| Mode: | Basketball |
| Year: | 2020–21 |
| Prev Year: | 2019–20 |
| Next Year: | 2021–22 |
| Team: | Northern State Wolves |
| Conference: | Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference |
| Short Conf: | NSIC |
| Record: | 19–2 |
| Conf Record: | 13–1 |
| Hc Year: | 2nd |
| Asst Coach1: | Josh Vaughan |
| Asst Coach2: | Taylor Tucker |
| Asst Coach3: | Jacob Kornmann |
| Champion: | NSIC North Division and tournament champions |
The 2020–21 Northern State Wolves men's basketball team represented Northern State University in the 2020–21 NCAA Division II men's basketball season. The Wolves were led by second-year head coach Saul Phillips and played their home games at Wachs Arena in Aberdeen, South Dakota.[1] They competed as members of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, their season was greatly shortened.
Following the departure of Paul Sather to North Dakota,[2] Saul Phillips was hired as the head coach of the Wolves.[3] During his first year, the Wolves went 26–6 (18–4 NSIC) and won both the NSIC regular-season championship and the NSIC tournament championship, the latter of which gave them the #4 seed in the 2020 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament, which was eventually cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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