2020 Summit League women's basketball tournament explained

Year:2020
Conference:Summit League
Division:I
Gender:Women's
Teams:8
Arena:Denny Sanford Premier Center[1]
City:Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Champions:South Dakota
Titlecount:2nd
Coach:Dawn Plitzuweit
Coachcount:1st
Mvp:Hannah Sjerven
Mvpteam:South Dakota
Television:MidcoSN
ESPN+
ESPNU

The 2020 Summit League women's basketball tournament was a post-season women's basketball tournament for The Summit League. The tournament took place March 7–10, 2020, at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The top eight teams in the final standings qualified for the tournament. South Dakota won the tournament and earned an automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.

Seeds

The top eight teams by conference record in the Summit League are eligible to compete in the conference tournament. Teams are to be seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

SeedSchoolConference Record Tiebreaker[2]
1South Dakota16–0
2South Dakota State13–3
3Denver9–71–1 vs. SDSU
4Oral Roberts9–70–2 vs. SDSU, 2–0 vs. ND
5Western Illinois9–70–2 vs. SDSU, 1–1 vs. ND
6North Dakota State7–9
7North Dakota6–10
8Omaha2–14

Schedule and results

GameTimeMatchup ScoreTelevision
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 7
112:00 pm
  1. 1 South Dakota vs. #8 Omaha
99–40MidcosSN/ ESPN+
22:30 pm
  1. 2 South Dakota State vs. #7 North Dakota
72–43
Quarterfinals – Sunday, March 8
312:00 pm
  1. 4 Oral Roberts vs. #5 Western Illinois
74–66MidcosSN/ ESPN+
42:00 pm
  1. 3 Denver vs. #6 North Dakota State
72–68
Semifinals – Monday, March 9
512:00 pm
  1. 1 South Dakota vs. #4 Oral Roberts
65–43MidcosSN/ ESPN+
62:30 pm
  1. 2 South Dakota State vs. #6 North Dakota State
76–56
Final – Tuesday, March 10
71:00 pm
  1. 1 South Dakota vs. #2 South Dakota State
63–58ESPNU
  • Game times in CST. Rankings denote tournament seed

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Summit League. The Summit League. 2020-02-26. 2020-02-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20200226021601/https://www.thesummitleague.org/tournaments/wbkb/2019-20/index. dead.
  2. Web site: 2020 SUMMIT LEAGUE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP. The Summit League. March 4, 2020.