Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament | |
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Conference Basketball Championship | |
The Summit League Conference Tournament logo (2008–present)
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Sport | College basketball |
Conference | Summit League |
Number of teams | 8 |
Format | Single-elimination tournament |
Current stadium | Denny Sanford Premier Center |
Current location | Sioux Falls, South Dakota |
Played | 1984–present |
Last contest | 2016 |
Current champion | South Dakota State Jackrabbits |
Most championships | Valparaiso Crusaders (8) |
TV partner(s) | Midco Sports Net, ESPN3, ESPN2 |
Official website | TheSummitLeague.org Men's Basketball |
The Summit League men's basketball tournament is the post-season tournament for NCAA Division I conference Summit League. The winner of the tournament receives the Summit League's automatic bid into the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. The tournament was first played in 1984, when the league was known as the Association of Mid-Continent Universities (AMCU). The league was also known as the Mid-Continent Conference from 1989–2007, after which it was renamed to The Summit League.
Currently, all men's basketball teams in the Summit League receive a berth in the conference tournament (barring NCAA sanctions). After the 18-game conference season, teams are seeded by conference record with the following tie-breakers:
* No longer a conference member
† Oral Roberts left The Summit League for the Southland Conference after the 2011–12 season, but returned for the 2014–15 season.