South Dakota hosts Oral Roberts at 1 p.m. Saturday inside the Sanford Coyote Sports Center in Vermillion, S.D.

The Pink Game
Welcome to the friendly confines of the Sanford Coyote Sports Center where the Coyotes boast a 39-3 facility record, outscoring foes by an average of 21.6 points. Saturday's contest serves as the annual Pink Game with the Coyotes and the South Dakota bench sporting pink for breast cancer awareness. The athletic department is also auctioning off three framed jerseys to raise money for Dakota Hospital Foundation. More information on the jersey auction can be found here.

The Coyotes
South Dakota's (21-3, 9-1 Summit) league-leading defense has been impressive with five-straight games of holding foes to 50 or fewer points, a feat that has not been accomplished since 1973. The Coyotes' scoring defense is holding foes to 57.5 points, 37 percent from the field, 31 percent from 3-point range and forcing nearly 19 turnovers per game. On the offensive end of the floor, South Dakota boasts a balanced offense that's paced by junior guard Ciara Duffy's 14.8 points per game. Both senior guard Allison Arens and sophomore center Hannah Sjerven contribute double-figure averages while four more players average more than six points per game. The Coyotes average 77.2 points per game for the 29th-best scoring offense in the nation and have had seven different players lead the team in scoring for a game this season. The Coyotes have been receiving votes in the Associated Press Top 25 poll for 10-straight weeks and the USA Today Coaches poll for nine of the last 10 weeks.

The Golden Eagles
Oral Roberts (13-11) currently sits fourth in the Summit League standings at 6-5. The Golden Eagles are led by redshirt-senior Lakota Beatty's 14.9 points and 3.5 assists per game. Beatty is in her sixth season after receiving a medical hardship waiver from the NCAA. Another sharp-shooting Summit League team, Oral Roberts ranks third in the nation for 3-pointers made this season with 237. Beatty paces the group with 74 of her own (eight in the first meeting with USD), which ranks fifth in the nation, but four Golden Eagles have made more triples than any Coyote this year. While the Golden Eagles hit plenty of shots from downtown, they also hold opponents down to 31.4 percent from 3-point range, a number which ranks second in the league behind USD.

The Series
South Dakota leads the all-time series with Oral Roberts 10-3 with eight-straight victories over the Golden Eagles. South Dakota rallied from a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit back on Jan. 18 to edge out Oral Roberts 76-72 on the road. Arens and Duffy took over for the Coyotes in that one with 26 and 25 points, respectively.

One Last Thing
The Coyotes were so excited to be playing at home again on Wednesday that they held Omaha scoreless (29-0) scoreless in the first quarter! It marked a first since the NCAA switched to the quarter system in 2015-16.