II men's basketball tournament.
Also in 2015, Jesse Taylor, a basketball player at Dakota Wesleyan, came out as gay, making him South Dakota's first openly gay college athlete.
=== Women's basketball ===
On March 13, 2018, the women's basketball team won the first team National Championship in school history, defeating the Concordia Lady Bulldogs 82–59 in regulation play in the championship round of the 2018 NAIA Division II women's basketball tournament.
== Notable alumni ==
Clinton Presba Anderson, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, former U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressman from New Mexico
Jonathan Bane, American football player
Gordon Binkerd, American composer
Kay Brown, Minnesota state legislator
Harlan J. Bushfield, 16th Governor of South Dakota and United States senator
Francis Case, former U.S. Congressman from South Dakota
Freda DeKnight, food editor for Ebony Magazine and cookbook author
Stanley Hallett, American urban planner and neighborhood advocate
Oscar Howe, Yanktoni Dakota artist
Ben Jukich, …
