Big Sky Men's Basketball Tournament
| Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament | |
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| Conference Basketball Championship | |
| Sport | Basketball |
| Conference | Big Sky Conference |
| Number of teams | 12 (since 2016) |
| Format | Single-elimination tournament |
| Current stadium | Reno Events Center |
| Current location | Reno, Nevada |
| Played | 1976–present |
| Last contest | 2017 |
| Current champion | North Dakota |
| Most championships | Weber State (10) |
| Official website | BigSkyConf.com Men's Basketball |
| Host stadiums | |
| Campus sites (1976–2015) Reno Events Center (2016–2018) CenturyLink Arena (2019–2021) |
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| Host locations | |
| Campus sites (1976–2015) Reno, Nevada (2016–2018) Boise, Idaho (2019–2021) |
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The Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament is the conference championship tournament in men's basketball for the Big Sky Conference. The event has been held annually since 1976, even though the Big Sky was itself established as a conference in 1964.
The winner of the tournament each year is guaranteed a spot in the NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament.
From 1964–1975, no tournament was played; the team with the best record at the end of the season advanced to the NCAA tournament. From 1976 to 1983, only the top four teams from the conference regular season standings qualified for the tournament. Before 2016, when the tournament moved to a predetermined neutral site, all games were played on the home court of the higher seed. If two or more teams tied for the regular-season title, all were declared co-champions, but hosting rights were determined by a tiebreaker procedure.
Since the 2016 tournament, all full conference members (currently 12) have participated (barring NCAA sanctions or self-imposed postseason bans, the latter of which kept Northern Colorado out of the 2017 tournament), and the tournament is held at a predetermined site, currently the Reno Events Center in Reno, Nevada.
On September 18, 2017, the Big Sky Conference announced that the men's and women's tournaments would move to CenturyLink Arena in Boise, Idaho starting in 2019 and going through 2021.
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