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2020 Summit League men's basketball tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season2019–20
Teams8
SiteDenny Sanford Premier Center
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
ChampionsNorth Dakota State University
TelevisionMidcoSN/MidcoSN2/ESPN+/ESPN2
← 2019
2021 →
2019–20 Summit League men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
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:

  1. Head-to-head record.
  2. 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)
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
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

References