Date/Time/Location: October 17, 2026 in Spearfish, S.D. at A2 Arena

Live Stream: RMAC Network (Pay-Per-View)

Linear TV: BHSU Athletics has partnered with Forum Communications to bring you BHSU games to your live TV. You will now be able to watch select home events on cable at the KNBN-2 Station in Rapid City and the KSFL-TV station in Sioux Falls. Channel numbers and schedules for each of those channels for all sports can be found at the link above.

Theme: Fans are asked to wear pink in honor or breast cancer awareness for the Dig Pink match.

Tickets: Tickets can be purchased at the link above.

• Black Hills State is now 7-12 (3-6 RMAC) as they continue to stay in the RMAC playoff race. BHSU was able to pull off a huge come-from-behind five-set win against Highlands in the 1-1 weekend, where they also fell to Adams. BHSU was able to end their six-game losing streak with that win and that moves them to 3-5 in conference play as they have big wins over Christian and Fort Lewis. BHSU was unable to keep the momentum going as they fell in the Chicoine Center 1-3 to the Eagles of Chadron State and now dropped to 3-6 in conference play.
• The Yellow Jackets were able to have a 4-4 non-conference schedule after taking out MSU Billings, Western New Mexico, UMary, and Upper Iowa in the non-conference tournaments. BHSU was able to get revenge on UMary, who beat them early in the season as they produced the best hitting percentage in BHSU's D2 history, hitting .452 over the course of the game with only six attack errors.
• The Yellow Jackets entered the season fresh off a season where they had the most wins in a season since 2021 and the most conference wins since 2022. The Yellow Jackets went 6-20 (2-12 RMAC) last season. They went 3-1 in the 1st International Bank Homecoming Classic before entering RMAC play and pulled out two wins over Chadron, one of them in the regional pod, and a win over Western Colorado in regular conference play.
• The Green and Gold have played in six five set matches going 4-2 this season in such matches. BHSU went 2-2 in five setters last year and are 43-42 since joining D2 in matches that go five sets.
• The Yellow Jackets win over Fort Lewis was the first time since 2021 that BHSU had won their RMAC opener.
• The Yellow Jackets win over Colorado Christian was the first time BHSU has beaten CCU in Lakewood. They were 0-10 in their previous matchups at CCU.
• 6-6 was the latest BHSU has been at .500 in the D2 era passing 2013 where BHSU was 5-5.
• The Yellow Jackets are ranked in the top nine in the RMAC in six categories. They are ranked seventh in the conference in total digs (990), team total attacks (2,446), eighth in hitting percentage (.197), team assists (758), team kills (811), and ninth in service aces (97).
• The Yellow Jackets are featuring a pretty new team this year. They are only bringing back three players who started 15 or more games last year and only have five that started more than ten. They graduated five key seniors for the team last year and are bringing in six freshman and one transfer.
• BHSU was projected to finish 14th in the RMAC Preseason Coaches' Poll with 43 points, just ahead of Chadron State and one point behind Western Colorado. They are now in tenth in the RMAC at 3-6.
• The Yellow Jackets top three hitters are all within range of each other. Izzy Saiki has been the top of BHSU's trio this year. The senior from Thronton, Colo. is in the midst of a career year. She is leading the team slightly and was the first one to 200 kills with 214 kills with a 2.93 kills per set mark. She is also leading on the team in aces and is second in the RMAC with 29. She has 188 digs and 16 total blocks. She has 12 double-digit kill games including each of the last five games. She had a career-high 21 kills versus MSU Denver. Saiki had her third double-double of the year with 18 kills and 15 digs versus CCU. The 15 digs were a career-high and the five aces during that game were also a career-high. She had another double-double versus Chadron with 10 kills and a season-high 17 digs. She had her career-high 21 kills versus MSUD and then had her sixth double-double of the season versus UCCS with 10 kills and 12 digs. This past weekend, she had 28 kills and 22 digs including 17 kills and 16 digs versus NMHU. Against Chadron, the second time, she had 13 kills and a team-high 25 digs. 
• Carsyn Mettler is another top hitter for BHSU. Mettler, who has remained consistent now has a hitting percentage of .300 in ten out of 19 games this year. She is second on the team in kills with 189, a team-high .255 hitting percentage, and has 27.0 total blocks. She has reached ten kills in 11 games this year, including nine of the last 11. She had a .320 hitting percentage against #6 Washburn, and then a .455 hitting percentage versus UMary. She had 13 kills and two blocks versus Upper Iowa two weekends ago, but she had 28 kills in RMAC Weekend one with 15 versus Fort Lewis and 13 versus WCU. She had a .440 hitting percentage versus WCU. She had 18 kills this past weekend. She had 17 kills with a .400 hitting percentage and three blocks versus Chadron. She had 12 kills with a .333 hitting percentage against SDM. She had 13 kills versus Highlands. She had a career-high 23 kills versus Chadron with a .377 hitting percentage and two blocks.
• Zoie Husman has started all 19 games this year and after a fantastic tournament in Sioux Falls, she is third on the team with 175 kills and second with 24 aces. She is third with 174 digs. She also has 30 blocks, which is fourth on the team. Her best game of the year came versus Fort Lewis where she had her third double-double of her career with 21 kills and 13 digs. The 21 kills were career-high and her first time reaching 20 kills. She also had a career-high 24.5 points versus FLC as well as two total blocks. She had 17 kills versus UMary and a .667 hitting percentage, which was also a career high. She had a 17 kill, 13 dig game versus WNMU, with a career-high three total blocks. She had her second double of her season with a 13 kill, 15 dig game versus Upper Iowa, and tied her career high with three blocks.
• Elena Atkinson and Emma Kruger have had almost identical seasons. After combining for 76 assists last weekend, they combined for 77 this weekend with Atkinson leading 46 assists to 31. Atkinson sits atop with 375 assists and has averaged 5.14 assists per set this season, while Kruger has 317 and has averaged 4.53. Atkinson's best game came against Chadron State, where she had 31 assists, which the second most in her entire career. She had a .470 set percentage, which was the second-best on the year, only behind MSUB, where she had a .514 set percentage. Kruger's best game came against Fort Lewis, where she had a career-high 31 assists and 7 digs with an insane .508 set percentage. She just had a massive 30 assists, 22-dig game versus CCU with a .441 set percentage. When BHSU broke the record for attack percentage in a game in the D2 era against WCU, she had 25 assists with an impressive .568 set percentage. They are ranked eighth and 12th in the RMAC in total assists.
• Izabel Abril has been one of the other players to start all 19 games this year. Abril is sitting at 109 kills and is now second on the team with 46.0 total blocks. She had her Yellow Jacket career-high with 14 kills versus Fort Lewis, where she had a .417 attack percentage, and four total blocks, which is just her second time since joining BHSU reaching ten kills. She matched that mark a week later versus Christian, where she had 14 kills on a .458 hitting percentage and four total blocks. She had eight total blocks last weekend with five versus MSU Denver.
• Peyton McLeod has continued her solid career with 19 starts in 19 games this year. She is leading the team in blocks with 56.0 and has 99 kills. McLeod had a career-high 12 kills versus MSU Denver with four blocks and a .333 hitting percentage. She's had nine kills four times, but MSU Denver was her first double-digit kill game of her career. She had seven blocks versus Chadron.
• Keira Thompson has been the top libero for BHSU this year. The junior from Lakewood, Colo. who is in her second season as a Yellow Jacket is currently leading the team with 229 digs, reaching the 100-dig mark against Upper Iowa and the 200-dig mark versus Chadron. She is averaging 3.37 digs per set and has nine aces as well. Thompson had her career-high of 29 digs versus Fort Lewis, which passed her previous career-high set in the game before versus Upper Iowa of 21. She averaged 5.8 digs per set. Last weekend, Thompson earned her first RMAC Defensive Player of the Week award for having 44 digs in seven sets averaging 6.29 digs per set and reaching 20 digs in each game including 24 digs versus CCU and 20 digs in only three sets versus CSUP.
• Head coach Grayson DuBose enters his second season with the Yellow Jackets and has a BHSU record of 13-33 (5-18 RMAC) but has 14 years of head coaching experience at the D1 level prior to joining BHSU. He was head coach at Utah State for all 14 years and has a 202-266 career record with two WAC Coach of the Year awards and one NCAA Division 1 Tournament appearance. DuBose was able to finally get his 200th career win against Fort Lewis in the five-set thriller.

