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
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:
Head-to-head record.
Record against the top-seeded team not involved in the tie, going down through the standings until the tie is broken.
*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
All-Tournament Team
The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team:[4]
