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• Megan Waytashek had 11 points and seven rebounds for South Dakota State (25-7), which shot just 29.1 percent from the field. Gabrielle Boever led a strong defensive effort, finishing with seven steals.
• "I thought she was great today," Jackrabbits coach Aaron Johnston said, praising Boever's performance.
• Nicole Seekamp led South Dakota (17-15) with 20 points, and Tempestt Wilson had 10. The Coyotes shot 36.8 percent.
• South Dakota had a chance to tie it late in the game, but Alexis Yackley missed a 3-pointer in the closing seconds.
• "It was just kind of like a boxing match the whole entire night, and time just ran out on us," Yackley said.
• Eide was 5 for 6 from the line, and Boever also had nine points and two assists.
• "Everyone knows everybody's stuff," Eide said of the familiarity with the teams in the league. "It comes down to who can do it better and who can gut it out."
• Sioux Falls Arena is the midway point between South Dakota State's campus in Brookings and South Dakota's home of Vermillion, but the Jackrabbits had much more support in the women's tournament record crowd of 6,153.
• The last time the two teams met for a postseason title was in 2003, when the Jackrabbits topped the Coyotes 87-63 in the Division II North Central Regional in Brookings. South Dakota State went on to win the Division II championship 65-50 over Northern Kentucky.
• South Dakota State improved to a perfect 15-0 in Summit League tournament play.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard is asking the National Park Service to let the state run the campground at Wind Cave National Park.
• The federal agency has said that the 64-site Elk Mountain Campground would be closed through the 2013 season because of budget cuts.
• Daugaard says in a letter to National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis that the state "would be pleased" to operate the campground this year.
• The Republican governor says he believes the state could make money on the facility because 6,600 people camped there last year.
• Republican U.S. Sen. John Thune from South Dakota had earlier sent a letter to Jarvis questioning whether the park service is playing politics by intentionally trying to make the cuts more visible to the public.

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