2024–25 Summit League women's basketball season

2024–25 Summit League women'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 women's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
St. Thomas*	0	–	0		–			3	–	0		1.000
South Dakota State	0	–	0		–			2	–	0		1.000
North Dakota	0	–	0		–			1	–	0		1.000
Kansas City	0	–	0		–			2	–	1		.667
North Dakota State	0	–	0		–			1	–	1		.500
Oral Roberts	0	–	0		–			1	–	1		.500
Omaha	0	–	0		–			1	–	2		.333
Denver	0	–	0		–			0	–	2		.000
South Dakota	0	–	0		–			0	–	2		.000
* Ineligible for the 2025 NCAA tournament due to transition from Division III
† 2025 Summit League tournament winner As of November 10, 2024

The 2024–25 Summit League women's basketball season began non-conference play on November 4, 2024. Conference play will begin on January 2, 2025 and will end on March 1, 2025 to setup the 2025 Summit League women's basketball tournament. This will be the eighteenth season of women's basketball play under the Summit League name and forty-third overall for the conference.

Preseason

The preseason Summit League women's basketball poll was released on October 8, 2024.

Preseason poll

First place votes in parenthesis

1. South Dakota State (34) – 562
2. Oral Roberts (1) – 479
3. North Dakota State (1) – 427
4. South Dakota – 363
5. St. Thomas – 336
6. Denver – 220
7. North Dakota – 188
8. Kansas City – 144
9. Omaha – 116

Preseason awards

Honor	Recipient
Preseason Player of the Year	Brooklyn Meyer, South Dakota State
Preseason All-Summit League First Team	Jordan Jones, Denver
	Taleyah Jones, Oral Roberts
	Grace Larkins, South Dakota
	Brooklyn Meyer, South Dakota State
	Paige Meyer, South Dakota State
	Ruthie Udoumoh, Oral Roberts
Preseason All-Summit League Second Team	Grace Cave, Omaha
	Jade Hill, St. Thomas
	Jalei Oglesby, Oral Roberts
	Amber Scalia, St. Thomas
	Haleigh Timmer, South Dakota State

Regular season

Records against other conferences

2024–25 records against non-conference foes as of November 10, 2024:

Major 6 Conferences	Record	Major 6 Conferences	Record
ACC	None	American	1–0
Big East	1–0	Big Ten	0–1
Big 12	0–1	SEC	None
Major 6 Total			2–2
Other Division I Conferences	Record	Other Division I Conferences	Record
Atlantic 10	0–1	ASUN	None
America East	None	Big Sky	None
Big South	None	Big West	None
CAA	None	Conference USA	None
Horizon League	1–0	Ivy League	None
Independents	None	MAAC	None
MAC	1–0	MEAC	None
MVC	0–1	MWC	1–1
NEC	None	OVC	2–1
Patriot League	None	SoCon	None
Southland	None	SWAC	None
Sun Belt	None	WAC	0–1
WCC	0–1
Other Division I Total			5–6
NCAA Division I Total			7–8
NCAA Division II Total			2–1
NCAA Division III Total			1–0
NAIA Total			1–0
NCCAA Total			0–0
Total Non-Conference Record			11–9

Record against ranked non-conference opponents

This will be a list of games against ranked opponents only (rankings from the AP Poll):
Summit League teams in bold

Date	Visitor	Home	Site	Score	Conference record	Ref
November 4, 2024	Omaha	No. 23 Nebraska	Pinnacle Bank Arena ● Lincoln, NE	L 48–88	0–1
November 8, 2024	No. 21 Creighton	South Dakota State	First Bank and Trust Arena ● Brookings, SD	W 76–71	1–1

Team rankings are reflective of AP poll

† denotes game was played at neutral site
^ denotes NCAA tournament game

Conference matrix

	Denver	Kansas City	North Dakota	North Dakota State	Omaha	Oral Roberts	St. Thomas	South Dakota	South Dakota State
vs. Denver	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
vs. Kansas City	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
vs. North Dakota	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
vs. North Dakota State	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
vs. Omaha	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
vs. Oral Roberts	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
vs. St. Thomas	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
vs. South Dakota	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
vs. South Dakota State	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Total	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0

