2024–25 Summit League men's basketball season

2024–25 Summit League men's basketball season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Basketball
Number of teams	9
TV partner(s)	Summit League Network, CBS Sports Network
Regular season
Summit League tournament

2024–25 Summit League men's basketball standings

	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
St. Thomas *	10	–	2		.833			20	–	7		.741
Omaha	10	–	3		.769			16	–	12		.571
South Dakota State	9	–	3		.750			18	–	9		.667
North Dakota State	8	–	5		.615			19	–	9		.679
South Dakota	7	–	5		.583			16	–	11		.593
North Dakota	5	–	8		.385			11	–	17		.393
Kansas City	3	–	9		.250			11	–	16		.407
Oral Roberts	2	–	10		.167			6	–	19		.240
Denver	2	–	11		.154			8	–	20		.286
* Ineligible for the 2025 NCAA tournament due to transition from Division III
† 2025 Summit League tournament winner As of February 16, 2025

The 2024–25 Summit League men's basketball season started non-conference play on November 4, 2024, and will begin conference play on January 2, 2025. The regular season will end on March 1, 2025, and set up the 2025 Summit League men's basketball tournament which will take place from March 5 to 9, 2025.

Head coaches

Team	Head Coach	Previous Job	Years At School	Record at School	Summit League Record	Summit League Titles	NCAA tournaments	NCAA Sweet 16's
Denver	Jeff Wulbrun	Stanford (Assistant)	4	43–55	19–33	0	0	0
Kansas City	Marvin Menzies	Grand Canyon (Associate HC)	3	27–37	17–17	0	5	0
North Dakota	Paul Sather	Northern State	6	61–94	33–51	0	0	0
North Dakota State	David Richman	North Dakota State (Assistant)	11	187–131	97–62	3	2	0
Omaha	Chris Crutchfield	Oregon (Assistant)	3	23–40	11–23	0	0	0
Oral Roberts	Russell Springmann	Oral Roberts (Assistant)	2	12–19	5–11	0	0	0
St. Thomas	John Tauer	St. Thomas (Assistant)	13	266–100^	22–30	0	0^^	0^^^
South Dakota	Eric Peterson	Utah (Assistant)	3	24–38	12–22	0	0	0
South Dakota State	Eric Henderson	South Dakota State (Assistant)	6	109–48	65–15	2	2	0

Notes:

• Year at school includes 2024–25 season.
• Overall and Summit League records are from the time at their current school and are through the end of the 2023–24 season.
• NCAA tournament appearances are from the time at current school only.

^218 wins and 50 losses at the Division III level

^^8 NCAA Division III Tournaments

^^^4 NCAA Division III Sweet 16s, 2 NCAA Division III Final Fours, and 1 NCAA Division III National Championship

Preseason awards

The preseason Summit League men's basketball polls were released on October 8, 2024.

Preseason poll

First place votes in parenthesis

1. Kansas City (17) – 514
2. South Dakota State (12) – 474
3. North Dakota State (3) – 384
4. St. Thomas – 308
5. Oral Roberts (2) – 305
6. North Dakota (1) – 283
7. South Dakota (1) – 250
8. Omaha – 159
9. Denver – 158

Preseason honors

Honor	Recipient
Preseason Player of the Year	Issac McBride, Oral Roberts
Preseason All-Summit League First Team	Kendall Blue, St. Thomas
	Jamar Brown, Kansas City
	Treysen Eaglestaff, North Dakota
	Amar Kuljuhovic, North Dakota
	Issac McBride, Oral Roberts
	Kaleb Stewart, South Dakota
Preseason All-Summit League Second Team	Oscar Cluff, South Dakota State
	DeAndre Craig, Denver
	Kalen Garry, South Dakota State
	Marquel Sutton, Omaha
	Jacari White, North Dakota State

