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• With the game tied at 78, Yon's 3-pointer capped his scoring and gave Air Force (4-4) an 81-78 lead with 3:03 remaining. Hayden Graham and Marek Olesinski followed with back-to-back 3-pointers to stretch the Falcon lead to 87-80 with 1:32 to play. Tre' Coggins made six straight free throws, and Nick Jorgensen hit 1 of 2 from the line to cap the scoring for Air Force.
• Yon had a game-high five assists. Olesinski scored 19 points and grabbed a game-high eight rebounds.
• The game was tied six times in the second half.
• South Dakota (4-4) was led by Casey Kasperbauer, who made a game-high six 3-pointers to go with his 20 points.
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Oil crews endure even when wind chill drops to -40
JAMES MacPHERSON, Associated Press
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- With the wind chill falling to almost minus 40, Steve Hendershot's mind was elsewhere Thursday as he and his crew of roustabouts worked a well in North Dakota's booming oil patch.
• On palm trees and beaches, in fact.
• "Sometimes you just got to close your eyes and dream of a warm, happy place," said Hendershot, working near Souris. "I'm doing that today."
• The cold weather sweeping the Plains wasn't cooling off work in the oil patch, which moves forward in all kinds of weather. But even hardened oilmen were taking note of the dangerous conditions that were expected to keep daily highs below zero until Sunday.
• A powerful winter storm that slammed much of the nation kept intensifying Thursday, draping many communities in skin-stinging cold. The system dumped 1 to 2 feet of snow in parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin, forcing school closures and temporary power outages and delighting skiers who hit the slopes despite temperatures in the single digits.
• The south-central U.S. braced for the next blow, expected to come Friday in the form of sleet and ice that could imperil millions unaccustomed to the treacherous combination of moisture and bitter cold.
• In Montana, temperatures fell as low as minus 26 in Great Falls and minus 27 in Havre, both records. In parts of the Rockies and Northern Plains, wind made those conditions feel even colder.
• The deep freeze, blamed on the jet stream's move southward, was expected to linger at least through the weekend.
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