South Dakota returns home to host Mount Marty for a mid-week nonconference game. The Coyotes and the Lancers tip off at 7 p.m. Wednesday inside the Sanford Coyote Sports Center in Vermillion, S.D.

The Promotions
It's Yankton Day inside the Sanford Coyote Sports Center. Yankton school district families can get half-price tickets to the game and a Yankton student will sing the National Anthem ahead of tip-off.

Every Wednesday this season is BOGO Wednesday as fans who buy one ticket to the USD basketball game get another of equal or lesser value for half price.

The Game
After a 3-0 start to Summit League play, the best in the program's seven-year league history, the Coyotes host nearby Mount Marty College in nonconference action. The game will feature plenty of shooters outside the arc as the Coyotes are coming off a two-game stretch with 28 combined 3-pointers. The Lancers average 10 made 3-pointers a game while attempting almost 30.

The Coyotes
Defense continues to be the focal point for Dawn Plitzuweit's Coyotes. South Dakota is holding opponents to 61.8 points, forcing 18 turnovers and swiping 10 steals per game. The Coyotes rank second in the Summit for turnovers forced and steals. South Dakota is paced by its starting trio of guards in sophomore Ciara Duffy, junior Allison Arens and junior Jaycee Bradley in double figures. Duffy and Bradley averaged 18.5 points in the pair of road wins last week. Bradley was nearly perfect in 8-of-9 shooting from the field at North Dakota State for 21 points with five assists. Duffy made 9-of-14 field goals for 21 points against Western Illinois while grabbing nine boards and dishing out five assists.

The Lancers
Tom Schlimgen's Lancers are young this season, with just one senior and three underclassmen in the starting five. Sophomore Ali Kuca leads the team in scoring with 11.7 points per game while junior Karissa Chamley chimes in with 9.8 points and 7.8 rebounds. Six players average six or more points per game. Looking for lots of shots from downtown as more than half of the Lancers' shots are taken outside the arc with 10 made triples per game. Mount Marty's 10 triples a game ranks fifth in the NAIA Division II rankings.

The Series
Wednesday marks the 42nd meeting between the Coyotes and the Lancers, but the first since December of 2009. The Coyotes and the Lancers missed just two seasons (1991-92, 2001-02) between 1983 and 2009, otherwise meeting once or twice annually. South Dakota has won the last 11 in the series, dating back to 1998, with all of those games played in Vermillion.

One Last Thing
Sophomore Ciara Duffy, who earned her second straight Summit League Player of the Week honor on Monday, has made three triples a contest for six-straight games. The streak has moved her to 13th in the nation for 3-point field goal percentage. She's made 26 of 56 this season for 46.4 percent outside the arc.