Articles Tagged: South Dakota State Jackrabbits

The head coach and a starting guard for South Dakota State used the same two words as a possibility for the Cyclones after ISU’s 82-65 first-round NCAA tourney win over the Jackrabbits: National championship

Iowa State will face the program that gave T.J. Otzelberger his first college head coaching job — South Dakota State — in Thursday’s first-round NCAA tournament game in Omaha. And suffice it to say, Otzelberger’s ties to the 15th-seeded Jackrabbits and head coach Eric Henderson still run deep.

Iowa, Iowa State, UNI and former Iowa preps have compelling stories that could play out at the NCAA Division I Wrestlin Championships this week at T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Mo.

Iowa suffered consecutive losses for the first time since 2018, Iowa State beat UNI, Coe won the Bremner Cup dual against Cornell, Wartburg won the American Rivers Conference again and Tanner Sloan posted a notable win during the Wrestling Weekend That Was.

Five first-half turnovers squashed Northern Iowa’s hopes of upsetting No. 1 South Dakota State on Saturday afternoon, as the Jackrabbits cruised to a 41-6 win at Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium.

Northern Iowa takes its three-game winning streak on the road Saturday to No. 1 South Dakota State. Here’s what you need to know, plus three keys and a prediction for the Panthers.

While optimism was everywhere on the first day of August, MVFC voters almost unanimously picked South Dakota State — the reigning national champions — to repeat as the conference’s top team.

Former Solon standout AJ Coons has gone into the transfer protal. The 6-foot-4, 215-pound receiver spent the past three years with South Dakota State.

The NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships in Tulsa, Okla., was filled with greatness, intensity and surprise. Everything we have come to expect from the biggest wrestling event in the world. Here is the Wrestling Weekend That Was, NCAA edition.

Iowa’s Real Woods, Iowa State’s David Carr, Northern Iowa’s Parker Keckeisen and South Dakota State’s Tanner Sloan, a former Alburnett prep, finished second in the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships.

When Real Woods advanced to the NCAA wrestling finals, the Iowa celebration was subdued. The win came on the heels of a crushing loss that shocked the Hawkeyes and most of the wrestling world when Purdue’s Matt Ramos derailed Spencer Lee’s attempt for a fourth national title.

Iowa State’s David Carr defeated Stanford’s Shane Griffith, 2-1, in a battle of former national champions in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships on Friday at BOK Center. He claimed his third All-America honor and returned to the semifinals after a year hiatus.

Former Union Community prep Jack Thomsen has enjoyed a successful redshirt season this year at South Dakota State, wrestling unattached and advancing to the finals of the Soldier Salute college wrestling tournament Friday at Xtream Arena.

Plenty of wrestling action surrounded Turkey Day. Iowa and UNI competed at Iowa State’s Harold Nichols Open. Upper Iowa dominated in its first dual. Waverly-Shell Rock claimed the team title at Linn-Mar. Here is a look at the Wrestling Weekend That Was.

Having won five of its last six games and three in a row, the Northern Iowa football team has reentered the playoff picture. It can give its chances of an at-large berth a massive boost with a win Saturday over No. 1 South Dakota State. Here are three keys to the game and a prediction, plus how to watch.