2021 Summit League men's basketball tournament explained

Year:	2021
Conference:	Summit League
Division:	I
Gender:	Men's
Teams:	8
Arena:	Sanford Pentagon
City:	Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Champions:	Oral Roberts
Titlecount:	4th
Coach:	Paul Mills
Coachcount:	1st
Mvp:	Max Abmas
Mvpteam:	Oral Roberts
Television:	MidcoSN/MidcoSN2/ESPN+/ESPN2

The 2021 Summit League men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Summit League for the 2020–21 season. All tournament games were played at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from March 6–9, 2021.^[1]

Fourth-seeded Oral Roberts defeated third-seeded North Dakota State, 75-72, to claim their fourth Summit League title and earn the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Seeds

The top eight teams by conference record in the Summit League competed in the conference tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The tiebreakers operate in the following order:

1. Head-to-head record.
2. Record against the top-seeded team not involved in the tie, going down through the standings until the tie is broken.

Seed	School	Conf. record	Tiebreaker(s)
1	South Dakota State	9–3
2		11–4
3	North Dakota State	11–5
4	Oral Roberts	10–5
5	North Dakota	8–8	2–0 vs. South Dakota
6	Kansas City	7–7	0–2 vs. South Dakota
7	Western Illinois	5–9
8	Omaha	3–11

Schedule and results

Game	Time ^[2]	Matchup	Score	Television
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 6
1	5:45 pm	No. 1 South Dakota State vs. No. 8 Omaha	84–71	MidcoSN/ESPN+
2	8:45 pm	No. 2 South Dakota vs. No. 7 Western Illinois	86–69
Quarterfinals – Sunday, March 7
3	5:45 pm	No. 4 Oral Roberts vs. No. 5 North Dakota	76–65	MidcoSN/ESPN+
4	8:45 pm	No. 3 North Dakota State vs. No. 6 Kansas City	69–65
Semifinals – Monday, March 8
5	5:45 pm	No. 1 South Dakota State vs. No. 4 Oral Roberts	88–90	MidcoSN/ESPN+
6	8:45 pm	No. 2 South Dakota vs. No. 3 North Dakota State	75–79
Final – Tuesday, March 9
7	8:00 pm	No. 4 Oral Roberts vs. No. 3 North Dakota State	75–72	ESPN2
Game times in CST. Rankings denote tournament seed.

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team:^[3]

Player	School
Max Abmas (MVP)	Oral Roberts
Kevin Obanor	Oral Roberts
Tyree Eady	North Dakota State
Rocky Kreuser	North Dakota State
Stanley Umude	South Dakoka

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2021 Men's Basketball Championship - The Summit League. thesummitleague.org.
2. Web site: 2021 Men's Basketball Championship Bracket (PDF) - the Summit League .
3. Web site: Fourth-seeded Oral Roberts fends off second-half charge by NDSU to capture title. March 8, 2022.