The 2024–25 Summit League women's basketball season began non-conference play on November 4, 2024. Conference play began on January 2, 2025 and ended on March 1, 2025. This was the eighteenth season of women's basketball play under the

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name and forty-third overall for the conference.
The Summit League tournament took place from March 5–9, 2025.

South Dakota State South Dakota State University (SDSU or SD State) is a public land-grant research university in Brookings, South Dakota, United States. Founded in 1881, it is the state's largest university and is the second oldest continually operating universit ...

won the tournament, defeating

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in the tournament final, and advanced to the NCAA tournament. Oral Roberts played in the

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(WBIT).

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played in the

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(WNIT).

Preseason

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

Preseason poll

''First place votes in parentheses'' # South Dakota State (34) – 562 # Oral Roberts (1) – 479 # North Dakota State (1) – 427 # South Dakota – 363 # St. Thomas – 336 # Denver – 220 # North Dakota – 188 # Kansas City – 144 # Omaha – 116

Preseason awards

Regular season

Records against other conferences

2024–25 records against non-conference foes as of December 30, 2024:

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 ''Team rankings are reflective of AP poll'' ''† denotes game was played at neutral site''
''^ denotes NCAA tournament game''

Conference matrix

''Through March 1, 2025''

Points scored

''Through March 17, 2025''

National Television Games

Any games that league members will play on National Television, including the Summit League's media contract with

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, are listed here. Summit League members in bold

Home attendance

Bold - Exceed capacity
As of March 1, 2025
''Does not include exhibition games''

Head coaches

Coaching changes

South Dakota

On April 23, 2024,

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left South Dakota after two seasons to return to Green Bay as head coach. Soon after, on April 30, 2024, former

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head coach

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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. ''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.

All–League Honors

The All-Summit League teams and individual awards were announced on March 4, ahead of the Summit League tournament.

Postseason

Summit League tournament

All 9 teams qualified for the Summit League tournament. It was held at the

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. The tournament was held from March 5 to March 9, 2025.

NCAA tournament

Only South Dakota State was selected to participate in the tournament as the conference's automatic bid.

WBIT

Oral Roberts was selected to participate in the tournament as an at-large bid.

WNIT

North Dakota State was selected to participate in the tournament as an at-large bid.

References