2020 Summit League men's basketball tournament
Appearance
2020 Summit League men's basketball tournament | |
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Classification | Division I |
Season | 2019–20 |
Teams | 8 |
Site | Denny Sanford Premier Center Sioux Falls, South Dakota |
Champions | North Dakota State University |
Television | MidcoSN/MidcoSN2/ESPN+/ESPN2 |
Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
North Dakota State † | 13 | – | 3 | .813 | 25 | – | 8 | .758 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
South Dakota State | 13 | – | 3 | .813 | 22 | – | 10 | .688 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
South Dakota | 10 | – | 6 | .625 | 20 | – | 12 | .625 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oral Roberts | 9 | – | 7 | .563 | 17 | – | 14 | .548 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Omaha | 9 | – | 7 | .563 | 16 | – | 16 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
North Dakota | 7 | – | 9 | .438 | 15 | – | 18 | .455 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Purdue Fort Wayne | 6 | – | 10 | .375 | 14 | – | 19 | .424 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Denver | 3 | – | 13 | .188 | 7 | – | 24 | .226 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Western Illinois | 2 | – | 14 | .125 | 5 | – | 21 | .192 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† 2020 Summit League Tournament winner |
The 2020 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament is the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Summit League for the 2019–20 season. All tournament games are to be played at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from March 7–10, 2020.[1]
Seeds
The top eight teams by conference record in the Summit League compete in the conference tournament. Teams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The tiebreakers operate in the following order:
- Head-to-head record.
- Record against the top-seeded team not involved in the tie, going down through the standings until the tie is broken.
Seed | School | Conf. record | Tiebreaker(s) |
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1 | North Dakota State | 13–3 | 1–1 vs. SDSU 2–0 vs. USD |
2 | South Dakota State | 13–3 | 1–1 vs. NDSU 1–1 vs. USD |
3 | South Dakota | 10–6 | |
4 | Oral Roberts | 9–7 | 1–1 vs. Omaha 1–1 vs. NDSU |
5 | Omaha | 9–7 | 1–1 vs. ORU 0–2 vs. NDSU |
6 | North Dakota | 7–9 | |
7 | Purdue Fort Wayne | 6–10 | |
8 | Denver | 3–13 |
Schedule and results
Game | Time | Matchup | Score | Television |
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Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 7 | ||||
1 | 6:00 pm | No. 1 North Dakota State vs. No. 8 Denver | 71–69 | MidcoSN/ESPN+ |
2 | 8:30 pm | No. 2 South Dakota State vs. No. 7 Purdue Fort Wayne | 74–77 | |
Quarterfinals – Sunday, March 8 | ||||
3 | 6:00 pm | No. 4 Oral Roberts vs. No. 5 Omaha | 79–52 | MidcoSN/ESPN+ |
4 | 8:30 pm | No. 3 South Dakota vs. No. 6 North Dakota | 71-74 | |
Semifinals – Monday, March 9 | ||||
5 | 6:00 pm | No. 1 North Dakota State vs. No. 4 Oral Roberts | 75–69 | MidcoSN/ESPN+ |
6 | 8:30 pm | No. 7 Purdue Fort Wayne vs. No. 6 North Dakota | 56–73 | |
Final – Tuesday, March 10 | ||||
7 | 8:00 pm | No. 1 North Dakota State vs. No. 6 North Dakota | 89–53 | ESPN2 |
*Game times in CST for March 7 quarterfinals, and CDT for March 8 quarterfinals onward. Rankings denote tournament seed. Source:[2] TV availability source:[3] |
Bracket
Quarterfinals March 7 & 8 TV: MidcoSN | Semifinals March 9 TV: MidcoSN | Championship March 10 TV: ESPN2 | ||||||||||||
1 | North Dakota State | 71 | ||||||||||||
8 | Denver | 69 | ||||||||||||
1 | North Dakota State | 75 | ||||||||||||
4 | Oral Roberts | 69 | ||||||||||||
4 | Oral Roberts | 79 | ||||||||||||
5 | Omaha | 52 | ||||||||||||
1 | North Dakota State | 89 | ||||||||||||
6 | North Dakota | 53 | ||||||||||||
2 | South Dakota State | 74 | ||||||||||||
7 | Purdue Fort Wayne | 77 | ||||||||||||
7 | Purdue Fort Wayne | 56 | ||||||||||||
6 | North Dakota | 73 | ||||||||||||
3 | South Dakota | 71 | ||||||||||||
6 | North Dakota | 74 |