2007 Mid-Continent Conference men's basketball tournament
2007 Mid-Continent Conference men's basketball tournament | |
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Classification | Division I |
Season | 2006–07 |
Teams | 8 |
Site | Union Multipurpose Activity Center Tulsa, Oklahoma |
Champions | Oral Roberts (2nd title) |
Winning coach | Scott Sutton (2nd title) |
Top scorer | Caleb Green (Oral Roberts) (78 points) |
Mid-Continent Conference men's basketball tournaments |
The 2007 Mid-Continent Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place between Saturday, March 2, 2007 and Tuesday, March 5, 2007 at the John Q. Hammons Arena in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The Oral Roberts Golden Eagles won the championship to secure their 4th trip to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.
This was the conference's final tournament under the Mid-Continent Conference name. During the 2007 offseason, the MCC adopted its current name of The Summit League.
Format
Each of the 8 men's basketball teams in the Mid-Continent Conference received a berth in the conference tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record with the following tie-breakers:
- Head-to-head competition
- Winning percentage vs. ranked conference teams (starting with #1 and moving down until the tie is broken)
- Coin flip
Seeding
The following were the seeds for the conference tournament, along with conference record.
- Oral Roberts, 12–2
- Oakland, 10–4
- Valparaiso, 9–5
- IUPUI, 7–7
- Southern Utah, 6–8 *
- UMKC, 6–8
- Western Illinois, 3–11 **
- Centenary, 3–11
* Received #5 seed based on 1–1 record vs. #3 Valparaiso while UMKC had an 0–2 record vs. Valparaiso. The teams split head-to-head and had identical records vs. #1 Oral Roberts (0–2) and #2 Oakland (0–2).
** Received #7 seed based on 1–1 record vs. #2 Oakland while Centenary had an 0–2 record vs. Oakland. The teams split head-to-head and had identical records vs. #1 Oral Roberts (0–2).
Bracket
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Championship Game | ||||||||||||
1 | Oral Roberts | 79 | ||||||||||||
8 | Centenary | 59 | ||||||||||||
1 | Oral Roberts | 75 | ||||||||||||
4 | IUPUI | 54 | ||||||||||||
4 | IUPUI | 71 | ||||||||||||
5 | Southern Utah | 59 | ||||||||||||
1 | Oral Roberts | 71 | ||||||||||||
2 | Oakland | 67 | ||||||||||||
2 | Oakland | 74 | ||||||||||||
7 | Western Illinois | 57 | ||||||||||||
2 | Oakland | 83 | ||||||||||||
6 | UMKC | 79 | ||||||||||||
3 | Valparaiso | 76 | ||||||||||||
6 | UMKC | 84 |