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Below are the Reaching the Summit Women’s Basketball Players of the Week. Our voters selected a senior, junior, sophomore, and freshman student-athlete they thought deserved this weekly award. Enjoy! SENIOR OF THE WEEK: Liv Korngable, South Dakota (@Liv_Korn) I’m sure it had nothing to do with us having Liv on our Second Team preseason…
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Yesterday the 1st team was posted, time for the 2nd team. First a reminder of the 1st team G KJ Hunt Denver G Issac McBride Oral Roberts G Trenton Massner Western Illinois F Courtney Brown St. Thomas F Akol Arop Omaha Reaching the Summit All-Newcomer 2nd team G Erik Oliver, South Dakota South Dakota…
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Time to celebrate the Summit League players that are returning that are primed for a breakout in year 2. To make this list a player had to score in single digits last year and is prime for a big role this season. 1st Team All-Breakout G Bentiu Panoam, North Dakota In his second season…
We are going to spend the next week getting you ready for Summit League action, which kicks off as does the entire college basketball world. It seemed the best way to kick off preview week is to give you one player from each Summit League team that is worth watching and one player from each…
In today’s college basketball world, a critical piece to building your team is signing transfers. The Summit League as a whole was not hit as hard by transfer losses as other conferences were. In fact 2 of the top contenders South Dakota State and North Dakota State were not hit with any major losses and…
The purpose of this article is really two-fold. 1. Catch up on what your favorite Summit League Alums have been doing recently in pro basketball, and then I will put together a list of the 10 players I would add to a Summit League TBT team. If you are unsure what the TBT is, it…
One year ago tomorrow, the North Dakota State Bison were on the court at the Summit League Tournament celebrating a birth to the NCAA Tournament, looking forward to finding out who they would be playing on selection Sunday. That like much of life over the last year was disrupted by Covid. So the Bison were…
In their last game, South Dakota came out against North Dakota State and played inspired basketball for a half in their first game without AJ Plitzuweit. Then they fell behind and got buried by the Bison. This led a certain Reaching the Summit Writer to pick them to lose in the opening round to Western…
Player of the Year There are many deserving candidates for player of the year in the Summit League this year too. Nothing highlights this better than the fact that five players received votes for player of the year from our voters. These players included South Dakota’s Stanley Umude and AJ Plitzuweit, Oral Roberts’ Max Abmas…
I heard it suggested on a local podcast earlier this week that no one cared who won the regular season Summit League title. On the surface his assertion made sense. It seemed nearly every seed other than the one seed had won the title in recent years. Saturday afternoon in Vermillion, I learned differently however. …