South Dakota Coyotes (9-12, 2-4 Summit League) at UMKC Kangaroos (8-13, 2-4 Summit League)
South Dakota
UMKC hosts South Dakota after Stewart's 44-point game
The Coyotes have gone 2-4 against Summit League opponents. South Dakota has a 2-3 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.
UMKC scores 71.6 points per game, 6.1 fewer points than the 77.7 South Dakota gives up. South Dakota averages 76.3 points per game, 4.8 more than the 71.5 UMKC gives up.
The matchup Saturday is the first meeting of the season for the two teams in conference play.
TOP PERFORMERS: Jamar Brown is averaging 14 points and 6.2 rebounds for the Kangaroos. Cameron Faas is averaging 2.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games for UMKC.
Stewart is shooting 42.5% from beyond the arc with 2.6 made 3-pointers per game for the Coyotes, while averaging 15.6 points. Lahat Thioune is shooting 55.8% and averaging 12.4 points over the last 10 games for South Dakota.
LAST 10 GAMES: Kangaroos: 3-7, averaging 70.6 points, 39.2 rebounds, 13.6 assists, 4.9 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 40.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 74.1 points per game.
Coyotes: 2-8, averaging 71.5 points, 38.1 rebounds, 11.6 assists, 3.4 steals and 2.0 blocks per game while shooting 42.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 81.4 points.
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
South Dakota
Republican businessman Toby Doeden advances to primary runoff in South Dakota governor’s race
Republican businessman Toby Doeden has advanced to a runoff in South Dakota governor’s race, NBC News projects.
Gov. Larry Rhoden, who replaced Kristi Noem last year when President Donald Trump nominated her to lead the Department of Homeland Security, was battling with Rep. Dusty Johnson and former state House Speaker Jon Hansen for a second spot in the July 28 runoff. The primary will go to a runoff because no candidate eclipsed 35% of the vote.
Trump did not issue an endorsement in the race. Doeden branded himself on his campaign website as “a total political outsider who’s tired of the government’s failure to deliver on its promises” and one of Trump’s “fiercest supporters.”
Rhoden, a former lieutenant governor, agriculture secretary and lawmaker, campaigned on property tax cuts and lowering crime in his bid for a four-year term.
Johnson is the state’s lone representative in the House, where he previously was chair of the Republican Main Street Caucus. Hansen, who was elected to the South Dakota House in 2010, held several leadership positions before he became speaker.
The Republican nominee will be the favorite to win the general election in the solidly red state this fall. A Democrat has not served as governor in South Dakota since the 1970s, and Trump carried the state by 29 points in 2024.
News
Agronomist: eastern South Dakota crops hit and miss
An agronomist in eastern South Dakota says corn and soybeans are hit and miss as the growing season begins.
Steven Zemlicka with AgTegra Cooperative tells Brownfield, “We’ve got corn anywhere from V1 all the way up to V4. Biggest stuff’s maybe touching V5. Corn’s coming right along, looks pretty good. A little bit of hail here too, but I don’t think it’s going to be much of an issue. Stands for the most part are pretty good, pretty solid.”
Zemlicka says soybean emergence has been slow due to the wet, cool conditions, and there are a few fields that still need planted.
“People were still working on planting soybeans when we got the recent rain.”
He says recent rain totals ranged from a half inch to as much as four inches in the northeast part of South Dakota; the southern part of the state has been drier.
South Dakota’s corn is rated 61 percent good to excellent, with soybean conditions rated 57 percent good to excellent, according to USDA’s first condition ratings of the season.
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