Summit League men's basketball tournament

American college basketball conference tournament

Summit League men's basketball tournament
Conference basketball championship
The Summit League Conference tournament logo (2008–present)
Sport	College basketball
Conference	Summit League
Number of teams	All 9 conference teams
Format	Single-elimination tournament
Current stadium	Denny Sanford Premier Center
Current location	Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Played	1984–present
Last contest	2024
Current champion	South Dakota State (7)
Most championships	Valparaiso (8)
TV partner(s)	Midco Sports, CBS Sports Network
Official website	TheSummitLeague.org Men's Basketball

The Summit League men's basketball tournament, popularly known as The Summit League at the Falls, is the post-season tournament for NCAA Division I conference Summit League. The winner of the tournament receives the Summit League's automatic bid into the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. The tournament was first played in 1984, when the league was known as the Association of Mid-Continent Universities (AMCU). The league was also known as the Mid-Continent Conference from 1989 to 2007, after which it was renamed to The Summit League.

Format

Currently, all 9 men's basketball teams in the Summit League receive a berth in the conference tournament (barring NCAA sanctions). Before the 2022-23 season, only the top 8 conference teams (by conference record) made the tournament. After the 16-game conference season, teams are seeded by conference record with the following tie-breakers:

Head-to-head competition
Winning percentage vs. ranked conference teams (starting with #1 and moving down until the tie is broken)
Ratings Percentage Index
Coin flip

Tournament champions

Year	Champion	Score	Runner-Up	MVP	Venue	Location	Notes
1984	Western Illinois	73–64	Cleveland State	Todd Hutcheson, WIU	Hammons Student Center	Springfield, Missouri
1985	Eastern Illinois	75–64	Southwest Missouri State	None chosen			First rounds at campus sites
1986	Cleveland State	70–66	Eastern Illinois	Kevin Duckworth, EIU
1987	Southwest Missouri State	90–87	Cleveland State	Winston Garland, SMS
1988	Not held
1989	Southwest Missouri State	73–67	Illinois-Chicago	Hubert Henderson, SMS	Hammons Student Center	Springfield, Missouri
1990	Northern Iowa	53–45	Green Bay	Jason Reese, UNI	UNI-Dome	Cedar Falls, Iowa
1991	Green Bay	56–39	Northern Illinois	Tony Bennett, UWGB	Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena	Green Bay, Wisconsin
1992	Eastern Illinois	83–68	Illinois-Chicago	Steve Rowe, EIU	CSU Convocation Center	Cleveland, Ohio
1993	Wright State	94–88	Illinois-Chicago	Bill Edwards, WSU	Nutter Center	Dayton, Ohio
1994	Green Bay	61–56	Illinois-Chicago	Sherell Ford, UIC	Rosemont Horizon	Rosemont, Illinois
1995	Valparaiso	88–85 (3OT)	Western Illinois	Bryce Drew, VU	Athletics-Recreation Center	Valparaiso, Indiana	First rounds at campus sites
1996	Valparaiso	75–52	Western Illinois	Bryce Drew, VU	The MARK of the Quad Cities	Moline, Illinois
1997	Valparaiso	63–59	Western Illinois	Janthony Joseph, WIU
1998	Valparaiso	67–48	Youngstown State	Bryce Drew, VU
1999	Valparaiso	73–69	Oral Roberts	Milo Stovall, VU
2000	Valparaiso	71–62	Southern Utah	Luboš Bartoň, VU	Allen County War Memorial Coliseum	Fort Wayne, Indiana
2001	Southern Utah	62–59	Valparaiso	Fred House, USU
2002	Valparaiso	88–55	IUPUI	Milo Stovall, VU
2003	IUPUI	66–64	Valparaiso	Josh Murray, IUPUI	Kemper Arena	Kansas City, Missouri
2004	Valparaiso	75–70	IUPUI	Odell Bradley, IUPUI	Kemper Arena	Kansas City, Missouri
2005	Oakland	61–60	Oral Roberts	Rawle Marshall, OU	Union Multipurpose Activity Center	Tulsa, Oklahoma
2006	Oral Roberts	85–72	Chicago State	Ken Tutt, ORU
2007	Oral Roberts	71–67	Oakland	Ken Tutt, ORU
2008	Oral Roberts	71–64	IUPUI	Moses Ehambe, ORU
2009	North Dakota State	66–64	Oakland	Ben Woodside, NDSU	Sioux Falls Arena	Sioux Falls, South Dakota
2010	Oakland	76–64	IUPUI	Derick Nelson, OU
2011	Oakland	90–76	Oral Roberts	Keith Benson, OU
2012	South Dakota State	52–50 (OT)	Western Illinois	Nate Wolters, SDSU
2013	South Dakota State	73–67	North Dakota State	Nate Wolters, SDSU
2014	North Dakota State	60–57	IPFW	Taylor Braun, NDSU
2015	North Dakota State	57–56	South Dakota State	Lawrence Alexander, NDSU	Denny Sanford Premier Center
2016	South Dakota State	67–59	North Dakota State	Mike Daum, SDSU
2017	South Dakota State	79–77	Omaha				& Individual session attendance record (11,235)
2018	South Dakota State	97–87	South Dakota
2019	North Dakota State	73–63	Omaha	Vinnie Shahid, NDSU
2020	North Dakota State	89–53	North Dakota	Vinnie Shahid, NDSU
2021	Oral Roberts	75–72	North Dakota State	Max Abmas, ORU	Sanford Pentagon		Tournament held without fans
2022	South Dakota State	75–69	North Dakota State	Douglas Wilson, SDSU	Denny Sanford Premier Center
2023	Oral Roberts	92–58	North Dakota State	Max Abmas, ORU
2024	South Dakota State	76–68	Denver	William Kyle, SDSU			First Final on CBSSN

