College basketball tournament
The 2018 Summit League men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Summit League for the 2017–18 season . All tournament games were played at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota , from March 3–6, 2018. Regular season champion South Dakota State defeated South Dakota in the championship game to win the tournament and receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament .
Seeds
All eight teams in the Summit League were eligible to compete in the conference tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
Schedule and results
Game
Time[ 1]
Matchup
Score
Television
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 3
1
6:00 pm
No. 1 South Dakota State vs. No. 8 Western Illinois
66–60
Midco Sport Network ESPN3
2
8:30 pm
No. 2 South Dakota vs. No. 7 Omaha
87–73
Quarterfinals – Sunday, March 4
3
6:00 pm
No. 4 Fort Wayne vs. No. 5 North Dakota State
82–86
Midco Sport Network
4
8:30 pm
No. 3 Denver vs. No 6 Oral Roberts
90–882OT
Semifinals – Monday, March 5
5
6:00 pm
No. 1 South Dakota State vs. No. 5 North Dakota State
78–57
Midco Sport Network
6
8:30 pm
No. 2 South Dakota vs. No. 3 Denver
76–58
Final – Tuesday, March 6
7
8:00 pm
No. 1 South Dakota State vs. No. 2 South Dakota
97–87
ESPN2
*Game times in CST . Rankings denote tournament seed
Bracket
Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship 1
South Dakota State
66
8
Western Illinois
60
1
South Dakota State
78
5
North Dakota State
57
4
Fort Wayne
82
5
North Dakota State
86
1
South Dakota State
97
2
South Dakota
87
2
South Dakota
87
7
Omaha
73
2
South Dakota
76
3
Denver
58
3
Denver
90**
6
Oral Roberts
88
* indicates overtime period.
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