SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Ten days into the college basketball season and some Summit League players are proving their worth in a number of individual categories. Denver is off to a 2-1 start and Stanford transfer Lukas Kisunas has proven to be a nice addition for head coach Jeff Wulbrun.

The 6-foot-10 transfer is 16-for-19 from the field and his 84.1 field goal percentage is among the top five marks in all of Division I basketball. He leads a quartet of Pioneers averaging double figures with a 13.0 ppg clip. Kisunas and his Pioneer teammates hit the road for the first time with their third matchup against a Big Sky foe at Idaho State.

Defensively, Kansas City's Shemarri Allen and Oral Roberts' Connor Vanover top the DI charts in steals and blocks, respectively. Allen has 16 total swipes in five games for the Roos, while the 7-foot-3 Vanover has 16 total blocks.

The Roos and Golden Eagles will both be in action in the coming days as we move into Thanksgiving Week.

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TEAM TRACKER
DENVER PIONEERS (2-1; 0-0 SL) | @DU_MensHoops
Next Up:  at Idaho State (11/18; 7 p.m. MT); vs. IUPUI (11/23; 2 p.m. CT, New Orleans, La.)
Previous Games:  Idaho (W, 68-63); Colorado College (W, 90-68), Sacramento State (L, 73-69) 
After three straight home games to start the season, the Pioneers take to the road for the first time with a matchup at Idaho State ... The Bengals will be the third Big Sky foe that DU has faced this season ... The Pioneers split the two previous matchups, outlasting Idaho 68-63 in their season opener before falling 73-69 to Sacramento State on Nov. 14 ... DU had a quartet of players average double figures during the season-opening homestand ... Stanford transfer Lukas Kisunas is shooting 84.2 percent from the field (16-for-19) through his first three games as a Pioneer - that ranks fourth nationally ... He has made at least five field goals in every games and missed only once from the field in each tilt and led the team with a 13.0 ppg clip ... Tevin Smith and newcomer Tommy Bruner both scoring at 12.3 ppg, while fellow necomer Tyree Corbett averaged a double-double in those three tilts (11.7 ppg/10.0 rpg). 

KANSAS CITY ROOS (1-4, 0-0 SL) | @KCRoosMBB
Next Up: vs. Toledo (11/21; 11 a.m. ET, Estero, Fla.); vs. TBA (11/22; TBA)   
Previous Games: at Illinois (L, 86-48); Calvary Bible (W, 113-54); at Kansas State (L, 69-53) 
The Roos are off to the Gulf Coast Showcase where they will start the three-day, multi-team event against a Toledo squad that is ranked No. 5 in the latest CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 poll ... Kansas City is off to a 1-4 start with three of those setbacks coming to Power-5 programs ... First-year head coach picked up his first Roos’ win with a 113-54 drubbing of Calvary College on Nov. 14 ... Shemarri Allen has been the Roos’ top scorer early on, averaging a League-best 16.4 ppg in five starts ... Allen is also leading the League in steals with 16 through five games (3.2/g) ... He’s more than doubled the next closest player on the list (Omaha’s Frankie Fidler, 6; 1.5.g) ... Anderson Kopp, the Roos’ lone returning starter, missed the first three games of the campaign, but has averaged 13.0 ppg in his two appearances since returning.

NORTH DAKOTA FIGHTING HAWKS (2-2; 0-0 SL) | @UNDMBasketball
Next Up:  Montana State (11/20; 1 p.m. CT); Wisconsin-Stout (11/22; 7 p.m. CT)
Previous Games: at Creighton (L, 96-61); Pacific (L, 93-63); at Elon (W, 77-73) 
The Fighting Hawks have picked up two road wins in the early stretches of the season with the latest coming at Elon on Nov. 17 ... The win over the Phoenix was a bounce back after UND dropped its home opener to Pacific ... Mitchell Sueker responded with his best game of the young season, scoring 15 points against Elon after managing just 13 total in his first three starts ... Matt Norman is leading the Fighting Hawks in scoring and doing so off the bench ... Norman is averaging 10.8 ppg, just ahead of freshman B.J. Omot, who is chipping in 10.5 ppg ... Norman is shooting 47.8 percent from 3-point land (11-for-23). 
 
NORTH DAKOTA STATE BISON (0-4; 0-0 SL) | @NDSUMBB 
Next Up: Crown College (11/20; 1 p.m. CT); vs. Northern Colorado (11/25; 7:30 p.m. MT, Albuquerque, N.M.)
Previous Game: at Kansas (L, 82-59); Pacific (L, 91-86); at Indiana State (L, 101-75)   
The Bison will look to snap a four-game skid to open the season at home against Crown College on Nov. 20 ... After going 2-for-4 from 3-point range in his first two collegiate games, freshman Sam Hastreiter went 7-for-7 in a 91-86 loss to Pacific that saw the Bison nearly erased a 16-point halftime deficit ... Hastreiter finished with 24 points and was one make shy of tying the League’s single-game record for most 3-pointers made without a miss (Tyler Hagedorn, South Dakota; 8-for-8 vs. Texas Southern on Nov. 15, 2019) ... Hastreiter (10.3 ppg) is one of four Bison averaging double figures through the first four game with Grant Nelson leading that quartet with a 12.3 ppg clip.

