit League, did all of that on Saturday, holding the Fighting Leathernecks, who fall to 9-16 overall and to 3-7 in league play, to 32 percent shooting, 15 of 47, and winning the rebounding battle 44-27, which all made up for a tough shooting night that saw the Jacks shoot just 37 percent overall, 17 of 46, 2-10 from 3-point range and 16 for 36 from the free throw line, 72 percent.

 

— South Dakota State used a 17-8 in the game’s final 4:35 to extend its home win streak to 16 games with an 83-79 victory over Western Illinois in Summit League women’s basketball action Saturday in front of 2,276 fans in Frost Arena. The 16-game win streak is the third longest in SDSU history.

 

The Jackrabbits, now 19-8 overall and 10-1 in the Summit, had five players score in double figures. Senior guards Tara Heiser (Watertown) and Steph Paluch (Pierre) joined junior forward Mariah Clarin (Princeton, Minn.) for team-high honors with 14 points each. Junior guard Gabby Boever (Worthington, Minn.) and freshman guard Kerri Young (Mitchell) each added 10 points.  Senior forward Hannah Strop (New Prague, Minn.) snared a team-high nine rebounds.