FRIDAY SPORTS, NOVEMBER 28, 2025
DAKOTA WESLEYAN
— Dakota Wesleyan women’s basketball has climbed to No. 14 in the latest NAIA coaches poll, moving up two spots after three straight GPAC wins, including a road victory over now eighth-ranked Briar Cliff. The Tigers, now 5-2 on the season, face three consecutive top-10 opponents: No. 4 Dakota State on Dec. 2, No. 9 Concordia on Dec. 6, and top-ranked Dordt on Dec. 10.
— No. Dakota Wesleyan women’s basketball defeated Briar Cliff 79-70 on Tuesday at the Corn Palace. DWU will be at Dakota State on Tuesday at 5 pm.
— Dakota Wesleyan men’s basketball lost at Briar Cliff on Tuesday 90-81 to fall to 5-4 on the season. DWU will be at Dakota State on Tuesday at 7 pm.
— Dakota Wesleyan volleyball will face Concordia (Neb.) on Wednesday at 7:30 pm, followed by The Master’s University on Thursday in pool play at the NAIA National Volleyball Tournament in Sioux City.
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE
— South Dakota State women’s basketball lost on Thursday to No. 12 North Carolina 83-48 at the Cancun Challenge to fall to 5-1 on the season. Brooklyn Meyer led the Jackrabbits with 16 points, four rebounds and three assists. Mahli Abdouch and Ellie Colbeck put up nine points apiece. SDSU turned the ball over 21 times and gave up 12 offensive rebounds. The Jacks were held to 33% shooting from the floor and hit just two 3-pointers. SDSU takes on Columbia today at 12:30 pm on day two of the Cancun Challenge. The Jackrabbit pregame show starts at Noon on KORN News Radio.
— South Dakota State men’s basketball lost to UC-Irvine on Wednesday 64-52 in the Cancun Challenge. Redshirt Freshman Trey Buchanan had a team-high 12 points off the bench as the Jacks shot just 31% from the field and 4-of-23 from three. SDSU, 4-4 on the season, will be at Northern Arizona on Wednesday at 7 pm.
— South Dakota State football returns to the postseason for the 14th straight year, hosting New Hampshire in the opening round of the FCS playoffs on Saturday at noon at Dykhouse Stadium. The 14th-seeded Jackrabbits enter at 8-4 after snapping a four-game skid last Saturday with a 34–31 overtime win at North Dakota. New Hampshire also sits at 8-4 and is on a current five-game winning streak. This is only the second meeting between the teams. The first came in 2017, when SDSU rolled to a 56–14 playoff win.
SOUTH DAKOTA
— USD redshirt sophomore running back L.J. Phillips Jr. has been named a finalist for the Walter Payton Award, the FCS equivalent of the Heisman Trophy. Phillips Jr. leads the Missouri Valley Football Conference in carries and rushing yards, finishing the regular season with 1,556 yards on 250 carries, averaging 6.2 yards per rush with 15 touchdowns. Phillips Jr. is one of 30 finalists for the award this season.
— USD women’s basketball improved to 7-0 on the season with a 73-41 home win on Tuesday vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff. The Coyotes will be at Wyoming on Sunday at 2 pm CST.
— USD men’s basketball takes on Air Force on Saturday at 3 pm in Rapid City.
— USD football earned the No. 11 seed in the FCS playoffs and will host Drake in a first-round game on Saturday at noon in the DakotaDome. The Coyotes, 8-4 and second in the MVFC, secured their fifth playoff berth and third straight appearance, and will host a postseason game for the fourth time.
NFL
— Dak Prescott threw for two touchdowns and Malik Davis had a 43-yard touchdown as the Dallas Cowboys overcame two fourth down TD’s from Patrick Mahomes in a 31-28 Thanksgiving victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. CeeDee Lamb scored the first Dallas touchdown and finished with 112 yards on seven catches. The Cowboys (6-5-1) have won three straight, knocking off both of last season’s Super Bowl teams in the past five days, dropping the Chiefs (6-6) back to .500. Mahomes had four touchdown passes.
— Jordan Love converted a pair of fourth downs with touchdown passes in the first half and finished with a career-high-matching four touchdown throws, leading the Green Bay Packers to a 31-24 win over the Detroit Lions. The Packers swept the season series to earn a potential tiebreaker in the NFC North. The Lions have lost three of their past five games and fall to 7-5 on the season. Meanwhile, Green Bay improved to 8-3-1 on the season and can move into first place in the division if the Chicago Bears lose today to the Philadelphia Eagles. The Bears and Eagles play at 2 pm on Amazon Prime Video.
