The South Dakota men's basketball team hosts former conference foe UMKC Saturday at 1 p.m. inside the Sanford Coyote Sports Center.

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The Game
South Dakota returns home for the first of two-straight games with the contest against the Kangaroos. The two squads meet for the fourth-straight season but the series shifts to Vermillion for the first time since 2015. South Dakota has taken two of the last three meetings including last season's 82-63 win in Kansas City.
 
The Kangaroos
UMKC picked up its first Division I win last in its last game, a 90-73 toppling at Purdue Fort Wayne. Rob Whitfield made seven 3-point baskets and scored 23 points while Xavier Bishop added 20. Bishop is the team's leading scorer at 17.2 points per game as Whitfield adds in 12.3 and Brandon McKissic chips in 11.0. Danny Dixon tops the team with 5.1 rebounds per game.
 
UMKC, 2-7 on the season, is picked to finish fifth in the Western Athletic Conference. The Kangaroos have played a challenging schedule top open the season with games at Iowa and UCONN, at 2018 Final Four darling Loyola-Chicago, and games with Eastern Washington, Drake and South Dakota State.
 
The Coyotes
South Dakota is 4-4 on the season but holds a perfect 3-0 record on its home floor. Trey Burch-Manning continues to lead the Coyotes with 15.8 points and 7.1 rebounds per game. Both numbers are career-bests for the senior who has surpassed 500 rebound at South Dakota and 1,000 points in his collegiate career. Juniors Triston Simpson and Tyler Peterson also average double digits at 13.0 and 11.5 points per game, respectively.
 
South Dakota tops the Summit league in scoring defense, allowing just 63.8 points per game to be scored by the opposition. That is four points better than second-best North Dakota at 67.8.
 
The Series
South Dakota holds the all-time series lead at 4-3 and a 2-1 lead with games played in Vermillion. The Coyotes and Kangaroos have a short history as conference foes. When the Coyotes joined the Summit League, UMKC was a member of the league. Over two years and four meetings, the two squads split the contests with USD sweeping 2011-12. UMKC followed up to sweep 2012-13. The series resumed as a nonconference contest in 2015-16.
 
One Last Thing
Although UMKC is part of the Western Athletic Conference, the Coyotes' game with the Kangaroos is not part of the Summit vs. WAC Challenge. South Dakota's game for the Summit vs. WAC Challenge was the 68-56 victory over CSU Bakersfield on Dec. 1, one of just two victories for the Summit League in the challenge with two games remaining. South Dakota holds a 4-3 record over schools that are part of the Western Athletic Conference.