The Summit League put a wrap on the men’s basketball season by listing a series of accomplishments for the conference.
1) The Summit League finished 14th, a new all-time high mark, among the 32 D-I leagues in the USA Today Jeff Sagarin Rankings.
2) The Summit League produced a pair of Academic All-America honorees for the second consecutive season and third time in the past four years when North Dakota State’s A.J. Jacobson earned a first team nod and IUPUI’s Matt O’Leary was a third team selection.
3) Oral Roberts’ Albert Owens was named to the Athletic Directors Association (ADA) Division I-AAA Scholar-Athlete team. He became the league’s sixth honoree in the past eight seasons.
4) The Summit League sent at least three teams, or one-third of its membership, to postseason play for the sixth consecutive season. With Fort Wayne’s CIT victory, at least one Summit team has advanced in a national postseason tournament in three of the past four seasons.
5) Fort Wayne’s CIT Quarterfinal appearance marked The Summit League’s deepest postseason tournament run since the CIT semifinals in 2012.
6) South Dakota State’s Mike Daum finished the season with a league-best 25.1 points per game, the fifth-highest per game average in league history and the best since 2011-12. Daum’s 878 points were the second-most in league annals while his free throws made (251) and attempted (289) totals ranked third all-time.
7) Daum, The Summit League Player of the Year and Tournament MVP, posted 37 points, second most all-time, and 12 rebounds, seventh-best in history, during the league championship game. He became just the second Division I player in the last 20 seasons to score 50 points and pull down 15 rebounds in a game when he posted a 51/15 line on Feb. 18. He was also the only D-I player to have 40 points, 10 rebounds and 10 three-pointers in a 2016-17 game, when he did so on Jan. 21.
8) South Dakota State moved through The Summit League Tournament bracket as the No. 4 seed, capping its run by defeating Omaha, 79-77, for its second consecutive title and fourth in the past six seasons.
9) The Summit League Men’s Basketball Tournament in Sioux Falls, S.D. set attendance records for overall attendance (39,9,912) and individual session (11,235).
10) According to KenPom, The Summit League led the nation in SIX categories: efficiency (110.8), tempo (71.9), effective FG% (54.2), turnover % (16.3), 3P% (39.6), and FT% (74.2).
