2023 Summit League women's basketball tournament

The 2023 Summit League women's basketball Tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Summit League for the 2022-23 season. All tournament games were played at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from March 3–7, 2023.

Seeds All ten conference teams participated in the tournament following a change announced before the season began. It was the first year that St. Thomas participated in a Division I conference tournament in any sport. Teams were seeded by regular-season conference record, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The tiebreakers operated in the following order: Head-to-head record Record against the top-seeded team not involved in the tie, going down through the standings until the tie is broken

SeedSchoolConf. recordTiebreaker(s)1 18–0 2 12–6 3 11–7 4 10–8 5 8–10 4–0 vs Denver, Omaha6 8–10 2–2 vs Denver, Oral Roberts7 8–10 0–4 vs Omaha, Oral Roberts8 7–119 5–1310 3–15

Schedule and results GameTime Matchup ScoreTelevision First Round - Friday, March 3112:30 pmNo. 8 St. Thomas vs. No. 9 Western Illinois61–50MidcoSN/ESPN+23:00 pmNo. 7 Denver vs. No. 10 Kansas City66–65 Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 4312:30 pmNo. 1 South Dakota State vs. No. 8 St. Thomas87–59MidcoSN/ESPN+43:00 pmNo. 2 North Dakota State vs. No. 10 Kansas City71–64 Quarterfinals – Sunday, March 5512:30 pmNo. 4 South Dakota vs. No. 5 Oral Roberts92–69MidcoSN/ESPN+63:00 pmNo. 3 North Dakota vs. No. 6 Omaha84–81 Semifinals - Monday, March 6712:30 pmNo. 1 South Dakota State vs. No. 5 Oral Roberts87–60MidcoSN/ESPN+83:00 pmNo. 10 Kansas City vs. No. 6 Omaha69–60 Final – Tuesday, March 791:00 pmNo. 1 South Dakota State vs. No. 6 Omaha93–51ESPNU *Game times in CST. Rankings denote tournament seed.Reference:

Bracket

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All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament team: Player School Haleigh Timmer (MVP) South Dakota State Paige Meyer South Dakota State Myah Selland South Dakota State Elena Pilakouta Omaha Manna Mensah Kansas City

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