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BROOKINGS, S.D. - The IUPUI basketball team will conclude its regular season against South Dakota State on Saturday night in a 8:30 p.m. EST tipoff. Pregame coverage on IUPUIJags.com will begin at approximately 8:20 with Scott McCauley on the call.
IUPUI (21-9, 14-3 Summit) has already clinched the No. 2 seed in the upcoming Summit League Tournament and is one win shy of matching a school record for league wins in a season. Sophomore
Alex Young led the Jaguars to a 66-52 win at North Dakota State on Thursday night, leading all scorers with 23 points on 10-of-14 shooting. It was a historic night for senior
Robert Glenn, who became just the 19th player in school history to eclipse the 1,000 point mark in his career, doing so in just 60 games. He becomes the just the fifth to achieve the mark in two seasons and the sixth to reach 1,000 exclusive at the Division I level.
Glenn and Young continue to rank 1-2 in The Summit in scoring and among the top 10 scoring duos in the country. As a team, IUPUI is still among the top five in the country in field goal shooting, hitting nearly 51 percent of its tries.
Both
John Ashworth and
Leroy Nobles added 10 points on Thursday while senior
Billy Pettiford handed out his 300th career assist in the victory. He's just four rebounds away from becoming the second player in school history to accumulate 600 rebounds and 300 assists.
IUPUI won the previous meeting against the Jackrabbits, 79-57 back on Dec. 3 in The Jungle. The Jaguars lead the all-time series 4-1 against the Jacks. SDSU is led by sharpshooting guards Clint Sargent (12.8 ppg) and Garrett Callahan (11.8 ppg). Senior Kai Williams provides Head Coach Scott Nagy's team with an inside-outside threat, averaging 10.9 points and 6.4 rebounds a night. As a team, SDSU comes in shooting 37.2 percent from three and hits seven a night.