The Summit League Basketball Tournament each and every year is one of the marquee events that calls Sioux Falls home.

Held at the Denny Sanford Premier Center, the Tournament has had many different iterations over the years, and more changes are coming as soon as the Spring of 2025.

Change may sometimes not be popular, but this year's changes should be a big win for the fans and the tournament as a whole.

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The tournaments for both the Men and Women will now run from Wednesday through Sunday, as opposed to title games on Tuesday in the past. In addition, the 9-team conference tournament will remain with all 9 teams in attendance:

Summit League Commissioner Josh Fenton announced date changes for the 2025 and 2026 Basketball Championships Wednesday. The 2025 tournaments will be held Wednesday-Sunday, March 5-9 at the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center in Sioux Falls, S.D. The 2026 tournaments will be held March 4-8.

All nine League members will once again participate with title games moving to Sunday from their accustomed Tuesday dates.

Change is good, and in this case, change is GREAT.

Any chance we can get to get more people in the seats for the title games, especially over a weekend is welcomed.

This should go over very well with the very supportive Sioux Falls crowds, and also help ensure that fan bases that have more travel than SDSU and USD in store can be more well represented when they make the later rounds of the Tournament.

It's a win-win and another welcome change to an already amazing event held annually here in Sioux Falls.

For more information on the Summit League Tournament and the format change, find the official release here.

Source: TheSummitLeague.com

The 10 Largest Occupations in South Dakota

Where do people in South Dakota work?

If you were a South Dakotan a hundred years ago, chances are you had a job related to farming or ranching. If you weren't doing the farming, you were selling things to the farmers, fixing things for the farmers, or buying things from the farmers.

In the 2020s, things are very different.

Most of us in the SD work in health care or the service industry in one way or another. In fact, there are more nurses in South Dakota than the entire population of the state capital, Pierre.

Today far more people work at a store or restaurant than have probably ever even been on a farm. Time passes and things change, always. Fifty years from now who knows what jobs South Dakotans will be doing

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, these are the top 10 largest occupations in South Dakota (as of 2022).

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Where do people in Sioux Falls work? If this was fifty years ago the average Sioux Fallsian worked in some industrial, meat packing, or farm-related position. Sioux Falls has also been the major regional medical center for decades.

Customer service and other retail-related jobs have always been a part of the Sioux Empire's economy. But in recent years those industries have become major employers.

If you live in Sioux Falls, there's a pretty good chance you work one of these jobs. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, these are the top 10 largest occupations in Sioux Falls (as of 2022).

Gallery Credit: Ben Kuhns

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