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Summit League and be an NCAA tournament participant. They're very similar to Eastern Kentucky and Belmont, teams like that in our league that can spread you out and have skilled players at all positions that can make shots."
• The Jackrabbits led 54-46 before three consecutive dunks from Wilson and Daniel pushed Murray State within two points with 10 minutes to go and sparked the game-ending run.
• "We haven't experienced a ball club of kids like we played tonight," South Dakota State coach Scott Nagy said. "Usually when teams make runs we're able to hold them off and score and I usually have to call timeouts after we score but we just couldn't get a bucket to call a timeout."
• Nate Wolters led the Jackrabbits with 18 points and five assists.
• The Jackrabbits, who led 39-33 at the break, opened the second half with an 8-0 run before Murray State's Canaan and Dexter Fields each drained 3s to make the score 47-40 nearly 4 minutes into the frame.
• The Racers first 13 points in the second half came from 3s, including Canaan's four-point play.
• "Most of the points (Murray State) got was in transition and that's my fault," Nagy said. "I was super pleased with our players' effort and there's a lot of times I'm not, but I can't fault our players tonight."
• Back-to-back layups from Daniel gave the Racers a 57-56 lead, its first since 8:54 of the first half. A dunk by C.J. Ford increased the advantage to three.
• "(In the second half) they started pressing the ball a lot more," South Dakota State guard Chad White said. "We need to start taking care of the ball a little bit more and I take responsibility for a lot of my turnovers."
• As the shot clock buzzed, Jeffery Moss hit a 3 to push Murray State's lead to 62-56 with 7:06 on the clock.
• A jumper by Wolters with 4:06 remaining ended the Jackrabbits' 5-minute drought, but it wasn't enough to stop the Racers.
• Wolters and Canaan, who both wear No. 3, went head to head for the first time as two of the top guards in college basketball.
• "(Wolters) is a great player and he did whatever he could for his team," Canaan said. "They're a good team. They don't do anything to kill themselves and we kind of did a little bit to wear them down in the end."
• Wolters, the only player in Division I men's basketball to average at least 20 points, five rebounds and five assists per game in the 2011-12 season, scored his first points of the game through free throws 4 minutes in.
• As the first half ticked down, Wolters connected on three consecutive shots and

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