2018 Big Sky Conference women's basketball tournament explained

Year:	2018
Conference:	Big Sky Conference
Division:	I
Gender:	Women's
Teams:	12
Arena:	Reno Events Center
City:	Reno, NV
Champions:	Northern Colorado
Titlecount:	1st
Coach:	Kamie Ethridge
Coachcount:	1st
Mvp:	Savannah Smith
Mvpteam:	Northern Colorado
Television:	Pluto TV, ELEVEN

The 2018 Big Sky Conference women's basketball tournament was a tournament that held from March 5–10, 2018 at the Reno Events Center. Northern Colorado won their first Big Sky tournament for the first school history and earned an automatic trip to the 2018 NCAA tournament.^[1]

Seeds

Big Sky Tiebreaker procedures are as follows:

1. Head-to-head
2. Performance against conference teams in descending order to finish
3. Higher RPI
4. Coin Flip

Seed	School	Conference	Overall*	Tiebreaker
1	Northern Colorado	15–3	23–6
2	Idaho	13–5	17–12
3	Eastern Washington	12–6	17–13	1–0 vs. WEB
4	Weber State	12–6	20–9	0–1 vs. EWU
5	Idaho State	11–7	19–10	2–0 vs. PSU
6	Portland State	11–7	17–12	0–2 vs. ISU
7	Montana State	9–9	15–14	1–1 vs. MONT, 1–0 vs. ISU
8	Montana	9–9	13–16	1–1 vs. MSU, 0–1 vs. ISU
9	Sacramento State	5–13	7–22	1–0 vs. UND
10	North Dakota	5–13	12–17	0–1 vs. SAC
11	Northern Arizona	4–14	7–22
12	Southern Utah	2–16	3–26

• Overall record at end of regular season.

Schedule

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup^#	Television	Attendance
First Round – Monday, March 5
1	1	12:05 PM	8 Sacramento State vs. #9 Montana	Pluto TV 231	512
	2	2:35 PM	5 Idaho State vs. #12 Southern Utah
2	3	5:35 PM	7 Montana State vs. #10 North Dakota
	4	8:05 PM	6 Portland State vs. #11 Northern Arizona
Quarterfinals – Wednesday, March 7
3	5	12:05 PM	1 Northern Colorado vs. #9 Montana	Pluto TV 231	511
	6	2:35 PM	4 Weber State vs. #5 Idaho State
4	7	5:35 PM	2 Idaho vs. #7 Montana State		989
	8	8:05 PM	3 Eastern Washington vs. #6 Portland State
Semifinals – Friday, March 9
5	9	12:05 PM	1 Northern Colorado vs. #5 Idaho State	ELEVEN	1,002
	10	2:35 PM	2 Idaho vs. #6 Portland State
Championship Game – Saturday, March 10
6	11	12:05 PM	1 Northern Colorado vs. #2 Idaho	ELEVEN	993
Game Times in PT.

Bracket

^[2]

See also

• 2018 Big Sky Conference men's basketball tournament

Notes and References

1. Web site: Big Sky Conference. bigskyconf.com. en. 2018-02-25.
2. Web site: The 2018 Big Sky Basketball Championships Schedule. SIDEARM Sports. 27 November 2015.