The other, the coach said, was Colorado State, which lost to the Jackrabbits in the first round of the NIT.
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Back-to-back 3-pointers from Deondre Parks extended the Jackrabbits largest lead of the game to 62-37 with 15:34 on the clock, a lead that would grow to 17 by the 13:22 mark of the second half on a Parks jumper. Coprich’s TD runs covered 12, 12, 45 and 74 yards.
Roberson completed just two passes in the game, but one was a 20-yard TD to Christian Gibbs with 2:49 left in the half to go up 16-0.
“They did a real nice jobs on us”, South Dakota coach Joe Glenn said. “I didn’t think that was us”.
With an unprecendented second straight Missouri Valley Football Conference championship in sight, ISU’s vision and execution through driving snow and gusting wind was flawless Saturday at Hancock Stadium.
SDSU started the game with six baskets from six different players, and made five of its first six shots from the floor to open up a 12-6 lead just over five minutes into the game. The Jackrabbits had 10 turnovers and went 0 for 8 from the field over that time. Coprich gained 48 yards on the drive that ended with a bobbled snap on the PAT.
Brent Spack recovered a South Dakota fumble forced by James Graham on the second half’s opening kickoff.
United States dollars was held to just 155 total yards.
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Ryan Saeger was 3-for-19 passing for 24 yards. SDSU improves to 3-33 all-time against Big 12 opponents, with the last win coming at Iowa State on December 23, 2008, by the score of 65-58 … the first win over a Big 12 foe came against Oklahoma State on December 15, 1931 by the score of 42-20 in Brookings … “This is a good football team”. “I think we caught a couple of them on an off night, we’ve had those things happen, too, we were fortunate there, but there were a few things that we didn’t do great”.
