South Dakota beats Minnesota for first time since 1974
What Happened
South Dakota State had not beaten Minnesota in 51 years, since 1974, and was trailing 14-2 in the final matchup. Luke Rasmusen was down a point with 30 seconds left against Hopky, then got a reversal and nearfall points in the final seconds to win 7-4. That individual win also gave South Dakota State the team victory, snapping the
Who / What Is Involved
Teams: Twins.
Full Transcript
Click timestamps to jump to that momentWe had a 51year
drought snapped. South Dakota State had
not beaten Minnesota in 51 years since
1974.
And in this final matchup between the
heavyweights, SDSU is trailing 14-2.
Luke Rasmusen, he's down. He's down a
point and there's only 30 seconds. And
Hopky is just riding him, just rolling
it out. Just he's got the lead. He just
needs to keep the lead because Ras Musa
needs to win and win by a couple points
for his whole school, his whole team to
win. That was a big wedgie we just saw.
He's trying to make things happen.
Nothing's happening. We get down to 14
seconds, 13 seconds, 12, 11. And now
he's got his move and he gets the
reversal. He gets on top of him and then
he's going to get him. They start to
count. One, two, three. But it's all
right. He got two nearfall points. two
points for the reversal, bringing it to
seven. It was four to three. He got four
points in the final like five seconds to
win seven to four, which not only gave
him the victory, but gave the whole team
the victory. Now, if that's not how the
points happened, let me know cuz I
checked three different places and
that's what I gathered. Two points cuz
he got two seconds nearfall points. He
kind of gave up once he knew he got
those. Oh my god, the guy on the right
uh right here in the gray SHIRT GETS
ATTACKED. OH, his boys are pumped.
Dramatic finish. South Dakota State
beats Minnesota. First time since Jer
Ford was in