The Game

South Dakota women's basketball wraps up its three-game road stretch at North Dakota State Thursday at 7 p.m. inside the Scheels Center in Fargo, North Dakota.
 
The game will be televised by WDAY with the broadcast streamed live on the Summit League Network available via the Midco Sports Plus app. Fans can also tune into the game on the Coyote Sports Network with Jerry Palleschi on KVTK 101.5 in Yankton/Vermillion or by using the Varsity Network app.

The Coyotes

South Dakota (19-10, 8-6 Summit) is already locked into the No. 4 seed for the upcoming Summit League Tournament, but the Coyotes look to build momentum headed into the tournament. South Dakota is one win shy of recording the program's eighth 20-win season in the last 10 years.
 
Junior guard Grace Larkins leads the Coyotes across the board in points (15.6), rebounding (7.3) and assists (5.1). Fourth-year junior guard Kendall Holmes recorded her fourth game of five made 3-pointers this season at Oral Roberts on Saturday. She leads the Summit in three-pointers made with 63. Third-year sophomore Carley Duffney has averaged 10.7 points while shooting 43 percent from the field during the month of February.
 

The Bison

North Dakota State (18-9, 12-2 Summit) enters the week on a seven-game winning streak, the longest for the Bison since the 2004-05 season.
 
The Bison rank ninth nationally in 3-point percentage, shooting 38.2 percent behind the arc. Elle Evans is shooting threes at a 45 percent clip individually for seventh nationally. She ranks second in Summit League play for scoring at 19.1 points per game. A four-year starter for the Bison, Heaven Hamling is the leading scorer in NDSU's Division I era and ranks fifth all-time on the Bison scoring list. Hamling's averaging 16 points per game in league play.
 

The Series

North Dakota State leads the all-time series with South Dakota 45-38. The Bison won the first meeting of the season 84-69 in Vermillion back in December.
 

Up Next

Senior Day for the Coyotes is set for 2 p.m. Saturday against North Dakota inside the Sanford Coyote Sports Center in Vermillion, South Dakota.