South Dakota hosts Denver at 1 p.m. Saturday inside the Sanford Coyote Sports Center for its final home game of the regular season. It is also the annual Pink Game as USD athletics promotes breast cancer awareness. The Coyotes are coming off a 61-41 win against Omaha Thursday and stand one game back of second place North Dakota and North Dakota State in the Summit League standings with three games to go.
 
USD will honor three seniors – Macy Guebert, Jeniah Ugofsky and Allison Peplowski – in a pregame ceremony. The program is also auctioning off three pink jerseys -- #3, #30 and #35 – to raise money for Dakota Hospital Foundation, a non-profit organization in Vermillion. Bidding is active until 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Click here to place your bid!
 
How to Watch: The game is being televised by Midco Sports 2 and that broadcast will be carried on Midco Sports Plus and ESPN+. A free stream of the game can be found at GoYotes.com/watch.
 
How to Listen: Carter Woodiel from the Coyote Sports Network is providing a radio broadcast for 101.5 FM/1570 AM in Yankton and Vermillion. A link to that broadcast is here.
 
The Coyotes
South Dakota forced 20 turnovers and came up with a season-high 15 steals in Thursday's win. Grace Larkins and Walker Demers scored 14 and 11 points, respectively, and both game within a rebound of a double-double. Larkins had a career-high six steals and also had four assists.
 
Larkins had 17 points, 11 rebounds, nine assists and four steals in a 59-50 win at Denver back on Jan. 23. Carley Duffney added 17 points. South Dakota outrebounded Denver 39-27 and didn't allow a second-chance point.
 
The Pioneers
Denver had won four of its last five before running into South Dakota State Thursday. All four of those wins came by at least nine points. The Pioneers put up 27 three-point shots a game on average and typically make 8-9. They made 9-of-27 against USD in round one, but were 3-of-25 in Brookings Thursday.
 
Emma Smith is a true freshman and Denver's leading scorer at close to 13 points per game. The Pioneers have a Summit Defensive Player of the Year candidate in Makayla Minett who has blocked 66 shots this season – seventh-most nationally – and is the second-leading rebounder in the conference.
 
All-Girls Sports Clinic
South Dakota is hosting its sixth-annual all-girls sports clinic Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon inside the DakotaDome. The free clinic is open to all girls in grades K-6. More information on the camp is here. Email Jarren.Duffy@usd.edu to RSVP including the parent's name, participant's name and grade of the participant in the email.