2023–24 Summit League men's basketball season

The 2023–24 Summit League men's basketball season started non-conference play on November 6, 2023, and began conference play on December 29, 2023. The regular season ended on March 2, 2024, and set up the 2024 Summit League men's basketball tournament from March 8 to March 12, 2024. South Dakota State finished league play with a 12-4 record as the regular season champion. In the postseason, after winning the Summit League tournament, South Dakota State was slotted as a 15 seed in the 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. They lost to Iowa State in the first round.

Conference Changes
Following the end of the 2023 Spring sports regular season, Western Illinois announced they would be leaving the Summit League effective July 1, 2023 for the Ohio Valley Conference in all sports except men's soccer.

Oral Roberts
On March 23, 2023, sixth-year coach Paul Mills left Oral Roberts for the head coaching job at Wichita State. Then, on March 24, 2023, Russell Springmann was announced as the next head coach for the Golden Eagles. Springmann was previously an assistant at Oral Roberts under Mills.

Coaches
Notes:


 * Year at school includes 2023–24 season.
 * Overall and Summit League records are from the time at their current school and are through the end of the 2022–23.
 * NCAA tournament appearances are from the time at current school only.

^218 wins and 50 losses at the Division III level

^^8 NCAA Division III Tournaments

^^^4 NCAA Division III Sweet 16s, 2 NCAA Division III Final Fours, and 1 NCAA Division III National Championship

Preseason awards
The preseason Summit League men's basketball polls were released on October 10, 2023.

Preseason poll
First place votes in parentheses


 * 1) South Dakota State (27) – 600
 * 2) Oral Roberts (7) – 510
 * 3) North Dakota State (2) – 482
 * 4) St. Thomas – 386
 * 5) North Dakota – 374
 * 6) South Dakota – 274
 * 7) Omaha – 252
 * 8) Kansas City – 201
 * 9) Denver – 161

Conference standings
Current as of March 30, 2024

Conference Matrix
Through March 3, 2024

Records against other conferences
As of January 6, 2024:

Record against ranked non-conference opponents
Summit League record against ranked teams (rankings from AP Poll): Summit League teams in Bold

Points Scored
Through March 30, 2024

Home attendance
Bold - Exceed capacity As of March 2, 2024 Does not include exhibition games

National Television Games
Before the 2023-24 season began, the Summit League announced a new media deal with CBS Sports Network that would show up to 12 regular season games (6 guaranteed men's games) on the network, as well as moving the league's tournament final games to CBSSN. On October 18, 2023, the Summit League and CBS Sports Network announced the league's 2023-24 slate of games to appear on the network throughout the conference season. Those games and any others that league members played are listed here.

Summit League members in bold

All-League Honors
Source:

Conference Tournament
All 9 teams qualify for the Summit League tournament. The tournament is held at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It was held from March 8 to March 12, 2024.