13 Schools•Division I•Est. 1982
The Summit League is an NCAA Division I non-football conference headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, entering its 43rd year of competition in 2025-26. Founded on June 18, 1982, as the Association of Mid-Continent Universities, the conference rebranded as the Mid-Continent Conference in 1989 and adopted its current name on June 1, 2007. The league currently features nine full members located primarily in the Midwestern United States, spanning from Minnesota and the Dakotas to Nebraska, Missouri, and Oklahoma, with Denver departing for the West Coast Conference in 2026. The Summit sponsors 19 championship sports — nine for men and ten for women — and does not sponsor football, though five of its members play in the FCS through the Missouri Valley Football Conference, with which the Summit formalized a partnership in 2025. The conference has produced 15 NCAA national champions, more than 140 All-Americans, and has had eight individual NCAA champions since 2007 alone. Oral Roberts captured national attention in 2021 by becoming just the second No. 15 seed in NCAA Tournament history to reach the Sweet 16, while South Dakota State and South Dakota have combined for multiple women's basketball tournament runs and WNIT titles in recent years. Oral Roberts also became the first Summit League baseball program to reach the Men's College World Series in 2023. The conference signed a media rights deal in 2023 with CBS Sports Network and Midco Sports, launching the Summit League Network to provide live streams of all member institution home games. Commissioner Josh Fenton has led the conference since 2021.
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The Summit League is an NCAA Division I non-football conference headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, entering its 43rd year of competition in 2025-26. Founded on June 18, 1982, as the Association of Mid-Continent Universities, the conference rebranded as the Mid-Continent Conference in 1989 and adopted its current name on June 1, 2007. The league currently features nine full members located primarily in the Midwestern United States, spanning from Minnesota and the Dakotas to Nebraska, Missouri, and Oklahoma, with Denver departing for the West Coast Conference in 2026. The Summit sponsors 19 championship sports — nine for men and ten for women — and does not sponsor football, though five of its members play in the FCS through the Missouri Valley Football Conference, with which the Summit formalized a partnership in 2025. The conference has produced 15 NCAA national champions, more than 140 All-Americans, and has had eight individual NCAA champions since 2007 alone. Oral Roberts captured national attention in 2021 by becoming just the second No. 15 seed in NCAA Tournament history to reach the Sweet 16, while South Dakota State and South Dakota have combined for multiple women's basketball tournament runs and WNIT titles in recent years. Oral Roberts also became the first Summit League baseball program to reach the Men's College World Series in 2023. The conference signed a media rights deal in 2023 with CBS Sports Network and Midco Sports, launching the Summit League Network to provide live streams of all member institution home games. Commissioner Josh Fenton has led the conference since 2021.
Official Website