Happy Hour with John Gaskins

Here we go again.
 
The South Dakota State women's basketball team won its 13th Summit League Tournament championship in the 18 years of the event in Sioux Falls on Sunday, and this leaves some fans outside the state crying over spilled basketballs.
 
Those would be the four North Dakota State turnovers in the final two minutes that helped the Jackrabbits stave off the regular season champions down the stretch 64-51.
 
Some Bison fans — and other fans outside South Dakota's borders — are tired of seeing SDSU hoist the trophy, powered by the blue tidal wave of fans who make every Jacks game in the SLT a road game for the opponent.
 
Is it fair? How much of the Jacks' success actually has to do with the home cooking?
 
The Happy Hour host dives into the performances by both teams in Sunday's game and the history of both the women's and men's tourney in Sioux Falls that points to the real reason the SDSU women usually come out on top.
 
Then, CBS Sports Network Missy Heidrick, who was on the call for Sunday's game, gives an astute basketball mind's view of how SDSU beat NDSU and how tourney MVP Brooklyn Meyer won the "game within the game" against Avery Koenen.
 
Heidrick weighs in on the "home court" topic and if the Summit League should consider hosting the tournament somewhere else. She also breaks down why the North Dakota State men won their sixth Summit tourney title, but NDSU's first in six years.

Heidrick, who was on the call for Sunday's game, gives an astute basketball mind's view of how SDSU beat NDSU and how tourney MVP Brooklyn Meyer won the "game within the game" against Avery Koenen.
 
Heidrick weighs in on the "home court" topic and if the Summit League should consider hosting the tournament somewhere else. She also breaks down why the North Dakota State men won their sixth Summit tourney title, but NDSU's first in six years.

Here we go again.
 
The South Dakota State women's basketball team won its 13th Summit League Tournament championship in the 18 years of the event in Sioux Falls on Sunday, and this leaves some fans outside the state crying over spilled basketballs.
 
Those would be the four North Dakota State turnovers in the final two minutes that helped the Jackrabbits stave off the regular season champions down the stretch 64-51.
 
Some Bison fans — and other fans outside South Dakota's borders — are tired of seeing SDSU hoist the trophy, powered by the blue tidal wave of fans who make every Jacks game in the SLT a road game for the opponent.
 
Is it fair? How much of the Jacks' success actually has to do with the home cooking?
 
The Happy Hour host dives into the performances by both teams in Sunday's game and the history of both the women's and men's tourney in Sioux Falls that points to the real reason the SDSU women usually come out on top.

Champiomship Sunday became "Sunday the 13th" for the South Dakota State womem's basketball team.
 
The Jackrabbits won their 13th Summit League Tournament title and clinched their 14th NCAA Tournament berth in the 18 times the event has been held in Sioux Falls.
 
After the postgame confetti had fallen to the floor and the nearly 8,000 fans had filed out of the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center, the Happy Hour Jackrabbit Lounge panel gave its final breakdown of the event. 
 
John Gaskins, Matt Zimmer, Marcus Traxler, and Zach Borg describe how and why SDSU took Round 3 and the rubber match of their season series with regular season champion North Dakota State.
 
There was the game within the game, with Jacks senior Brooklyn Meyee getting the better of conference Player of the Year Avery Koenen. There was the Jackrabbit defense that held the league's offense to 51 points, 29 below the Bison's average.
 
Enjoy one-on-one chats with seniors Meyer and Maddie Matheowitz. 
 
The postgame press conference clip of 26th year head coach Aaron Johnston might drop your jaw, considering his stoic nature. What question made his tears flow?
 
And what now?
 
How equipped is SDSU to win one or more NCAA Tournament games and what seed may we expect?

The SDSU women are heading back to the Summit League Tournament title game after defeating the USD Coyotes in the semifinal.