# 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
| Seed | School | Conf. record | Tiebreaker(s) |
| 1 | South Dakota State | 18–0 | |
| 2 | North Dakota State | 12–6 | |
| 3 | North Dakota | 11–7 | |
| 4 | South Dakota | 10–8 | |
| 5 | Oral Roberts | 8–10 | 4–0 vs Denver, Omaha |
| 6 | Omaha | 8–10 | 2–2 vs Denver, Oral Roberts |
| 7 | Denver | 8–10 | 0–4 vs Omaha, Oral Roberts |
| 8 | St. Thomas | 7–11 | |
| 9 | Western Illinois | 5–13 | |
| 10 | Kansas City | 3–15 | |

## Schedule and results

| Game | Time | Matchup | Score | Television |
| First Round - Friday, March 3 |||||
| 1 | 12:30 pm | No. 8 St. Thomas vs. No. 9 Western Illinois | 61–50 | MidcoSN/ESPN+ |
| 2 | 3:00 pm | No. 7 Denver vs. No. 10 Kansas City | 66–65 | MidcoSN/ESPN+ |
| Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 4 |||||
| 3 | 12:30 pm | No. 1 South Dakota State vs. No. 8 St. Thomas | 87–59 | MidcoSN/ESPN+ |
| 4 | 3:00 pm | No. 2 North Dakota State vs. No. 10 Kansas City | 71–64 | MidcoSN/ESPN+ |
| Quarterfinals – Sunday, March 5 |||||
| 5 | 12:30 pm | No. 4 South Dakota vs. No. 5 Oral Roberts | 92–69 | MidcoSN/ESPN+ |
| 6 | 3:00 pm | No. 3 North Dakota vs. No. 6 Omaha | 84–81 | MidcoSN/ESPN+ |
| Semifinals - Monday, March 6 |||||
| 7 | 12:30 pm | No. 1 South Dakota State vs. No. 5 Oral Roberts | 87–60 | MidcoSN/ESPN+ |
| 8 | 3:00 pm | No. 10 Kansas City vs. No. 6 Omaha | 69–60 | MidcoSN/ESPN+ |
| Final – Tuesday, March 7 |||||
| 9 | 1:00 pm | No. 1 South Dakota State vs. No. 6 Omaha | 93–51 | ESPNU |
| *Game times in CST. Rankings denote tournament seed. Reference: |||||

## Bracket

| First Round March 3 ESPN+ | First Round March 3 ESPN+ | First Round March 3 ESPN+ | Quarterfinals March 4 & 5 ESPN+ | Quarterfinals March 4 & 5 ESPN+ | Quarterfinals March 4 & 5 ESPN+ | Semifinals March 6 ESPN+ | Semifinals March 6 ESPN+ | Semifinals March 6 ESPN+ | Championship March 7 ESPNU | Championship March 7 ESPNU | Championship March 7 ESPNU |
| | | | 1 | South Dakota State | 87 | | | | | | |
| 8 | St. Thomas | 61 | 8 | St. Thomas | 59 | | | | | | |
| 9 | Western Illinois | 50 | | | | 1 | South Dakota State | 87 | | | |
| | | | | | | 5 | Oral Roberts | 60 | | | |
| | | | 4 | South Dakota | 69 | | | | | | |
| | | | 5 | Oral Roberts | 92 | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | 1 | South Dakota State | 93 |
| | | | | | | | | | 6 | Omaha | 51 |
| | | | 2 | North Dakota State | 64 | | | | | | |
| 7 | Denver | 65 | 10 | Kansas City | 71 | | | | | | |
| 10 | Kansas City | 66 | | | | 10 | Kansas City | 60 | | | |
| | | | | | | 6 | Omaha | 69 | | | |
| | | | 3 | North Dakota | 81 | | | | | | |
| | | | 6 | Omaha | 84 | | | | | | |
Source:

## 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 |