The Western Michigan Broncos (2-3) hit the court against the South Dakota Coyotes (4-1) on Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 7:00 PM ET on ESPN+. Below, we analyze the Western Michigan vs. South Dakota odds and lines around this game.
The Broncos and the Coyotes meet with no line currently set for the matchup.
Western Michigan has compiled a 2-2-0 record against the spread this season, while South Dakota is 0-2-0. The Broncos have gone over the point total in two games, while Coyotes games have gone over one time.
Here’s everything you need to prepare for Wednesday’s college basketball action.
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Western Michigan vs. South Dakota prediction
South Dakota 86, Western Michigan 71
Against the spread
Western Michigan has a record of 2-2-0 against the spread this season.
The 71.8 points per game the Broncos put up are the same as the Coyotes give up.
The Coyotes score an average of 86.0 points per game, 18.2 more points than the 67.8 the Broncos give up to opponents.
South Dakota is 0-2 against the spread and 4-1 overall when it scores more than 67.8 points.
Western Michigan’s record is 2-2 against the spread and 2-3 overall when it allows fewer than 86.0 points.
Players to watch
Western Michigan
Javaughn Hannah posts a team-best 12.0 points per game. He is also posting 3.6 rebounds and 2.0 assists, shooting 46.9% from the floor and 33.3% from beyond the arc with 1.0 made 3-pointers per game.
Owen Lobsinger is tops on his team in rebounds per contest (7.8), and also averages 11.0 points and 1.6 assists. At the other end, he posts 0.6 steals and 0.2 blocked shots.
Markhi Strickland is putting up 10.2 points, 1.8 assists and 2.6 rebounds per contest.
South Dakota
Chase Forte tops the Coyotes in assists (3.6 per game), and produces 12.0 points and 2.2 rebounds. He also puts up 2.0 steals and 0.2 blocked shots.
Isaac Bruns is posting team highs in points (14.0 per game) and assists (0.4). And he is delivering 4.4 rebounds, making 54.5% of his shots from the floor and 27.3% from beyond the arc, with 1.2 treys per game.
Quandre Bullock is posting 9.6 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.4 assists per contest, making 47.2% of his shots from the floor and 34.8% from beyond the arc, with 1.6 treys per game.
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(AP) — Aidan Bouman threw three touchdown passes, Charles Pierre Jr. and Travis Theis both ran for more than 100 yards and a touchdown and South Dakota held on to beat North Dakota 42-36 on Saturday.
Theis, who had 150 yards on 16 carries, scored on an 8-yard run early in the fourth quarter to make it 35-21. Then Pierre, who had 173 yards on 15 carries, broke loose for a 76-yard touchdown to stretch the lead to three touchdowns with 9:35 to play.
Simon Romfo scored on a 7-yard run and then found Bo Belquist for a 3-yard touchdown pass and threw a 2-point conversion with 23 seconds left.
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But the Coyotes (8-2, 6-1 Missouri Valley Football Conference), the No. 5 team in the FCS coaches poll, recovered the onside kick to set up a showdown with top-ranked North Dakota State next week.
Sawyer Seidl scored on a 51-yard run to give North Dakota a 7-0 lead after one quarter. Romfo threw short touchdown passes to Nick Kupfer and Quincy Vaughn and Bouman matched that, hitting Carter Bell and Quaron Adams, but the Fighting Hawks (5-6, 2-5) led 21-17 at the break.
South Dakota took the lead on a 53-yard Bouman-to-Pierre connection four plays into the second half.
Bouman was 15 of 21 for 190 yards as the Coyotes had 512 total yards. Romfo was 20 of 30 for 180 as North Dakota finished with 322 yards.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – On Friday, the North Dakota Public Service Commission unanimously approved a route permit for Summit Carbon Solutions and its CO2 pipeline project.
The pipeline would run through five states, including 18 counties in South Dakota, to transport sequestered carbon dioxide from ethanol plants to an underground storage location west of Bismark, North Dakota.
South Dakota is now one of the last things standing in the way of the project.
Landowners opposing the project like Ed Fischbach are still optimistic that they can prevent the pipeline, but they believe more action is needed to protect South Dakotans.
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Fischbach said it wasn’t a surprise that North Dakota approved the permit.
“North Dakota’s laws are unfortunately not as good as ours are,” Fischbach explained. “Their law basically is what we just defeated in the referral. They have that in place up there similar to what RL 21 was.”
Opponents said that Referred Law 21, which South Dakota voters shot down, would have allowed Summit Carbon Solutions to supersede local and county laws and ordinances.
Some landowners pointed out that some counties have been slow to incorporate their own regulatory ordinances, like Turner or McCook Counties.
“I just can’t understand why they wouldn’t want to do that. They have the authority. They have the power,” Fischbach said.
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Northern South Dakota Counties like Brown, McPherson and Spink counties have all set a standard for what these ordinances might look like.
Fischbach is proud of the work that was done to provide setbacks to route any potential pipeline project further away from homes schools, hospitals, feedlots and more.
The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission deemed these ordinances fair and reasonable. Although this reasoning was used by the PUC as part of the reason for denying Summit Carbon Solutions’ permit application, landowners believe more counties need to create these ordinances to better protect residents and their property rights.
“Any county that’s not doing that, I think they’re just not representing their people like they should be,” said Fischbach. “For the citizens of those counties, they just need to go to their county commission meeting and keep speaking out and asking them to step up and do it.”
As for Summit Carbon Solutions, they celebrated their win in North Dakota and now look forward to reapplying for a permit in South Dakota.
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They stated that their application would be submitted on November 19, which is now just a few days away.
They remain hopeful that they can get the project to the finish line and provide economic benefits to the region.
In a press release, they said, “Summit Carbon Solutions remains committed to working collaboratively with affected landowners and communities as the project progresses toward construction and operations.”
The landowners opposing the pipeline have said that they have had a total of six big victories over Summit Carbon Solutions thus far, including the previous rejections from the South Dakota PUC and the South Dakota Supreme Court.
They believe that the South Dakota PUC will rule in their favor again.
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“This has been a three-and-a-half-year struggle from the very beginning,” Fischbach said. “No one ever gave us a chance up against this giant of a company with millions of dollars and we’ve still defeated them just by doing things on the ground and going out directly to people. The frustrating part of this whole fight is that this company doesn’t seem to get the message. I mean, how many times does it take for them to understand that the people of South Dakota are saying no? Our grassroots coalition is energized, we’re not going anywhere and we’re going to stay in the fight until they are gone once and for all.”
Outside of county ordinances and showing up in opposition of Summit Carbon Solutions’ permit application, South Dakotans who oppose the pipeline project are hoping that legislation to change eminent domain laws in South Dakota will be passed in the upcoming session.
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