Regular season

Conference standings

Current as of February 13, 2025

		Conference		Overall
Rank	Team	Record	Percent	Record	Percent	Tiebreaker
1	Omaha	10–2	.833	16–11	.593
2	St. Thomas	9–2	.818	19–7	.731
3	South Dakota State	8–3	.727	17–9	.654
4	South Dakota	7–4	.636	16–10	.615
5	North Dakota State	7–5	.583	18–9	.667
6	Kansas City	3–9	.250	11–16	.407
7	Denver	3–9	.250	9–18	.333
8	North Dakota	3–9	.250	9–18	.333
9	Oral Roberts	2–9	.182	6–18	.250

Conference matrix

	Denver	Kansas City	North Dakota	North Dakota State	Omaha	Oral Roberts	St. Thomas	South Dakota	South Dakota State
vs. Denver	–	0–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	2–0	2–0	1–0
vs. Kansas City	1–0	–	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–0
vs. North Dakota	1–1	1–1	–	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–1
vs. North Dakota State	0–1	0–2	0–1	–	2–0	0–2	2–0	0–1	1–0
vs. Omaha	0–2	0–1	0–2	0–2	–	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–1
vs. Oral Roberts	1–0	1–1	0–1	2–0	1–0	–	1–0	2–0	1–0
vs. St. Thomas	0–2	0–1	0–1	0–2	1–0	0–1	–	0–1	1–1
vs. South Dakota	0–2	1–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–2	1–0	–	1–0
vs. South Dakota State	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	–
Total	3–9	3–9	3–9	7–5	10–2	2–9	9–2	7–4	8–3

Through February 13, 2025

Players of the Week

Week	Player(s) of the Week	School
Nov. 11	Oscar Cluff	South Dakota State
Nov. 18	Treysen Eaglestaff	North Dakota
Nov. 25	Marquel Sutton	Omaha
Dec. 2	Oscar Cluff (2)	South Dakota State (2)
Dec. 9	Jackson Moni	North Dakota State
Dec. 16	Chase Forte	South Dakota
	Jackson Moni (2)	North Dakota State (2)
Dec. 23	Treysen Eaglestaff (2)	North Dakota (2)
Dec. 30	Jackson Moni (3)	North Dakota State (3)
Jan. 6	Miles Barnstable	St. Thomas
	Oscar Cluff (3)	South Dakota State (3)
Jan. 13	Issac McBride	Oral Roberts
Jan. 20	Oscar Cluff (4)	South Dakota State (4)
Jan. 27	JJ White	Omaha (2)
Feb. 3	Dre Bullock	South Dakota (2)
Feb. 10	Jamar Brown	Kansas City

Records against other conferences

As of December 30, 2024:

Major 6 Conferences	Record	Major 6 Conferences	Record
ACC	0–2	American	1–3
Big East	1–1	Big Ten	0–4
Big 12	0–6	SEC	0–3
Major 6 Total			2–19
Other Division I Conferences	Record	Other Division I Conferences	Record
Atlantic 10	1–0	ASUN	2–0
America East	0–1	Big Sky	13–10
Big South	None	Big West	3–5
CAA	None	Conference USA	None
Horizon League	1–1	Ivy League	None
Independents	None	MAAC	None
MAC	5–1	MEAC	None
MVC	1–5	MWC	0–6
NEC	None	OVC	1–2
Patriot League	0–1	SoCon	1–2
Southland	3–1	SWAC	1–2
Sun Belt	1–0	WAC	3–4
WCC	3–2
Other Division I Total			32–41
NCAA Division I Total			39–63
NCAA Division II Total			6–1
NCAA Division III Total			4–0
NAIA Total			11–0
NCCAA Total			5–0
Total Non-Conference Record			65–64

Record against ranked non-conference opponents

Summit League records against ranked teams (rankings from AP Poll, Summit teams in Bold):

