SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Summit League officials released the men's and women's schedules for the upcoming 2024-25 basketball seasons Wednesday.
With nine members set once again for the 2024-25 season, the League is moving to a hybrid scheduling model for the men’s and women’s action that will see all teams play each other in home and away matchups on either Wednesday, Thursday or Saturday and also include some doubleheaders.
The opening week of the 16-game League slate will start right after the New Year Holiday on Thursday, Jan. 2 .
On the women’s side, defending regular season and tournament champion South Dakota State will open its campaign on the road at Oral Roberts, whose third-place finish at 11-5 was the program’s best since 2011-12 when the Golden Eagles finished second with a 14-4 mark.
The Jackrabbits bring a Summit League-record 47-game winning streak in Summit League play into the 2024-25 season. SDSU won its final 13 league games in 2021-22 and ran the table in each of the last two seasons (18-0; 2022-23 and 16-0; 2023-24).
The remaining trio of women’s games on opening night feature Denver at South Dakota, Omaha at North Dakota and Kansas City at St. Thomas. Last year’s runner-up North Dakota State begins its campaign Saturday, Jan. 4 against the Tommies in St. Paul.
On the men’s side, defending regular season and tournament champion South Dakota State hosts Denver in a rematch of the 2024 Summit League Championship title game in the newly renovated First Bank and Trust Arena. The Jackrabbits have won at least a share of the regular season title in six of the last seven seasons, while the Pioneers reached the title game a year ago as the No. 7 seed.
The remainder of the men’s opening-night slate includes Omaha at North Dakota, St. Thomas at North Dakota State and South Dakota at Kansas City. Oral Roberts opens play Saturday, Jan. 4 against the Roos in Kansas City.
Fans wanting to watch Summit League regular season men’s and women’s basketball can stream a majority of those games on the Summit League Network. Subscription plans are $9.99 monthly or $79.99 annually. Click
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The Summit League television partners, CBS Sports Network and Midco Sports, will also carry to-be-selected games on their linear networks throughout the season.
For the 16th-consecutive year, the men and women will culminate their seasons in Sioux Falls, S.D., as the 2025 Basketball Championships are set for the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center, March 5-9.
All nine members will participate in the event, which is now starting on Wednesday with a women’s and men’s opening-round game. Both of those opening-round games, all women’s and men’s quarterfinals and the women’s semifinals will be carried on Midco Sports and SLN, while both men’s semifinal games and the women’s and men’s title games will air nationally on CBS Sports Network.
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