OMAHA, Neb. -- The 2025 Summit League Baseball Championship is set to begin Wednesday at Tal Anderson Field with an identical bracket to the one the ballpark hosted during its inaugural season in 2021.

Co-regular season champion Oral Roberts will be the No. 1 seed again and look to avenge the only time in program history when they did not hoist the Summit League Championship trophy as the top seed. The Golden Eagles have won nine of 10 overall and eight straight in Summit play as they look for their third straight title.

No. 2 seed North Dakota State won its second tournament title that season and will be on that seed line again for the third consecutive tournament overall and fourth time in five years. The Bison secured the No. 2 seed with a 12-2, run-rule victory over Omaha in the regular season finale.

That loss left the host Mavericks as the No. 3 seed once again on their home field. They also have incentive to change the script in 2025 after going two-and-out and being the first team eliminated back in 2021. Omaha last won the postseason event in 2019.

South Dakota State returns to the championship field after missing out for just the second time in 15 years a season ago. The Jackrabbits are 10-3 combined against NDSU and Omaha but have never defeated Oral Roberts in postseason play in 18 tries. They knocked the host Mavericks out in 2021 before falling to NDSU in an elimination game.

Fans can catch all the tournament action on the Summit League Network.

UPCOMING
2025 SUMMIT LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP
Wednesday, May 21
G1: (4) SDSU vs. (1) Oral Roberts | SLN | 12 p.m.
G2: (3) Omaha vs. (2) NDSU | SLN | 6 p.m.
 
Thursday, May 22
G3: Loser G1 vs. Loser G2 | SLN | 12 p.m. 
G4: Winner G1 vs. Winner G2 | SLN | 6 p.m. 

Friday, May 23
G5: Winner G3 vs. Loser G4 | SLN | 4 p.m.

Saturday, May 24
G6: Winner G4 vs. Winner G5 | SLN | 1 p.m.
G7: Winner G6 vs. Loser G6 (If necessary) | SLN | 4 p.m.

SLN (Summit League Network)

REWIND: 2024 #SUMMITBSB CHAMPIONSHIP
Wednesday, May 22
G1: (4) Northern Colorado 4, (1) Omaha 2
G2: (3) Oral Roberts 11, (2) NDSU 3

Thursday, May 23
G3: (2) NDSU 7, (1) Omaha 5 
G4: (3) Oral Roberts 14, (4) Northern Colorado 0

Friday, May 24
(4) Northern Colorado 10, (2) NDSU 9 (10)

Saturday, May 25
G6: (3) Oral Roberts 11, (4) Northern Colorado 4

Need to Know
Location: Tal Anderson Field
Host: University of Nebraska Omaha
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Live Stream: Summit League Network
 
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CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY
Seed (Tournament record) | # of titles (last)
(1) Oral Roberts (75-7) | 22 titles (three straight; last 2024)
The Golden Eagles’ 75 victories in 24 previous tournament appearances are just eight fewer than the other 12 current and former mebers they have played combined to win in those tournaments (83).

(2) North Dakota State (17-16) | 2 titles (last 2021)
The Bison will be the No. 2 seed for the third consecutive tournament and fourth time in the last five. NDSU won its second tournament title as the No. 2 seed in 2021 when the postseason event was also played at Tal Anderson Field.

(3) Omaha (5-11) | 1 title (2019)
The Mavericks will be the No. 3 seed for the second in program history. Omaha was also the No. 3 seed the only previous time they hosted the tournment in 2021.

(4) South Dakota State (22-23) | 1 title (2014)
The Jackrabbits return to the postseason after missing out a season ago. SDSU made the title game in 2023 when the Jacks were the No. 3 seed and played Oral Roberts in the finale, falling to the Golden Eagles 12-4.

RINSE AND REPEAT
The 2025 #SummitBSB Championship will take place in Omaha, Neb., May 21-24 at Tal Anderson Field. Omaha earned the right to host the event for the second time in program history after posting a 16-3-1 in 2024.