^ Known as Missouri State since 2005.
^ Now branded as UIC.
Now Purdue Fort Wayne.

Performance by school

School	Championships	Years
Valparaiso	8	1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004
South Dakota State	7	2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022, 2024
Oral Roberts	5	2006, 2007, 2008, 2021, 2023
North Dakota State	5	2009, 2014, 2015, 2019, 2020
Oakland	3	2005, 2010, 2011
Eastern Illinois	2	1985, 1992
Southwest Missouri State	2	1987, 1989
Wisconsin-Green Bay	2	1991, 1994
Western Illinois	1	1984
Cleveland State	1	1986
Northern Iowa	1	1990
Wright State	1	1993
Southern Utah	1	2001
IUPUI	1	2003
TOTAL	40

Teams in bold are currently in the Summit League. Oral Roberts left for the Southland Conference after the 2011–12 season, but returned for 2014–15.
Among current Summit League members, Denver, North Dakota, Omaha, and South Dakota have reached the tournament final but failed to win the championship, and Kansas City, and St. Thomas have yet to advance to the tournament final. Kansas City, which rejoined in 2020–21, had competed under its academic identity of UMKC during its previous Summit tenure (1994–95 to 2012–13).

Television coverage

Year	Network	Play-by-play	Analyst	Sideline
2024	CBSSN	John Sadak	Tim Doyle	Emily Proud
2023	ESPN2	Clay Matvick	Kevin Lehman
2022		Clay Matvick	Kevin Lehman
2021		Kevin Fitzgerald	Dalen Cuff
2020		Clay Matvick	Bryce Drew	Elaina Lanson
2019			Sean Harrington
2018
2017
2016		Bob Wischusen
2015		Clay Matvick
2014			Darrin Horn
2013			Bob Valvano
2012			Bob Valvano
2011	ESPN	Lou Cannellis	Mike Kelley
2010	ESPN2	Lou Cannellis	Mike Kelley
2009	ESPN2	Dave Barnett	Tim Welsh
2008	ESPN	Ron Franklin	Fran Fraschilla
2007	ESPN	Ron Franklin	Fran Fraschilla

