2024 Summit League men's basketball tournament
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| 2024 Summit League men's basketball tournament | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 2023–24 |
| Teams | 9 |
| Site | Denny Sanford Premier Center Sioux Falls, South Dakota |
| Champions | South Dakota State (7th title) |
| Winning coach | Eric Henderson (2nd title) |
| MVP | William Kyle III (South Dakota State) |
| Attendance | 40,588 (total) 8,268 (championship) |
| Television | Summit League Network, CBSSN |
| Conf. | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| South Dakota State † | 12 | – | 4 | .750 | 22 | – | 13 | .629 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kansas City | 10 | – | 6 | .625 | 16 | – | 16 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| North Dakota | 10 | – | 6 | .625 | 18 | – | 14 | .563 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| St. Thomas * | 9 | – | 7 | .563 | 20 | – | 13 | .606 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| North Dakota State | 8 | – | 8 | .500 | 15 | – | 17 | .469 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Omaha | 7 | – | 9 | .438 | 15 | – | 18 | .455 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Denver | 6 | – | 10 | .375 | 17 | – | 17 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oral Roberts | 5 | – | 11 | .313 | 12 | – | 19 | .387 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| South Dakota | 5 | – | 11 | .313 | 12 | – | 20 | .375 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| * Ineligible for the 2024 NCAA tournament due to transition from Division III | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 2024 Summit League tournament winner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2024 Summit League men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Summit League for the 2023–24 season. All tournament games were played at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from March 8–12, 2024.[1]
All nine conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The tiebreakers operated in the following order:
- Head-to-head record
- Record against the top-seeded team not involved in the tie, going down through the standings until the tie is broken
If St. Thomas had won the Summit League Tournament, the conference's automatic bid would have gone to the highest seeded postseason eligible team, South Dakota State.
| Seed | School | Conf. record | Tiebreaker(s) |
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| 1 | South Dakota State | 12–4 | |
| 2 | Kansas City | 10–6 | 1–1 vs. South Dakota State |
| 3 | North Dakota | 10–6 | 0–2 vs. South Dakota State |
| 4 | St. Thomas | 9–7 | |
| 5 | North Dakota State | 8–8 | |
| 6 | Omaha | 7–9 | |
| 7 | Denver | 6–10 | |
| 8 | Oral Roberts | 5–11 | 1–1 vs. South Dakota State |
| 9 | South Dakota | 5–11 | 0–2 vs. South Dakota State |
Schedule and results
| Game | Time [2] | Matchup | Score | Television | Attendance |
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| First Round - Friday, March 8 | |||||
| 1 | 7:00 pm | No. 8 Oral Roberts vs. No. 9 South Dakota | 77–62 | MidcoSN/Summit League Network | 7,611 |
| Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 9 | |||||
| 2 | 6:00 pm | No. 1 South Dakota State vs. No. 8 Oral Roberts | 79–63 | MidcoSN/Summit League Network | 9,121 |
| 3 | 8:30 pm | No. 2 Kansas City vs. No. 7 Denver | 61–60 | ||
| Quarterfinals – Sunday, March 10 | |||||
| 4 | 6:00 pm | No. 4 St. Thomas vs. No. 5 North Dakota State | 68–58 | MidcoSN/Summit League Network | 7,491 |
| 5 | 8:30 pm | No. 3 North Dakota vs. No. 6 Omaha | 73–72 | ||
| Semifinals - Monday, March 11 | |||||
| 6 | 6:00 pm | No. 1 South Dakota State vs. No. 4 St. Thomas | 59–49 | MidcoSN/Summit League Network | 8,097 |
| 7 | 8:30 pm | No. 7 Denver vs. No. 6 Omaha | 66–63 | ||
| Final – Tuesday, March 12 | |||||
| 8 | 8:30 pm | No. 1 South Dakota State vs. No. 7 Denver | 76–68 | CBSSN | 8,268 |
| *Game times in CST. Rankings denote tournament seed. Reference:[3] | |||||