2011 Summit League men's basketball tournament explained

Year:2011
Conference:Summit League
Division:I
Gender:Men's
Teams:8
Arena:Sioux Falls Arena
City:Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Champions:Oakland
Titlecount:3rd
Coach:Greg Kampe
Coachcount:3rd
Mvp:Keith Benson
Mvpteam:Oakland
Topscorer:Reggie Hamilton
Topscorerteam:Oakland
Points:69
Television:ESPN2, Midco Sports Net

The 2011 Summit League men's basketball tournament was the 2011 post-season tournament for Summit League, an NCAA Division I athletic conference. It was won by regular season champion Oakland University. It took place March 5–8, 2011 at the Sioux Falls Arena in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.[1]

Format

Out of the league's 10 teams, the top eight received berths in the conference tournament. After the 18-game conference season, teams were seeded by conference record, with tiebreakers used if necessary in the following order:

  1. Head-to-head competition
  2. Winning percentage vs. ranked conference teams (starting with #1 and moving down until the tie is broken)
  3. Ratings Percentage Index
  4. Coin flip

Bracket

All Times Central

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Men's Basketball Championship - theSummitLeague.org Official Web Site of The Summit League . 2011-02-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100813151559/http://www.thesummitleague.org/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3900&ATCLID=3641226 . 2010-08-13 . dead .