• Regis currently sits at 2-17 and 1-7 in RMAC play. The Rangers have been have only lost three in a row and were able to get a five-set win versus Highlands a couple weekends ago. Both of the Rangers wins are in five sets this year and Regis has faced some of the top teams in the RMAC already.
• RU won their opening game of the season versus Eastern New Mexico at the Fort Hays State tournament before falling in their next 14 games in a row. The Rangers lost to Fort Hays State (2x), Truman State, and Midwestern State before playing in their home tournament and losing all four games to #25 Central Missouri, #2 Wayne State, #RV Bentley, and #RV Anderson. They then lost their first four RMAC games, both regional pod games, and all three games since beating Highlands in Denver.
• The Rangers are 0-6 in road games this year with their two wins coming in a neutral site and a home game. The Rangers went 1-10 on the road last year with the sole win being versus Western Colorado.
• The Rangers are top seven in the RMAC in two categories. They are sixth in total digs (1,005), and seventh in digs per set (15.23).
• The Rangers were picked tenth in the conference in the RMAC Preseason Coaches’ Poll with 67 votes. They were picked just above Adams State. The Rangers finished with a 4-22 and 3-11 conference record last year. They are currently tied for 14th in with a 1-7 record.
• Cady Knight is the top libero for the Rangers. Knight is sixth in the RMAC in total digs with 295 and is fourth in digs per set with 4.47. Knight, a freshman from Monument, Colorado, has reached double digit digs in all but two games this year. She had a career-high 29 digs versus NMHU two weekends ago. Knight is coming off a 21 dig weekend where she had 14 digs versus UCCS and seven versus MSU Denver.
• Nicole Shaver is the top setter of the 1-2 punch at that position as she sits with 310 assists compared to Maddie Lynett’s 269. She also leads the team in aces with 18. She has reached double-digit assists in every game this year and is 13th in the RMAC in total assists. She is coming off a 30-assist weekend with 19 versus UCCS. She had a double-double in that game with 10 digs as well.
• Kailyn Polzin is the top hitter for the Rangers with 142 kills. She has only reached double-digit kills five times this year, but has done it in three of the last six games. She had a season-high 14 kills versus Christian last month and this past weekend, she had a combined 17 kills and 13 digs as she had 10 versus UCCS.
• Head Coach Joel List is in his tenth year as head coach of the Rangers and 21st as a part of their staff. List currently holds a 174-100 record. Up until the last two years, he had a .500 or better season in his first eight years and had 20 wins in five of them. However, these past two seasons, he has a 6-39 record.

 
SERIES HISTORY

• Since joining D2, Regis holds a 23-1 record versus BHSU with their sole win coming in 2013. The Rangers have won 18 straight games versus BHSU.
• BHSU has shown signs of life in the series as they have brought it to four or five sets in four of the last six games.
• Last year, BHSU lost in five sets in Denver to the Rangers as the Green and Gold held a 2-1 set lead before losing the fourth set 25-20 and the fifth set 15-4. McLeod had seven blocks in that game and Atkinson had a team-high 21 assists.