2024 Summit League men's basketball tournament explained

Year:	2024
Conference:	Summit League
Division:	I
Gender:	Men's
Teams:	9
Arena:	Denny Sanford Premier Center
City:	Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Champions:	South Dakota State
Titlecount:	7th
Coach:	Eric Henderson
Coachcount:	2nd
Mvp:	William Kyle III
Mvpteam:	South Dakota State
Attendance:	36,783
Television:	Summit League Network, CBSSN

The 2024 Summit League men's basketball tournament is the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Summit League for the 2023–24 season. All tournament games are played at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from March 8–12, 2024.^[1]

Seeds

All nine conference teams will participate in the tournament. Teams will be 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 St. Thomas wins the Summit League Tournament, the conference's automatic bid goes to the highest seeded postseason eligible team, South Dakota State.

Seed	School	Conf. record	Tiebreaker(s)
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
First round - Friday, March 8
1	7:00 pm	No. 8 Oral Roberts vs. No. 9 South Dakota	77–62	MidcoSN/Summit League Network
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 9
2	6:00 pm	No. 1 South Dakota State vs. No. 8 Oral Roberts	79–63	MidcoSN/Summit League Network
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
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
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
Game times in CST. Rankings denote tournament seed. Reference:^[3]

Bracket

Source:^[4]

All-Tournament Team

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

Player	School
William Kyle III (MVP)	South Dakota State
Luke Appel	South Dakota State
Zeke Mayo	South Dakota State
Tommy Bruner	Denver
Frankie Fidler	Omaha

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2024 Men's Basketball Championships - The Summit League . 2023-12-15 . thesummitleague.org . en.
2. Web site: 2024 Combined Basketball Bracket (PDF) - The Summit League . 2023-12-15 . thesummitleague.org . en.
3. Web site: Jackrabbits corral top seed for 2024 #SummitMBB Championship Bracket. thesummitleague.org. The Summit League. March 3, 2024. March 3, 2024.
4. Web site: 2024 MBB Bracket. thesummitleague.org. The Summit League. March 3, 2024.
5. Web site: No. 1 South Dakota State fends off late charge from No. 7 Denver to claim title. thesummitleague.org. The Summit League. March 12, 2024. March 13, 2024.