— Joe Burrow threw two second-half touchdown passes in his return for Cincinnati as the Bengals snapped Baltimore’s five-game winning streak with a 32-14 victory. Baltimore lost three fumbles in the first half and turned the ball over five times in the game. Bengals WR Ja’Marr Chased had seven catches for 110 yards, while Burrow was 24-of-46 for 261 yards and two scores. Meanwhile, Ravens QB Lamar Jackson struggled going 17-of-32 for 246 yards with a interception. The Pittsburgh Steelers take over first place in the AFC North with a 6-5 record, a half game better than Baltimore and 2 ½ games better than Cincinnati.
— Denver’s Alex Singleton is back on the football field less than three weeks after surgery for a cancerous testicular tumor. The Broncos leading tackler aims to play against Washington this weekend. Singleton learned of his condition after a random NFL drug test showed elevated hormone levels. He had surgery following a game against the Raiders. Singleton missed only one game.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
— Missouri and Eli Drinkwitz have agreed to a new six-year contract, boosting the football coach’s average pay to $10.75 million annually. The deal announced Thursday follows a unanimous vote by the University of Missouri Board a day earlier. Drinkwitz has been with Missouri since December 2019, leading the Tigers to a bowl game in each of his first five seasons. Missouri is 7-4 this season after going 10-3 in 2024.
NBA
— Warriors star Steph Curry will be sidelined for at least a week with a right quadriceps bruise and strained muscle after getting injured during Golden State’s 104-100 loss to Houston on Wednesday. He had an MRI exam after the game and the Warriors said Curry would be reevaluated in a week, meaning he likely will miss at least three games. The 37-year-old Curry is averaging 27 ppg during his 17th NBA season.
GOLF
— Masters and U.S. Open champion Fuzzy Zoeller has died at the age of 74. Zoeller was one of golf’s most gregarious characters and great champions. But his career was tainted by a racially insensitive joke he made about Tiger Woods at the 1997 Masters. Woods was on his way to the most dominant victory in Augusta National history. Zoeller in a CNN interview jokingly said for Woods not to serve fried chicken at the Masters Club dinner. He apologized. He says he got death threats. He said years later he had come to realize that moment would never go away.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL – THURSDAY
No. 4 Duke 80, No. 22 Arkansas 71
No. 9 BYU 72, Miami 62
TCU 84, No. 10 Florida
No. 11 Michigan State 74, No. 16 North Carolina 58
No. 13 Illinois vs. No. 5 UConn, 11:30 am on FOX, Madison Square Garden, Friday
COLLEGE FOOTBALL – THURSDAY
Navy 28, Memphis 17 – Navy improves to 9-2 on the season and keeps its slim playoff hopes alive. Navy needs a loss on Saturday for either North Texas or Tulane to reach next week’s AAC conference championship game.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL – FRIDAY
Mississippi State vs. No. 7 Ole Miss – 11 am on ABC
Kansas vs. No. 13 Utah – 11 am on ESPN
Nebraska vs. Iowa – 11 am on CBS
No. 23 Georgia Tech vs. No. 4 Georgia – 2:30 pm on ABC
Purdue vs. No. 2 Indiana, 6:30 pm on NBC
No. 16 Texas vs. No. 3 Texas A&M, 6:30 pm on ABC
No. 20 Arizona State vs. No. 25 Arizona, 8 pm on FOX
COLLEGE FOOTBALL – SATURDAY
No. 15 Michigan vs. No. 1 Ohio State, 11 am on FOX
West Virginia vs. No. 5 Texas Tech, 11 am on ESPN
No. 22 Pittsburgh vs. No. 12 Miami, 11 am on ABC
Washington vs. No. 6 Oregon, 2:30 pm on CBS
No. 8 Oklahoma vs. LSU, 2:30 pm on ABC
No. 19 Tennessee vs. No. 14 Vanderbilt, 2:30 pm on ESPN
Minnesota vs. Wisconsin, 2:30 pm on FS1
Auburn vs. No. 10 Alabama, 6:30 pm on ABC
Stanford vs. No. 9 Notre Dame, 9:30 pm on ESPN
NFL – SUNDAY
Indianapolis Colts vs. Houston Texans, Noon on CBS
Seattle Seahawks vs. Minnesota Vikings, 3 pm on FOX
Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Buffalo Bills, 3:25 pm on CBS
Washington Commanders vs. Denver Broncos, 7:20 pm on NBC
New England Patriots vs. New York Giants, 7:15 pm on ESPN, Monday Night Football