SDSU Sports Information<\/p>\n
SIOUX FALLS \u2013 South Dakota State will serve as the headliner for the second consecutive year of a nationally-publicized event in college basketball. The Jackrabbits are scheduled to take part in The Field of 68 Opening Day Marathon on Monday, Nov. 3, when SDSU faces Merrimack at 8 p.m. CT in the Sanford Pentagon. <\/p>\n
A year after being part of a trio of games in the Field of 68\u2019s inaugural event in 2024, South Dakota State will be the late game within a marathon slate of programming that includes six games across three venues.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re fired up to be at the Pentagon and to be in the Field of 68 Opening Day Marathon,\u201d said SDSU head coach Bryan Petersen. \u201cWe experienced it last year and our players absolutely loved the event.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 2024-25 Jackrabbits opened their campaign last season by defeating McNeese State, 80-73, inside the Sanford Pentagon. That Cowboy squad went on to defend its Southland Conference championship and eventually won its opening round game in the NCAA Tournament against Clemson. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are honored to be involved in this event, which as some of the elite programs in the country that exist outside the sport\u2019s traditional power structure,\u201d Field of 68 founder Rob Dauster said. \u201cThis is a great opportunity for us to be able to provide more coverage of these teams that frankly don\u2019t get enough. What we do at the Field of 68 is try and give teams at all levels the coverage they deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n
Three matchups take place in Rock Hill, S.C., while three others are set to be played in Sioux Falls. The other two games in the Pentagon begin with a meeting between Murray State and Omaha, followed by Drake and Northern Arizona. <\/p>\n
Tickets go on sale on Sept. 5 at Ticketmaster.com for the games in Sioux Falls. The games will be broadcast on The Field of 68\u2019s YouTube channel and X feeds, and the network\u2019s popular After Dark show will be broadcast live with a set at both venues. <\/p>\n
SDSU\u2019s meeting against Merrimack will be the first between the two programs. The Warriors went 18-15 overall last season. Merrimack took second in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference with a 14-6 league record before the Warriors fell in their tournament semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SDSU Sports Information SIOUX FALLS \u2013 South Dakota State will serve as the headliner for the second consecutive…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":104107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,10056,10050,10049,10051,2879,10054,10053,728,1317,1337,1338,10055,1124,62,10052,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-104106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bobcats","10":"tag-brookings","11":"tag-brookings-register","12":"tag-community-updates","13":"tag-events","14":"tag-jackrabbits","15":"tag-local-information","16":"tag-local-news","17":"tag-ncaa","18":"tag-ncaa-basketball","19":"tag-ncaabasketball","20":"tag-sdsu","21":"tag-south-dakota","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-sports-coverage","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114940784432216614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}