I'm looking forward to a competitive game with two coaches who have enough recent history to make it entertaining. OSU Coach Hoyt coached against SDSU's Aaron Johnston's teams for two seasons, 2020-21 and 2021-22, when Kansas City (UMKC) returned to the Summit League after spending three years in the WAC. Coach Johnston's Jackrabbits won all four conference games against Hoyt's Kansas City teams.
It can be argued that the Summit League had better teams when Hoyt was at Kansas City. Consider this: SDSU is undefeated in Summit League regular-season games for the past three years. That says something about the Jackrabbits but, unfortunately, also says a lot about the rest of the Summit League. I think the Jackrabbits can shift gears for the post season and will be prepared to play bigger, faster teams similar to some SDSU faced in its non-conference schedule. [Link to this season's results on GoJacks.com:
https://gojacks.com/sports/womens-basketball/schedule ]
The last non-conference game SDSU played before starting the Summit League schedule this season, was in Austin where Texas pounded on us, 103-57. We all know about how good Texas is but the Jacks were capable of giving them a better game -- we just stumbled in that one.