2013 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2013 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 201213
Teams 7
Site Dahlberg Arena
Missoula, Montana
Television ESPNU (final)
Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments
«2012  2014»
2012–13 Big Sky men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Montana 19 1   .950     25 7   .781
Weber State 18 2   .900     30 7   .811
North Dakota 12 8   .600     16 17   .485
Montana State 10 10   .500     13 17   .433
Northern Colorado 10 10   .500     13 18   .419
Sacramento State 8 12   .400     14 15   .483
Southern Utah 8 12   .400     11 20   .355
Northern Arizona 8 12   .400     11 21   .344
Eastern Washington 7 13   .350     10 21   .323
Portland State 5 15   .250     8 20   .286
Idaho State 5 15   .250     6 24   .200
2013 Big Sky Tournament winner
As of April 2, 2013; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2013 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament ran from March 14–16, 2013. The champion of the tournament, Montana, received an automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Tournament.

Format

Unlike most Division I conference tournaments in basketball, the Big Sky tournament does not involve all of the conference's teams. With the addition of North Dakota and Southern Utah to the conference for the 2012–13 season, expanding the number of teams from 9 to 11, the tournament expanded from six teams to seven. As in previous years, qualifying is based on overall conference record. The number of teams that fail to qualify also increased by one, going from three to four. All tournament games will be played at the site of the regular-season champion. The men's tournament also returns to a Thursday-Friday-Saturday format.[1] The field will be re-seeded after the first round so the #1 seed played will play the lowest remaining seed, while the highest remaining seeds will face off in the other semifinal.

Bracket

[2]

  Quarterfinals,
Thursday, March 14
Semifinals (Re-seeded),
Friday, March 15
Championship,
Saturday, March 16
ESPNU
                           
  2  Weber State 84  
7  Northern Arizona 58  
  2  Weber State 76  
    3  North Dakota 74  
3  North Dakota 69
  6  Southern Utah 52  
    2  Weber State 64
  1  Montana 67
  4  Montana State 56  
5  Northern Colorado 69  
5  Northern Colorado 56
    1  Montana 70  
      

Sacramento State, Eastern Washington, Portland State & Idaho State failed to qualify.
All times listed are Mountain

References

  1. "Big Sky MBB Prospectus". sidearmsports. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  2. "2013 Men's Basketball Championship". sidearmsports. Retrieved 21 September 2012.

External links

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