2023 Summit League men's basketball tournament explained

Year:	2023
Conference:	Summit League
Division:	I
Gender:	Men's
Teams:	10
Arena:	Denny Sanford Premier Center
City:	Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Champions:	Oral Roberts
Titlecount:	5th
Coach:	Paul Mills
Coachcount:	2nd
Mvp:	Max Abmas
Mvpteam:	Oral Roberts
Television:	MidcoSN, ESPN+, ESPN2

The 2023 Summit League men's basketball Tournament is the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Summit League for the 2022-23 season. All tournament games will be played at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from March 3-7, 2023.^[1]

Seeds

All ten conference teams will participate in the tournament following a change announced before the season began.^[2] This will be the first year that St. Thomas will participate in a Division I conference tournament in any sport. Teams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The tiebreakers operate in the following order:

1. Head-to-head record
2. Record against the top-seeded team not involved in the tie, going down through the standings until the tie is broken

If a team that is not eligible for the NCAA Tournament wins the Summit League Tournament, the conference's automatic bid goes to the highest seeded postseason eligible team.^[3]

Seed	School	Conf. record	Tiebreaker(s)
1		18–0
2		13–5
3		11–7
4		9–9	1–1 vs. South Dakota
5		9–9	0–2 vs. South Dakota
6	South Dakota	7–11	2–0 vs. St. Thomas
7	Kansas City	7–11	1–1 vs. St. Thomas
8	Denver	6–12	1–1 vs. Western Illinois
9	North Dakota	6–12	0–2 vs. Western Illinois
10		4–14

Schedule and results

Game	Time ^[4]	Matchup	Score	Television
First round - Friday, March 3
1	6:00 pm	No. 8 Denver vs. No. 9 North Dakota	83–68	MidcoSN/ESPN+
2	8:30 pm	No. 7 Kansas City vs. No. 10 Omaha	73–61
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 4
3	6:00 pm	No. 1 Oral Roberts vs. No. 9 North Dakota	96–80	MidcoSN/ESPN+
4	8:30 pm	No. 2 South Dakota State vs. No. 10 Omaha	63–55
Quarterfinals – Sunday, March 5
5	6:00 pm	No. 4 Western Illinois vs. No. 5 St. Thomas	67–60	MidcoSN/ESPN+
6	8:30 pm	No. 3 North Dakota State vs. No. 6 South Dakota	70–68
Semifinals - Monday, March 6
7	6:00 pm	No. 1 Oral Roberts vs. No. 5 St. Thomas	70–65	MidcoSN/ESPN+
8	8:30 pm	No. 2 South Dakota State vs. No. 3 North Dakota State	89–79
Final – Tuesday, March 7
9	8:00 pm	No. 1 Oral Roberts vs. No. 3 North Dakota State	92–58	ESPN2
Game times in CST. Rankings denote tournament seed. Reference:^[5]

Bracket

Source:

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament team:^[6]

Player	School
Max Abmas (MVP)	Oral Roberts
Connor Vanover	Oral Roberts
Grant Nelson	North Dakota State
Boden Skunberg	North Dakota State
Andrew Rohde	St. Thomas

Notes and References

1. Web site: On-sale date for 2023 Summit League Basketball Championships tickets set for Oct. 18. thesummitleague.org. The Summit League. August 22, 2022. January 4, 2023.
2. Web site: 2022-23 Summit League Basketball Schedules Released. thesummitleague.org. The Summit League. August 3, 2022. January 4, 2023.
3. Web site: 2023 Summit League Tournament. Hoops HD. March 20, 2023.
4. Web site: 2023 #SummitMBB Championship Bracket. thesummitleague.org. The Summit League. February 25, 2023. February 25, 2023.
5. Web site: Golden Eagles grab top seed at 2023 #SummitMBB Championship. thesummitleague.org. The Summit League. February 25, 2023. February 25, 2023.
6. Web site: Golden Eagles get back to the dance with triumph over NDSU in title game. thesummitleague.org. The Summit League. March 7, 2023. March 7, 2023.