Date	Visitor	Home	Site	Score	Conference record	Reference
November 11	Kansas City	No. 7 Iowa State	Hilton Coliseum Ames, IA	L 56–82	0–1
November 16	Kansas City	No. 14 Creighton	CHI Health Center Omaha Omaha, NE	L 56–79	0–2
December 15	Omaha	No. 3 Iowa State	Hilton Coliseum Ames, IA	L 51–83	0–3
December 18	No. 7 Alabama	North Dakota	Betty Engelstad Sioux Center Grand Forks, ND	L 90–97	0–4
December 29	South Dakota State	No. 5 Alabama	Coleman Coliseum Tuscaloosa, AL	L 82–105	0–5

Points scored

Team	For	Against	Difference
Denver	1897	2064	–167
Kansas City	1926	1744	+182
North Dakota	2015	2070	–55
North Dakota State	2092	1904	+188
Omaha	1979	1939	+40
Oral Roberts	1722	1807	–85
St. Thomas	2195	1958	+237
South Dakota	2142	2079	+63
South Dakota State	2008	1802	+206

Through February 8, 2025

Home attendance

Team	Arena	Capacity	Total Games	Average Attendance	Attendance High	Total Attendance	% of Capacity
Denver	Hamilton Gymnasium	2,500	12	764	1,148 Dec 21 vs. Northern Colorado	9,178	30.6%
Kansas City	Swinney Recreation Center	1,500	12	871	1,534 Jan 25 vs. St. Thomas	10,457	58.1%
North Dakota	Betty Engelstad Sioux Center	3,300	12	1,879	3,085 Dec 18 vs. 6 Alabama	22,557	57.0%
North Dakota State	Scheels Center	5,460	12	1,739	5,198 Jan 25 vs. North Dakota	20,875	31.9%
Omaha	Baxter Arena	7,898	10	2,397	3,356 Feb 1 vs. Denver	23,977	30.4%
Oral Roberts	Mabee Center	10,154	10	3,306	4,811 Nov 16 vs. Haskell	33,060	32.6%
St. Thomas	Schoenecker Arena	1,800	10	1,348	2,068 Feb 2 vs. North Dakota St	13,481	74.9%
South Dakota	Sanford Coyote Sports Center	6,000	13	1,701	2,013 Nov 4 vs. Southern	22,123	28.4%
South Dakota State	First Bank and Trust Arena	6,500	12	2,861	4,764 Jan 25 vs. South Dakota	34,332	44.0%

Bold - Exceed capacity
As of February 13, 2025
Does not include exhibition games

National Television Games

Any games that league members will play on National Television, including the Summit League's media contract with CBS Sports Network, are listed here.

Summit League members in bold

Date Time (CT)	Road Team	Home Team	Final Score	Network
November 16, 2024 6 PM	Kansas City	No. 14 Creighton	L 56–79	FS2
December 10, 2024 7 PM	North Dakota State	Butler	W 71–68	FS1
December 15, 2024 12 PM	Omaha	No. 3 Iowa State	L 51–83	CBSSN
December 18, 2024 8 PM	No. 7 Alabama	North Dakota	L 90–97	CBSSN
January 2, 2025 8 PM	Denver	South Dakota State	70–91	CBSSN
January 8, 2025 7 PM	Kansas City	Omaha	58–77	CBSSN
February 2, 2025 3 PM	North Dakota State	St. Thomas	62–79	CBSSN
February 13, 2025 8 PM	Oral Roberts	North Dakota State	88–94OT	CBSSN
February 16, 2025 1 PM	South Dakota State	South Dakota		CBSSN
February 23, 2025 1 PM	Kansas City	South Dakota State		CBSSN

Postseason

Conference tournament

Main article: 2025 Summit League men's basketball tournament

All 9 teams qualify for the Summit League tournament. The tournament is held at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It will be held from March 5 to 9, 2024.

	First Round March 5 Summit League Network					Quarterfinals March 6 & 7 Summit League Network					Semifinals March 8 CBS Sports Network					Championship March 9 CBS Sports Network
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