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The Summit League reaches the peak of its season in its usual home, Sioux Falls. A conference schedule of back-to-backs saw the regular season title in the balance until the final day, when North Dakota State’s win in Vermillion handed the trophy to South Dakota State.
It was the fifth season in a row that a team from the Dakotas won the title outright and, not surprisingly, the league’s auto bid has been split between NDSU and SDSU each year since 2011. Will a decade of Dakota dominance continue this year? That well may be the case with the Bison and Jacks again the class of the league, and with a shorthanded South Dakota waiting in the wings.