SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - Just like that we have hit the college basketball season.

The first regular season games for the division one teams in South Dakota will be played tomorrow.

For the second season in a row the South Dakota State men’s basketball team will open their season at the Sanford Pentagon.

But for the first time ever they will play against Merrimack College.

Bryan Petersen said, “I know a lot of people in the midwest don’t know a whole lot about Merrimack but they’re really good. And they have been very good over the last three or four years and they play a very unique style they have a zone that a lot of people in the country run, they call it the Merrimack zone so it’s a very aggressive style of zone, they force turnovers, they try to take away your threes

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