OMAHA MAVERICKS (1-3; 0-14 SL) | @OmahaMBB 
Next Up:  at Iowa (11/21; 7 p.m. CT); vs. Louisiana-Monroe (11/25; 1:30 p.m., Estero, Fla.) 
Previous Games:  at Kansas (L, 89-64); at Nebraska (L, 75-61); Idaho (W, 79-72); Ball State (L, 71-61)
The Mavericks picked up the first win the Chris Crutchfield era with a 79-72 home win over Idaho ... Sophomore Frankie Fidler put together one of his better all-around performances, posting a 28-point, 11-rebound double-double in the victory ... Fidler is averaging a team-best 13.3 ppg through four games with a matchup at Iowa next up for the Mavericks on Nov. 21 ... Connors State transfer Marquel Sutton is the lone Maverick to reach double figures in all four games as he is scoring at a 12.8 ppg clip in his first season with Omaha ... He had a season-high 16 points in the win over the Vandals.

ORAL ROBERTS GOLDEN EAGLES (2-2; 0-0 SL) | @ORUMBB 
Next Up:  Oklahoma Baptist (11/19; 7 p.m. CT); at Utah State (11/22; 7 p.m. MT) 
Previous Game:  John Brown (W, 95-62); at Houston (L, 83-45); at Texas Southern (W, 82-64)
The Golden Eagles evened their record at 2-2 with an 82-64 road win at Texas Southern ... Arkansas transfer Connor Vanover has been as advertised on the defensive end for ORU, swatting away a DI-best 16 shots so far this season (4.0/g) ... He had eight blocks in a win over John Brown and six more in a loss to St. Mary’s (Calif.) ... Vanover is also producing on the offensive end, averaging a team-best 13.8 ppg and the 7-foot-3 forward is shooting 38.1 percent from distance ... ORU is hoisting 33.5 three-point attempts per game (sixth nationally) and owns the top 3-point percentage among League teams at 32.8 percent.  

ST. THOMAS TOMMIES (2-2; 0-0 SL) | @TommieMBBall
Next Up:  vs. Troy (11/18; 5 p.m. MT, Missoula, Mont.); vs. Merrimack (11/19; 5 p.m. MT)
Previous Games:  Chicago State (W, 83-61); St. Francis (N.Y.) (W, 84-48); at Montana (L, 78-59) 
The Tommies sandwiched a pair of home wins between road losses at Creighton and Montana to sit at 2-2 heading into the remainder of the Zootown Classic in Missoula ... St. Thomas has Troy and Merrimack on the docket to close out the multi-team event ... Freshman Andrew Rohde is leading the Tommies in scoring through four games, averaging 14.8 ppg, which is tops among all first-year players in the League so far ... Rohde has reached double figures in all four of his starts, including his first career 20-point outing in a win over St. Francis (N.Y.) ... Sharpshooting Riley Miller is also scoring in double figures at 11.8 ppg and is 11-for-20 from 3-point range through four games. 

SOUTH DAKOTA COYOTES (2-2; 0-0 SL) | @SDCoyotesMBB 
Next Up:  vs. LIU (11/22; 2:30 p.m. ET, Fort Myers, Fla.); vs. TBA (11/23; TBA)
Previous Game:  Lipscomb (W, 85-77); Dakota State (W, 82-64); at Mississippi State (L, 79-42)  
The Coyotes are off to a 2-2 start under first-year head coach Eric Peterson ... His first win came against Lipscomb when A.J. Plitzuweit showed like his old self with a 33-point outburst as the Coyotes rallied from a double-digit deficit ... The 33 points are the most by a League player in a game this season ... South Dakota fell to Mississippi State in the on-campus portion of the Fort Myers tip-off on Thursday and will now head to the Sunshine State to finish off the multi-team event with a clash against Long Island ... Plitzuweit is averaging 16.0 ppg in his return to action after missing all of the 2021-22 season ... He shares the League-lead with 11 makes from beyond the arc with another trio of players and is shooting 61.1 percent from distance.

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE JACKRABBITS (2-2; 0-0 SL) | @GoJacksMBB 
Next Up:   Stephen F. Austin (11/19; 6 p.m. CT); vs. Valparaiso (11/25; 1:30 p.m. ET, Savannah, Ga.)
Previous Games: vs. St. Bonaventure (W, 66-62; Sioux Falls); at Arkansas (L, 71-56) 
The Jackrabbits opened the season with a 2-2 mark away from Frost Arena where they will play for the first time this season on Nov. 19 against Stephen F. Austin ... Graduate student Matt Dentlinger has paced the offense in the early going, averaging 13.3 ppg in his return to the starting lineup after being a key figure off the bench the last couple of seasons ...  He had a team-best and season-high 16 points in the win over St. Bonaventure’s at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls ... Dentlinger is shooting 65.4 percent from the field (17-for-26) and is only topped on the team in that category by freshman William Kyle, who has also made 17 field goals on two fewer attempts (70.8 percent) ... Kyle is averaging 9.8 ppg ... Sophomore Zeke Mayo is pulling down a team-high 8.0 rpg ... 

WESTERN ILLINOIS LEATHERNECKS (2-2; 0-0 SL) | @WIU_MensHoops 
Next Up: at UTRGV (11/21; 5 p.m. CT); Youngstown State (11/26; 2 p.m. CT)
Previous Games:  Rockford (W, 113-56); at DePaul (L, 86-74); at UCF (L, 70-37)
The Leathernecks are off to a 2-2 start thanks in large part of Trenton Massner, who opened the season with a triple-double in the road win at Illinois State ... Massner finished with 12 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds to post WIU’s first triple-double since 2018 ... Massner added 19 points in a home win over Rockford, but missed the UCF game on Nov. 14 after suffering an injury just before halftime of WIU’s 86-74 loss to DePaul on Nov. 11 ... Wayne State transfer Alec Rosner has led the Leathernecks in scoring through four games with a 13.5 ppg clip ... He reached double figures in their first three contests, lincluding a season-high 25 in the win over the Redbirds on Nov. 7 ... WIU will look to move over the .500 mark at UTRGV in its next outing on Nov. 21.

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