Malika Glover joined the Coyote women's basketball staff as a video coordinator on Aug. 26, 2019.
In her first season at South Dakota, the Coyotes compiled a 30-2 record, swept the Summit League regular season and won the Summit League Tournament to qualify for the 2020 NCAA Tournament.
Working on the staff of three-time Summit League Coach of the Year Dawn Plitzuweit, Glover helped her become the fastest Summit League coach to reach 100 wins in just 124 games.
The Coyotes bulldozed their way through history in 2020. South Dakota achieved the highest national ranking bestowed upon a Summit team, coming in at No. 11 in the final USA Today Coaches Poll. South Dakota also ranked No. 17 in the Associated Press poll. USD set Summit League records during the season for weeks in both polls with 16 weeks in the coaches’ poll and 12 weeks in the AP poll. The Coyotes also broke a program record for regular season wins with 27. South Dakota became the first program to go undefeated in the Summit League regular season and win the Summit League Tournament.
In the 28 years of the Summit League’s history, only three teams have ever run the table during the regular season. Two of those three teams were the Coyotes – in 2018 and 2020. The squad in 2020 routed league opponents by an average of 32 points per game.
The Coyotes finished the 2019-20 season with a 30-2 record with both its nonconference losses to ranked opponents – No. 1 South Carolina and No. 23 Missouri State in the final Associated Press poll. South Dakota recorded its sixth-straight 20-win season and qualified for its 10th consecutive postseason appearance, albeit the impressive season was cut short by the cancellation of the 2020 NCAA Tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Glover reunited with former head coach Dawn Plitzuweit, who she played under for three seasons at Northern Kentucky (2012-15). With the Norse, Glover was the President of the Atlantic Sun Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (A-Sun SAAC) in 2015 and the organization's secretary in 2014. She received the 2015 Dr. Leon Booth Most Inspirational Award and was involved in a pair of University search committees during her time as a student-athlete.
Glover earned her bachelor's degree from Northern Kentucky in 2014 and completed her master's degree in public administration in 2016.
A native of East Lansing, Michigan, Glover has taken four service trips since 2012 to the Ukraine, Moldova, Togo and Belize. She also worked with Hand-in-Hand Ministries in Louisville, Kentucky, as a program coordinator.
