South Dakota State's Mike Daum is a top-10 scorer in NCAA basketball history — after Mom cracked down on fadeaways
By Chuck Culpepper Chuck Culpepper Reporter who covers national college football, college basketball, tennis, golf and international sports. Email Bio Follow March 8 at 6:02 AM BROOKINGS, S.D. — Come indoors from the Dakotan snow and ice and cold that make your surroundings hush and your soles slide and your snot freeze. Enter the home of the South Dakota State Jackrabbits on a Friday afternoon before a Saturday game, and walk into the 6,500-seat gym they call the Rabbit Den.
That’s also the first architect of the blossomed and blossoming game of Mike Daum, bearer of the smashing nickname “the Dauminator,” stalwart of March Madness — he’s made three NCAA tournaments in a row, with South Dakota State favored to make it four as the top seed in the Summit League tournament that begins Saturday.
She and he went nightly to the high school gym in the quiet of western Nebraska, the quiet dashed with their occasional and accepted hollering. She and he drove and rode the 100 minutes each way during his teen years, often four times a week, to and from his AAU team in Fort Collins, Colo., where they happened upon a treasured coach, Brandon Valdez, who impressed Michele straightaway when she read his detailed practice plan.
Said Otzelberger: “And so what Michele and I have talked about a lot is, how does that shot-fake, do we need to get away from that altogether, so he’s just shooting with confidence, and the arc and release and the rotation are there, so he doesn’t have the added dynamic, for him, of, ‘Should I pass up this shot?’ Just the psychology of, you know, shooters.”With his trademark buoyancy, Mike Daum said: “She hates that I pump-fake.
The word “under-recruited” adjoins Daum’s name, but he doesn’t buy it, assuring his family felt no grievance about his lack of attention and reminding that his growth spurt came late. South Dakota State even redshirted him his first year, which ended up heightening a giddy story yet further. In AAU summers, his parents forged a charming communication system wherein Michele would text play-by-play to Mitch, gym to tractor.
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