Through October 8, 2024

Points scored

Team	For	Against	Difference
Denver	0	0	+
Kansas City	128	149	–21
North Dakota	0	0	+
North Dakota State	78	84	–6
Omaha	48	88	–40
Oral Roberts	99	74	+25
St. Thomas	84	81	+3
South Dakota	83	85	–2
South Dakota State	0	0	+

Through November 6, 2024

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 17, 2024 2:30 PM	Duke	South Dakota State		CBSSN
February 8, 2025 11 AM	Oral Roberts	South Dakota State		CBSSN

Home attendance

Team	Arena	Capacity	Total Games	Average Attendance	Attendance High	Total Attendance	% of Capacity
Denver	Hamilton Gymnasium	2,500	1	328	—	328	13.1%
Kansas City	Swinney Recreation Center	1,500	1	355	—	355	23.7%
North Dakota	Betty Engelstad Sioux Center	3,300	1	1,712	—	1,712	51.9%
North Dakota State	Scheels Center	5,460	2	912	1,073 Nov 4 vs. Drake	1,825	16.7%
Omaha	Baxter Arena	7,898	2	2,586	4,866 Nov 7 vs. College of Saint Mary	5,172	32.7%
Oral Roberts	Mabee Center	10,154	1	4,836	—	4,836	47.6%
St. Thomas	Schoenecker Arena	1,800	2	422	538 Nov 4 vs. Milwaukee	845	23.5%
South Dakota	Sanford Coyote Sports Center	6,000	1	1,953	—	1,953	32.6%
South Dakota State	First Bank and Trust Arena	6,500	1	3,208	—	3,208	49.4%

Bold - Exceed capacity
As of November 10, 2024
Does not include exhibition games

Head coaches

Coaching changes

South Dakota

On April 23, 2024, Kayla Karius left South Dakota after two seasons to return to Green Bay as head coach. Soon after, on April 30, 2024, former Idaho head coach Carrie Eighmey was named as the Coyotes' new head coach.

Coaches

Note: Stats shown are before the beginning of the season. Overall and Summit League records are from time at current school.

Team	Head coach	Previous job	Seasons at school	Overall record	Summit record	Summit titles	NCAA tournaments	NCAA Sweet Sixteen	NCAA Championships
Denver	Doshia Woods	Tulane (recruiting coordinator)	5th	37–76 (.327)	23–43 (.348)	0	0	0	0
Kansas City	Dionnah Jackson-Durrett	Texas (Associate head coach)	3rd	21–53 (.284)	6–28 (.176)	0	0	0	0
North Dakota	Mallory Bernhard	North Dakota (assistant)	5th	45–68 (.398)	27–40 (.403)	0	0	0	0
North Dakota State	Jory Collins	Kansas (assistant)	6th	77–70 (.524)	48-36 (.571)	0	0	0	0
Omaha	Carrie Banks	Ohio State (assistant)	5th	37–72 (.339)	18–45 (.286)	0	0	0	0
Oral Roberts	Kelsi Musick	Southwestern Oklahoma State	3rd	33–30 (.524)	19–15 (.559)	0	0	0	0
St. Thomas	Ruth Sinn	Apple Valley HS	20th	391–142 (.734)	18–34 (.346) †	0	0	0	0
South Dakota	Carrie Eighmey	Idaho	1st	0–0 (–)	0–0 (–)	0	0	0	0
South Dakota State	Aaron Johnston	South Dakota State (assistant)	25th	598–191 (.758)	244–34 (.878)	11	12	1	0

Notes:

• † St. Thomas joined the Summit League in the summer of 2021.
• Overall and Summit League records, conference titles, etc. are from time at current school and are through the end the 2023–24 season.
• NCAA tournament appearances are from time at current school only.

Awards and honors

Players of the week

Throughout the regular season, the Summit League offices will name one or two players of the week each Monday.

Week	Player(s) of the Week	School

Postseason

Summit League tournament

Main article: 2025 Summit League women's basketball tournament

All 9 teams qualify for the Summit League tournament. It is held at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The tournament will be held from March 5 to March 9, 2025.

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