{"id":290909,"date":"2025-02-17T10:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T16:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=290909"},"modified":"2025-02-17T10:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T16:57:12","slug":"vcsu-defeat-dakota-state-university-78-68-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=290909","title":{"rendered":"VCSU Defeat Dakota State University 78-68 on the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MADISON, S.D. \u2013 Valley City State University men’s basketball\u00a0took down Dakota State University, 78-68 in Madison, S.D. Saturday night, marking its third straight conference victory.\u00a0The Vikings improve to 14-12 overall and 5-9 in NSAA conference games. The Trojans fall to 11-14 on the season and 4-9 in the conference.\u00a0
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Dakota State got out to a quick start earning 5-0 lead in the first minute after a Brayden Pankonen three. The Vikings quickly responded tying the game at 7-7 with 16 minutes remaining in the half. VCSU capped off a 9-2 run with a\u00a0Sam Kobbervig<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0three making it 16-9.
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The Vikings held a steady lead for the remainder of the half, growing the lead to from 38-32 to 43-32 in the last minute of the half thanks to a pair of free throws from\u00a0Jerome Washington<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0and a three pointer from\u00a0Shaheed Muhammad<\/a><\/dfn>.
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At the half the Vikings shot 15-28 from the field, 5-9 from the three-point line, and 8-8 from the free throw line. The Vikings were led\u00a0Sam Kobbervig<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0and\u00a0Shaheed Muhammad<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0both earning 11 points.
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Dakota State shot 13-26 from the field, 4-9 from the three-point line, and 2-5 from the free throw line. The Trojans were led by Jansen Aiden with nine points and one block.
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The Vikings added to their\u00a0halftime lead going 18 points up at 63-45 with 8:59 left in the contest. Down the stretch, Dakota State narrowed the gap to seven at 75-68 with 51 seconds remaining, but it was too little too late. The Vikings closed out the game knocking down 7-of-11 free throws over the final 2:30 to finish with the 78-68 win.
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The Vikings we led by\u00a0Sam Kobbervig<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0earning a career high 19 points, shooting 4-for-5 from beyond the arc.\u00a0Tyrel Creger<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0followed with 15 points, five rebounds, and four assists.\u00a0Shaheed Muhammad<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0had 14 points, six assists, and seven rebounds. The Vikings shot 26-54 from the field, 9-20 from the three-point line, and 17-23 from the free throw line.
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Dakota State was led by Brayden Pankonen with 17 points and two steals. He was followed by Aiden Jansen with 16 points and five rebounds. As a team they shot 23-59 from the field, 7-28 from the three-point line, and 15-21 from the free throw line.
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UP NEXT:\u00a0<\/strong>The Vikings will close out the 2024-25 regular season at Mayville State University on Friday, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MADISON, S.D. \u2013 Valley City State University men’s basketball\u00a0took down Dakota State University, 78-68 in Madison, S.D. Saturday night, marking its third straight conference victory.\u00a0The Vikings improve to 14-12 overall and 5-9 in NSAA conference games. The Trojans fall to 11-14 on the season and 4-9 in the conference.\u00a0\u00a0Dakota State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":290910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290911,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290909\/revisions\/290911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/290910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}