Articles by Travis Kriens

Class B Girls State Tournament, Thursday, March 13th in Huron No. 1 Centerville 51, No. 8 Deubrook Area 46 Izzie Eide had a game-high 22 points for Centerville, while Emma Marshall added 15 points and [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS – The South Dakota State women’s basketball team won its 12th Summit League Tournament title Sunday afternoon with an 84-68 win over No. 2 Oral Roberts at the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center. Paige Meyer led [Read More…]

Mitchell junior Addie Siemsen has been named to the 2025 ESD Girls Basketball All-Conference Team. Siemsen leads the Kernels averaging 12.7 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.5 steals per game. She was named to all-ESD team [Read More…]

Mitchell seniors Markus Talley and Gavin Hinker have been named to the 2025 ESD Boys Basketball All-Conference Team. Talley leads the Kernels averaging 17.5 points per game and 3.1 assists, along with 4.5 rebounds. Hinker [Read More…]

Class AA Boys Basketball SoDAK 16 – Saturday, March 8 No. 1 SF Lincoln 48, No. 16 Yankton 26 No. 2 Brandon Valley 53, No. 15 Pierre 42 No. 3 Harrisburg 70, No. 14 Rapid [Read More…]

Class A Boys Basketball SoDAK 16 – Tuesday, March 11 Winners advance to the Class A State Tournament in Sioux Falls, March 20-22 No. 1 Sioux Falls Christian (20-1) vs. No. 16 McCook Central/Montrose (12-10), [Read More…]

Class B Boys Basketball SoDAK 16 – Tuesday, March 11 Winners advance to the Class B State Tournament in Aberdeen, March 20-22 No. 1 Castlewood (20-2) vs. No. 16 Ipswich (14-8), 5:30 pm at Watertown [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The South Dakota basketball team fell to the No. 1 seeded Omaha Mavericks Saturday night 100-75 in the Summit League Tournament Semifinals inside the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center. Chase Forte had a team [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – The top-seeded South Dakota state women’s basketball team led wire-to-wire and rolled past No. 5 North Dakota, 84-55, Saturday afternoon in the semifinal round of the Summit League Tournament at the Denny [Read More…]

MITCHELL, S.D. – Four members of the Tigers men’s basketball team have earned All-Conference GPAC honors, as selected by the conference’s coaches. Senior Tampa Scott IV led the way with a First-Team selection, while fellow senior Samuel Aslesen was named [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – North Dakota’s Treysen Eaglestaff scored a Summit League Tournament record 51 points as he carried the Fighting Hawks to an 85-69 victory over South Dakota State on Friday, March 7, in the [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – The South Dakota State women’s basketball team used a big second quarter to surge by Omaha Thursday afternoon in the quarterfinal round of the Summit League Tournament at the Denny Sanford PREMIER [Read More…]

MITCHELL, S.D. – Four Tigers have earned All-GPAC recognition as voted on by the conference coaches, with Emma Yost and Rylee Rosenquist leading the way as First-Team selections. Avery Broughton was named to the Second Team, while Shalayne Nagel received Honorable Mention honors. Rylee [Read More…]

Class AA Girls Basketball SoDAK 16 – Friday, March 7 No. 1 O’Gorman 56, No. 16 Sturgis 32 No. 2 Brandon Valley 69, No. 15 Watertown 31 No. 3 SF Washington 59, No. 4 Tea [Read More…]

Class A Girls Basketball SoDAK 16 – Thursday, March 6 No. 1 Sioux Falls Christian 60, No. 16 Rapid City Christian 44 No. 2 Dakota Valley 53, No. 15 West Central 52 No. 3 Hamlin [Read More…]

Class B Girls Basketball SoDAK 16 – Thursday, March 6 No. 1 Centerville 63, No. 16 Faulkton Area 38 No. 2 Harding County 63, No. 15 De Smet 32 No. 3 Lyman 56, No. 14 [Read More…]

Travis Kriens, KORN News Radio Sports Director March in South Dakota; the beginning of the spring thaw, state basketball tournaments, and the annual sports debates about how the state basketball field should be decided, where [Read More…]

Mitchell, S.D. – Temuujin Mindbileg and Zachary Zitek of the Dakota Wesleyan Men’s Wrestling Program head to Park City, Kansas, this week to compete in the 68th Annual Men’s Wrestling National Championship. Temuujin Mendbileg (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, [Read More…]

The South Dakota Prep Media Basketball polls for the week of March 3 are listed below, ranking the top-five teams in each class, record, total points and previous ranking. First-place votes received are indicated in [Read More…]

Class AA Girls SoDAK 16 – Friday, March 7 Winners advance to the state tournament in Rapid City, March 13-15 No. 1 O’Gorman (20-0) vs. No. 16 Sturgis (10-10) – 6 pm No. 2 Brandon [Read More…]