References

"2022-23 Summit League Basketball Schedules Released". thesummitleague.org. The Summit League. August 3, 2022. Retrieved January 13, 2023.
"Summit League announces Championship dates for 2023-24". thesummitleague.org. The Summit League. July 27, 2023. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
"#SummitMBB Year End Notebook". The Summit League. 2017-04-10. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
Humes, Michael (2011-02-28). "Championship Week Presented by DICK'S Sporting Goods Schedule". Archived from the original on 2012-06-12.
"Championship Week Begins Thursday, March 4 | ESPN MediaZone". Archived from the original on 2010-04-12. Retrieved 2010-12-17.
"20090226_ChampionshipWeekBeginsMarch5". Archived from the original on 2009-03-07. Retrieved 2009-03-01.
"ESPN Press Room". ESPN Press Room U.S.
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NCAA men's college basketball tournaments

Division I

Early season	Acrisure Classic Acrisure Holiday Invitational Acrisure Invitational Arizona Tip-Off Bahamas Championship Battle 4 Atlantis Big 5 Classic Boardwalk Battle Cancún Challenge Cayman Islands Classic Charleston Classic Diamond Head Classic Empire Classic Emerald Coast Classic ESPN Events Invitational Fort Myers Tip-Off Greenbrier Tip-Off Gulf Coast Showcase Hall of Fame Tip-Off Jacksonville Classic Legends Classic Maui Invitational Myrtle Beach Invitational Nassau Championship NIT Season Tip-Off Paradise Jam Phil Knight Invitational Players Era Festival Rady Children's Invitational Sunshine Slam Vegas Showdown
Defunct Early season	All-College Basketball Classic Asheville Championship Belfast Classic Coaches vs. Cancer Classic Continental Tire Main Event Corpus Christi Coastal Classic Crossover Classic DirecTV Classic Great Alaska Shootout Global Sports Classic Jamaica Classic Las Vegas Classic Las Vegas Invitational Northern Classic Puerto Rico Tip-Off Savannah Invitational SoCal Challenge Southland Basketball Tip-Off Vancouver Showcase
Conference postseason	ACC America East The American ASUN Atlantic 10 Big 12 Big East Big Sky Big South Big Ten Big West CAA Conference USA Horizon Ivy League MAAC MEAC Mid-American Missouri Valley Mountain West Northeast Ohio Valley Pac-12 (on hiatus until 2027) Patriot SEC Southern Southland SWAC Sun Belt Summit WAC West Coast
Defunct Conference postseason	American South American West Big Eight East Coast Great Midwest Great West Metro Southwest
Postseason	NCAA Division I Tournament National Invitation Tournament College Basketball Invitational CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament College Basketball Crown (starting in 2025)
Defunct Postseason	The Basketball Classic Vegas 16 National Commissioners Invitational Tournament National Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament

Division II

Conference postseason	CCAA CACC Carolinas East Coast Great American GLIAC GLVC G-MAC Great Northwest Gulf South Lone Star Mountain East Northeast-10 Northern Sun Pacific West Peach Belt PSAC RMAC South Atlantic SIAC Sunshine State
Defunct Conference postseason	Heartland
Postseason	NCAA Division II Tournament

Division III

Conference postseason	Allegheny Mountain American Rivers American Southwest Atlantic East C2C Centennial CUNYAC CCIW CCS Commonwealth Coast Empire 8 Great Northeast HCAC Landmark Liberty Little East MASCAC Michigan Middle Atlantic (MAC Commonwealth and MAC Freedom) Midwest Minnesota NESCAC NEWMAC New Jersey North Atlantic NACC NCAC Northwest Ohio Old Dominion Presidents' SAA SCIAC SLIAC Skyline SCAC SUNYAC United East Upper Midwest USA South Wisconsin
Defunct Conference postseason	ACAA Colonial States NECC
Postseason	NCAA Division III Tournament ECAC Tournaments

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