2025 Summit League men's basketball tournament

2025 Summit League men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2024–25
Teams	9
Site	Denny Sanford Premier Center Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Champions	Omaha (1st title)
Winning coach	Chris Crutchfield (1st title)
MVP	Marquel Sutton (Omaha)
Attendance	34,875 (total) 7,597 (championship)
Television	CBSSN, MidcoSN, SLN
Summit League men's basketball tournaments

2024–25 Summit League men's basketball standings

	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Omaha †	13	–	3		.813			22	–	13		.629
St. Thomas *	12	–	4		.750			24	–	10		.706
South Dakota State	11	–	5		.688			20	–	12		.625
North Dakota State	10	–	6		.625			21	–	11		.656
South Dakota	9	–	7		.563			19	–	14		.576
North Dakota	5	–	11		.313			12	–	21		.364
Denver	5	–	11		.313			11	–	21		.344
Kansas City	4	–	12		.250			13	–	20		.394
Oral Roberts	3	–	13		.188			7	–	23		.233
† 2025 Summit League tournament winner * Ineligible for the 2025 NCAA tournament due to transition from Division III

The 2025 Summit League men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Summit League for the 2024–25 season. All tournament games were played at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from March 5–9, 2025.

Omaha clinched the Summit League's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, after both the Mavericks and St. Thomas both won their tournament semifinal games, since St. Thomas is ineligible for NCAA postseason play as a team transitioning from Division III. The matchup between Omaha and St. Thomas in the Summit League championship marked the first ever appearance in a Division I conference tournament championship game for both teams. Omaha defeated St. Thomas in that matchup to secure their first ever Summit League championship.

Seeds

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:

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

Since St. Thomas was ineligible for the NCAA tournament, if they had won the Summit League tournament, the conference's automatic bid would have been awarded to Omaha as the highest seeded postseason-eligible team.

Seed	School	League Record	Tiebreaker(s)
1	Omaha	13–3
2	St. Thomas	12–4
3	South Dakota State	11–5
4	North Dakota State	10–6
5	South Dakota	9–7
6	North Dakota	5–11	1–1 vs. North Dakota State
7	Denver	5–11	0–2 vs. North Dakota State
8	Kansas City	4–12
9	Oral Roberts	3–13

Schedule and results

Game	Time	Matchup	Score	Television	Attendance
First Round – Wednesday, March 5
1	7:00 pm	No. 8 Kansas City vs. No. 9 Oral Roberts	73–56	MidcoSN/ SLN	3,917
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 6
2	6:00 pm	No. 1 Omaha vs. No. 8 Kansas City	70–61	MidcoSN/ SLN	5,814
3	8:30 pm	No. 2 St. Thomas vs. No. 7 Denver	80–62
Quarterfinals – Friday, March 7
4	6:00 pm	No. 4 North Dakota State vs. No. 5 South Dakota	84–85	MidcoSN/ SLN	9,202
5	8:30 pm	No. 3 South Dakota State vs. No. 6 North Dakota	69–85
Semifinals - Saturday, March 8
6	7:00 pm	No. 1 Omaha vs. No. 5 South Dakota	100–75	CBSSN	8,345
7	9:47 pm	No. 2 St. Thomas vs. No. 6 North Dakota	85–69
Championship – Sunday, March 9
8	8:00 pm	No. 1 Omaha vs. No. 2 St. Thomas	85–75	CBSSN	7,597
*Game times in CST through the semifinals and CDT for the final. Rankings denote tournament seed. Reference:

Bracket

	First Round March 5 MidcoSN/SLN					Quarterfinals March 6 & 7 MidcoSN/SLN					Semifinals March 8 CBSSN					Final March 9 CBSSN
						1	Omaha	70
	8	Kansas City	73			8	Kansas City	61
	9	Oral Roberts	56								1	Omaha	100
											5	South Dakota	75
						4	North Dakota State	84
						5	South Dakota	85
																1	Omaha	85
																2	St. Thomas	75
						2	St. Thomas	80
						7	Denver	62
											2	St. Thomas	85
											6	North Dakota	69
						3	South Dakota State	69
						6	North Dakota	85

Source:

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team:

Player	School
Marquel Sutton (MVP)	Omaha
JJ White	Omaha
Miles Barnstable	St. Thomas
Kendall Blue	St. Thomas
Treysen Eaglestaff	North Dakota

See also

• 2025 Summit League women's basketball tournament