The Game

South Dakota travels to San Jose State for a 9 p.m. (CST) tip-off Tuesday night at the Event Center Arena in San Jose, California.
 
The game will be streamed on the Mountain West Network. Fans can tune into the game on the Coyote Sports Network with John Thayer on the call, with the radio broadcast carried on KVHT 106.3 FM in Yankton/Vermillion and KQSF 95.7 in Sioux Falls, or by using The Varsity Network app.
 

The Coyotes

South Dakota (4-2) won three-straight games at home last week, but the Coyotes are looking for their first road win in three tries. The Coyotes dropped an 83-70 decision at Nebraska on Saturday in the championship game of the Nebraska MTE. Kruz Perrott-Hunt led USD with 19 points against the Huskers and averaged 17 in the MTE's three games. He leads a trio of Coyotes who are averaging double-figure scoring through six games. In addition to Perrott-Hunt's team-high 15.2 points a game, Xavier Fuller and Mason Archambault are averaging 12.0 and 11.7 points per contest.
 

The Spartans

San Jose State (2-3) is under the direction of first-year head coach Tim Miles. A South Dakota native, Miles is in his 25th season as a head coach, with previous stops at Nebraska, Colorado State, North Dakota State, Southwest Minnesota State and Mayville State. Two of the Spartans' losses this season have come at Power 5 foes – Stanford and No. 8 Texas. Three-year starting guard Omari Moore leads the squad with 15.5 points per game while shooting at a 58.5 percent clip. He dropped 28 points, including the game-winning dunk with four seconds on the clock, in the Spartans' 75-74 win over Northern Colorado last week.
 

The Series

Tuesday will be just the fourth meeting in the all-time series between these programs. San Jose State leads 2-1 with the Coyotes winning the last meeting between the teams, 76-62, on Dec. 17, 2017.
 

One Last Thing

Coyote assistant coach Eddie Hill returns to a program he once coached at in San Jose State. As the recruiting coordinator at SJSU, Hill brought in the nation's 17th-ranked recruiting class in 1999.