South Dakota is set to compete in the Las Vegas Holiday Classic Friday and Saturday at Orleans Arena. The Coyotes will face Santa Clara Friday and Fordham Saturday. Both games will tipoff at 11 a.m. local time, 1 p.m. CT.
 
How to Watch
The event is providing a live stream of the tournament for $25. No announcers are provided in the stream. Navigate here for information.
 
How to Listen
Carter Woodiel from the Coyote Sports Network is on the trip and is providing a radio broadcast. You can listen to Friday's game here and Saturday's game here.
 
The Coyotes
South Dakota is in Las Vegas for the first time since 2019 when the Coyotes defeated Ohio State and Northern Illinois over the holiday. USD enters with a 4-1 record that includes road wins at Bradley and Saint Louis. The Coyotes are in the midst of their longest road trip of the season. The team travels to Northern Colorado Dec. 2 before returning home for a mid-major showdown with Drake on Dec. 6.
 
Point guard Grace Larkins leads the team in scoring, rebounding, assists and steals. Alexi Hempe and Madison Grange have added 11 points per game to this point. Senior Jeniah Ugofsky is coming off a career-best 13-points in Sunday's win at Saint Louis.
 
The Coyotes are shooting 43 percent from beyond the arc, which ranks sixth nationally, and USD is making 10 3-pointers per game. Defensively, the team has allowed an average of 64 points to its three Division I foes. USD has outrebounded all five of its opponents.
 
Santa Clara
Santa Clara moved to 3-3 Tuesday night with a 35-point home win against Kansas City. The Broncos made 15 three-pointers, the second-most in program history, and shot better than 50 percent from the field for the first time this season.
 
Santa Clara was 16-15 last year, marking the program's second consecutive winning season. The Broncos have added several new pieces including top performers Tess Heal, Ayzhiana Basallo and Olivia Pollerd. Heal is a freshman guard from Melbourne, Australia, leading the team in scoring and assists. Basallo competed for Arizona State last season while Pollerd played sparingly for Washington a year ago. Nine Santa Clara players are averaging double-digit minutes through six games.
 
Fordham
Candice Green, an assistant at Fordham since 2019, was named interim head coach this past July following the departure of Stephanie Gaitley, the program's winningest coach who spent 11 seasons in the Bronx. Green inherits a senior-laden ball club back from an 18-11 campaign a year ago. The Rams (3-2) have already gone toe-to-toe with nationally-ranked Maryland (L, 83-76) and a solid Princeton squad (L, 70-67).
 
Anna DeWolfe is a two-time, first-team all-Atlantic 10 honoree who was co-Player of the Year two seasons ago. DeWolfe and another all-conference honoree, Asiah Dingle, both average better than 16 points per game. Kaitlyn Downey is averaging 15 points and 10 rebounds.