The Game

South Dakota women's basketball's three-game homestand continues with Bradley at 7 p.m. Monday night inside the Sanford Coyote Sports Center in Vermillion.
 
The game will be televised by Midco Sports with commentary from Jay Elsen and David Brown. That broadcast will also be available for streaming on espn+ and Midco Sports Plus. A free web stream will also be available right here on GoYotes.com. Fans can tune into the game on the Coyote Sports Network with Carter Woodiel, carried on KVHT 106.3 FM in Yankton/Vermillion or by using The Varsity Network app.
 

The Coyotes

It's a quick turnaround for South Dakota (4-4) following Saturday's hard-fought 71-59 win over Wichita State. Senior center Hannah Sjerven dropped a new career-high 35 points in that one. It marked the second-straight game with a Coyote over 30 points, following Chloe Lamb's own career-high game against Pitt in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Sjerven's output ranks 12th in the NCAA this season for a single-game high. Lamb and Sjerven pace the Coyotes with 16.5 points and 15.6 points, respectively. Fellow super-senior Liv Korngable joins them in double-figures with 12 points per game. The trio account for 70.6 percent of USD's scoring.
 

The Braves

Bradley (3-3) is making the program's first-ever road trip out to the Dakotas this weekend. The Braves started off at North Dakota State on Saturday night, falling 83-72 to the Bison. The Braves led by five at the halftime break, but a second-half surge by a Bison squad shooting 60 percent from the floor proved tough to match. Bradley's leading scorer Gabi Haack (19.0 ppg) dropped 22 points in the game and was joined by Daija Powell and Tatum Koenig in double-figures. The Braves' second-leading scorer Caroline Waite (14.0 ppg) missed the game with a non-COVID illness. Bradley has lost three-straight, all on the road, since the program's 64-57 win over the Big Ten's Wisconsin back on Nov. 19.
 

The Series

Monday night is the second-half of a home-and-home with Bradley. The Coyotes took round one 84-68 in Peoria last year behind a series of landmarks for The Big Three. Sjerven tallied a 31-point, 21-rebound performance for the first 30-20 game of the season. Korngable scored a career-high 24 points (which she has since tied twice) and Lamb surpassed 1,000 career points in the game.
 

One Last Thing

Sjerven is chasing down a spot in USD's top-10 career scoring charts. She moved to 11th last time out and sits 66 points away from bumping out Allison Arens (2015-19). Lamb is already inside the top-10 and continues to climb the charts as well.
 

The Program