The Mavericks’ first time hosting was in 2021 when the bracket was identical to the one for 2025. The second-seeded Bison took the “if necessary” game from top-seeded Oral Roberts to win the program’s second title (2014; only No. 4 seed to win it all).

The Golden Eagles forced the extra game thanks to a 15-5 victory. NDSU won the winner’s bracket contest 5-0 and became just the second team in league history to beat ORU twice in the same tournament. Omaha also did that en route to the 2019 title. 

AROUND THE LEAGUE
• St. Thomas rallied from a 6-0 deficit at Northern Colorado to post a 16-7 victory in Saturday’s season finale and earn a share of the program’s second straight regular season title. The Tommies won the series thanks to 12 unanswered runs with Joe Vos and Joe Roder each collecting four hits in the comeback victory that secured another trophy for head coach Chris Olean.
• The Tommies remain ineligible for postseason play and closed out their season with a program-record 21 Summit League wins and a 29-21 record, which marked their first DI season finishing above the .500 mark.
• Oral Roberts has won nine of 10 overall and eight straight in Summit play entering the tournament. The Golden Eagles won half of those games last week, sweeping a four-game road series at South Dakota State.
• ORU catcher Wailele Kane-Yates earned Kwik Star Peak Performer of the Week honors after homering four times and driving in eight runs during the series.
• In the Golden Eagles’ 9-2 win in the series finale, Brenden Asher surrendered just one earned run on five hits to earn the victory and his first career Kwik Star weekly pitching nod.
• The Golden Eagles piled up 47 runs in the four-game set against SDSU as head coach Ryan Folmar picked up 377th Summit League victory in the finale, which leaves him two shy of overtaking former Valparaiso head coach Paul Twenge (378) for the top spot on the league’s all-time charts.
• ORU has won three consecutive postseason titles all from different seed lines. A season ago, the Golden Eagles were the No. 3 seed for the first time and became the first time from that seed line to claim the trophy. In their other 21 tournament-title runs, they were the No. 1 seed 19 different times and the No. 2 seed twice. 
• ORU is the No. 1 seed in 2025 for the 21st time and the only time ORU did not win the postseason event as the top seed was in 2021, which was also the only time the event was played at Tal Anderson Field. 
• The Mavericks will look to snap a five-game losing streak in tournament play that began with the 2022 title game, which Omaha lost 21-2 to Oral Roberts in Tulsa.
• North Dakota State earned the No. 2 seed for the third straigth year thanks to a 12-2, seven-inning victory over Omaha in the only game of a three-game series that the two teams were able to play. They both entered the final weekend with 12-15 Summit League records.
• NDSU outfielder Sam Canton, who earned honorable mention honors in 2025, is the only returning player from the 2024 All-Tournament Team playing in this year’s event. Canton went 3-for-8 with two home runs and seven RBI for the Bison a season ago in Tulsa.
• SDSU earned its way back to the tournament after missing the event in 2024. It was just the second time since becoming eligible for the tournament in 2009 that the Jackrabbits failed to qualify (2012). They won their lone title a season later, shutting out NDSU 1-0 after forcing the “if necessary” game.
• The opening games of the 2025 Tournament feature matchups from the final weekend of the regular season. Oral Roberts has never lost to SDSU in tournament play, defeating the Jackrabbits in all 18 matchups, while NDSU holds a slight 3-2 edge on Omaha.
• The Golden Eagles and Jackrabbits last met in the 2023 title game in Fargo - a contest ORU won 12-4. The Bison eliminated top-seeded Omaha from the 2024 event with a 7-5 victory on the second day of the tourney.
• League officials announced their 2025 individual award winners on the eve of the championship with Omaha third baseman Henry Zipay earning Player of the Year honors. He is the second Maverick in the past four seasons to collect that honor (Mike Boeve). NDSU lefthander Nolan Johnson became the first Bison to be named Pitcher of the Year, while his shortstop Jake Schaffner was named Defensive Player of the Year.
• Oral Roberts freshman pitcher Easton Teel was named the Newcomer of the Year, while Folmar garnered his leagu-leading seventh Coach of the Year accolade.

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