DES MOINES, Iowa – The Drake University women's basketball team hosts South Dakota Thursday in the team's home opener. Tipoff at the Knapp Center is set for 6 p.m. and all of the Bulldogs' night contests this season will tip at 6 p.m. The game will be broadcast locally on Mediacom/MC 22 and digitally on ESPN3.
Drake (2-0) starts its home slate against a familiar regional rival in South Dakota (2-0). The Bulldogs and the Coyotes first played each other in 1979, but didn't play again until the first round of the 2012 WNIT. Drake won the first four meetings in the series, but South Dakota has won four of the past five games, including a pair of victories in Des Moines.