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2020 Summit League men's basketball tournament

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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 (5th title)
Winning coachDavid Richman (3rd title)
MVPVinnie Shahid (North Dakota State)
TelevisionMidcoSN/MidcoSN2/ESPN+/ESPN2
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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 was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Summit League for the 2019–20 season. All tournament games were played at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from March 7–10, 2020.[1] First-seeded North Dakota State defeated North Dakota, 89–53, to set the Summit League Tournament record for the largest margin victory in the title game. They earned the Summit League's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, but it was canceled days after NDSU won due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Seeds

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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

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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

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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

All-Tournament Team

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The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team:[4]

Player School
Vinnie Shahid (MVP) North Dakota State
Sam Griesel North Dakota State
Tyson Ward North Dakota State
Marlon Stewart North Dakota
Kevin Obanor Oral Roberts

References

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  1. ^ "The Summit League". Archived from the original on February 3, 2020. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  2. ^ "The Summit League" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 9, 2020. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  3. ^ "Another bevy of Summit League basketball games set to air on Midco Sports Network - the Summit League". Archived from the original on February 17, 2020. Retrieved February 10, 2020.
  4. ^ "Top-seeded NDSU punches ticket to Big Dance". The Summit League. Retrieved March 9, 2022.