The high-flying, full-throttle, pressure-packing rocket ship South Dakota hoped to ride for three days to three wins to seize the school's first-ever Summit League Tournament title crashed and burned —hard — in Saturday night's 100-75 loss to No. 1 seed Omaha. 

More appropriately, the Mavericks made sure the Coyotes failed to launch, using a full day of rest to turn up its own jets immediately, racing to a 16-4 start and extending its lead to 33 points in the first half to take all the air out of a charged-up, red-clad crowd.

Was this more about USD running out of gas or Omaha's superior ability to put the pedal to the medal?

More importantly, is this simple blurb about a postgame show going to ever run out of cliches? Well, let's find out.

John Gaskins, Matt Zimmer, and Marcus Traxler weave their way through the blowout, then turn things over to the postgame remarks of USD's Eric Peterson and Chase Forte, plus Omaha coach Chris Crutchfield, whose Mavs are a win away from their first-ever tourney title and NCAA Tournament berth. 

Earlier in the day, a blue-clad crowd of 8,104 saw No. 1 South Dakota State's women take one step close to their 12th trip to the big dance in an 84-55 cruise over No. 5 North Dakota. Paige Meyer was brilliant again in a 17-point performace while Brooklyn Meyer poured in 22 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in SDSU's eighth consecutive tournament win and 56th straight against Summit League competition dating back to the 2022 championship game loss to USD.

Hear from Jacks coach Aaron Johnston about why Paige Meyer is a "gift to watch," and why SDSU turned away every defensive ploy the Hawks threw at Brooklyn Meyer.

Now, it's on to face No. 2 Oral Roberts, who showed flashes of resistance in the two regular season SDSU wins and whose players have repeated their claim of being "on a mission" in Sioux Falls.

Will they accomplish that mission on Sunday? After we find out, we'll talk about it on Happy Hour's Live from The Summit League Tournament postgame show. And, then, we'll try to crank out more cliches! 

Stay tuned!