SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - Believe it or not, the college basketball season is just around the corner. Teams in the Summit League are in the final phases of their offseason prep.

South Dakota State is starting the season with a new head coach in Bryan Petersen, who’s been an assistant for the Jackrabbits for the past six years. He inherits a program that bowed out in the first round of the Summit League Tournament last year to North Dakota.

South Dakota, meanwhile, returns for the fourth year under head coach Eric Peterson’s direction. The Coyotes made it to the semifinals of the Summit League Tournament last year, getting knocked out by Omaha.

Both programs know they have a lot of work this season to make it back to the top of the Summit.

“As games get closer and closer, we

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