North Dakota State beforehand claimed Commissioner’s Cup titles in 2011-12, 2016-17, and 2017-18. NDSU is certainly one of 4 establishments to win the award since its inception in 1995-96.
Under the path of Director of Athletics Matt Larsen, the Bison assembled a balanced season highlighted by championships in males’s and girls’s indoor and outside observe & discipline, males’s basketball and males’s golf. NDSU additionally swept the boys’s and girls’s common season basketball titles. North Dakota State added helpful factors all through the autumn, winter and spring seasons to edge the remainder of the sphere and end 5.5 factors away from the Jackrabbits.
North Dakota State additionally claimed the Dr. William Steinbrecher Men’s All-Sports Award after totaling 38 factors on the boys’s facet. SDSU completed second with 31 factors, whereas South Dakota positioned third with 29 factors.
Summit League Commissioner Josh Fenton introduced the trophy to North Dakota State on the league’s annual Joint Council conferences held in Minneapolis this week.
The Cup is given yearly to the member establishment that collects probably the most mixed factors in relationship to its placement within the common season standings for males’s and girls’s soccer, volleyball, males’s and girls’s basketball, males’s and girls’s tennis, softball and baseball and its championship placement in males’s and girls’s cross nation, swimming and diving, indoor observe & discipline, outside observe & discipline, and golf.
Standings for the 2025-26 Commissioner’s Cup and the Dr. William Steinbrecher Men’s All-Sports and Dr. Helen Smiley Women’s All-Sports Awards are listed under. The breakdown of every establishment’s factors and finishes inside every sport may be discovered on the Commissioner’s Cup webpage.
2025-26 FINAL STANDINGS
Commissioner’s Cup
| Place | School | Points |
| 1. | North Dakota State | 87 |
| 2. | South Dakota State | 81.5 |
| 3. | South Dakota | 80.5 |
| 4. | St. Thomas | 67.5 |
| 5. | Denver | 63 |
| 6. | North Dakota | 57 |
| 7. | Oral Roberts | 56.5 |
| 8. | Omaha | 49 |
| 9. | Kansas City | 37 |
Dr. William Steinbrecher Men’s All-Sports Award
| Place | School | Points |
| 1. | North Dakota State | 38 |
| 2. | South Dakota State | 31 |
| 3. | South Dakota | 29 |
| 4. | Denver | 26.5 |
| 5. | St. Thomas | 26 |
| 6. | Oral Roberts | 25 |
| 7. | North Dakota | 21 |
| 8. | Omaha | 18 |
| 9. | Kansas City | 14.5 |
Dr. Helen Smiley Women’s All-Sports Award
| Place | School | Points |
| 1. | South Dakota | 51.5 |
| 2. | South Dakota State | 50.5 |
| 3. | North Dakota State | 49 |
| 4. | St. Thomas | 41.5 |
| 5. | Denver | 36.5 |
| 6. | North Dakota | 36 |
| 7. | Oral Roberts | 31.5 |
| 8. | Omaha | 31 |
| 9. | Kansas City | 22.5 |