The Game

South Dakota travels to Kansas City for a pair of games at 2 p.m. Friday and Saturday inside the Swinney Center in Kansas City, Missouri. A free live stream of the game will be available on KCroos.com. Fans can tune into the game on the Coyote Sports Network with Carter Woodiel on KVHT 106.3 FM in Yankton/Vermillion or by using the TuneIn app.
 

The Coyotes

South Dakota (6-3, 2-0 Summit) is under the leadership of a stellar senior class. Preseason Summit League Player of the Year Hannah Sjerven put together an impressive opening weekend, averaging 24 points and 9.5 caroms in a pair of wins over Denver. The performance earned her the Summit's weekly honor. Sjerven is the league's leading scorer at 19.1 points per game and she's joined by classmates Chloe Lamb (16.8 ppg) and Liv Korngable (15.0) in the league's top-six scorers. The Coyotes are one of seven schools nationally with three players averaging 15 or more points per game. Additionally, Sjerven sits 37 points away from 1,000 at South Dakota.
 

The Roos

Kansas City (4-3, 1-0 Summit) won the program's first-ever conference title last season in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). The Roos join the Coyotes atop the Summit League standings entering the second weekend, overcoming a 17-point second quarter deficit at North Dakota to win in overtime. Kansas City is led by Naomie Alnatas' 14.9 points per game. Teammate Paige Bradford joins her in double-figures with 11.4 points and a team-high 8.1 rebounds per game while shooting 60.8 percent from the field. Kansas City's offensive output is the third-highest in the league at 72.1 points per game, with the Roos failing to reach 60 points just once this season.
 

The Series

Kansas City leads the series 4-2 with the last meeting between the two programs in 2013. In the two seasons where the teams overlapped in the Summit League previously, the home squad in all four meetings. South Dakota won the last meeting on Feb. 9, 2013, by 22 points inside the DakotaDome.
 

One Last Thing

South Dakota has committed the ninth-fewest turnovers in the nation (10.8 per game) this season. The Coyotes face the league's steals leader in Kansas City this week.