2023 Summit League women's basketball tournament explained

Year:	2023
Conference:	Summit League
Division:	I
Gender:	Women's
Teams:	10
Arena:	Denny Sanford Premier Center
City:	Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Champions:	South Dakota State
Titlecount:	10th
Coach:	Aaron Johnston
Coachcount:	10th
Mvp:	Haleigh Timmer
Mvpteam:	South Dakota State
Television:	ESPN+, ESPNU

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

Seeds

All ten conference teams participated in the tournament following a change announced before the season began.^[2] It was the first year that St. Thomas participated in a Division I conference tournament in any sport. Teams were seeded by regular-season conference record, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The tiebreakers operated 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

Seed	School	Conf. record	Tiebreaker(s)
1		18–0
2		12–6
3		11–7
4		10–8
5		8–10	4–0 vs Denver, Omaha
6		8–10	2–2 vs Denver, Oral Roberts
7		8–10	0–4 vs Omaha, Oral Roberts
8		7–11
9		5–13
10		3–15

Schedule and results

Game	Time ^[3]	Matchup	Score	Television
First Round - Friday, March 3
1	12:30 pm	No. 8 St. Thomas vs. No. 9 Western Illinois	61–50	MidcoSN/ESPN+
2	3:00 pm	No. 7 Denver vs. No. 10 Kansas City	66–65
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 4
3	12:30 pm	No. 1 South Dakota State vs. No. 8 St. Thomas	87–59	MidcoSN/ESPN+
4	3:00 pm	No. 2 North Dakota State vs. No. 10 Kansas City	71–64
Quarterfinals – Sunday, March 5
5	12:30 pm	No. 4 South Dakota vs. No. 5 Oral Roberts	92–69	MidcoSN/ESPN+
6	3:00 pm	No. 3 North Dakota vs. No. 6 Omaha	84–81
Semifinals - Monday, March 6
7	12:30 pm	No. 1 South Dakota State vs. No. 5 Oral Roberts	87–60	MidcoSN/ESPN+
8	3:00 pm	No. 10 Kansas City vs. No. 6 Omaha	69–60
Final – Tuesday, March 7
9	1:00 pm	No. 1 South Dakota State vs. No. 6 Omaha	93–51	ESPNU
Game times in CST. Rankings denote tournament seed. Reference:^[4]

Bracket

Source:

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament team:^[5]

Player	School
Haleigh Timmer (MVP)	South Dakota State
Paige Meyer	South Dakota State
Myah Selland	South Dakota State
Elena Pilakouta	Omaha
Manna Mensah	Kansas City

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. February 4, 2023.
2. Web site: 2022-23 Summit League Basketball Schedules Released. thesummitleague.org. The Summit League. August 3, 2022. February 4, 2023.
3. Web site: 2023 #SummitWBB Championship Bracket. thesummitleague.org. The Summit League. February 25, 2023. February 25, 2023.
4. Web site: Jacks are top seed in 2023 #SummitWBB Championship bracket. thesummitleague.org. The Summit League. February 25, 2023. February 25, 2023.
5. Web site: Jackrabbits blister nets, dominate Mavericks to win championship. thesummitleague.org. The Summit League. March 7, 2023. March 7, 2023.