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• South Dakota shot 55.6 percent from the floor, had a 20-13 scoring advantage off the bench and an 18-6 scoring advantage in fast-break situations.
• Culver-Stockton shot only 10 free throws for the game, making seven.
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• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Retail experts are predicting a strong holiday shopping season in the Dakotas despite a summer of drought, a forecast bolstered by long lines at stores in major cities throughout the two states on Black Friday and even earlier.
• Some stores opened on Thanksgiving, with many shoppers waiting at the doors to get in. Rebecca Kari, of Belle Fourche, snagged the first spot in line at a Sears store in Rapid City, S.D., on Thursday morning.
• "We're going to remember this long before we'd remember eating turkey at home," she told the Rapid City Journal.
• Rapid City police said they made more than a half dozen arrests at retail stores late Thursday and early Friday.
• Officers arrested a 25-year-old man for disorderly conduct Thursday night after a woman who was in line for bed sheets at Walmart reported that a man hit her on the head and grabbed the sheets. Police in the city made multiple other arrests, mostly on shoplifting charges.
• Crowds that gathered outside stores in the early morning hours of Friday endured chilly weather, with temperatures mainly in the teens.
• "We're nuts," Ashley Gaddis joked to KOKK radio outside a Kmart in Huron, S.D. But she encouraged others to take part in the holiday shopping tradition, saying, "Put your gloves on, get out there."
• In Fargo, North Dakota's largest city, bargain hunters dealt with the cold and also a couple of inches of fresh snow that fell Thursday.
• College student Lincoln Mousel and his two roommates dealt with the elements inside a tent they had set up outside a Best Buy store entrance on Tuesday night. The roommates and a friend they made waiting in line huddled under a pile of sleeping bags and blankets to keep warm.
• "The experience is absolutely terrible," Mousel told The Forum newspaper.
• Black Friday is named because it traditionally was the day when crowds would push stores into the black, or profitability.
• Mike Rud, president of the North Dakota Retail Association, told The Associated Press that he expects holiday sales in the state to be up 5-6 percent over last year.
• "We continue to have record years in energy (production). The agriculture sector

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