2012 Summit League men's basketball tournament

The 2012 Summit League men's basketball tournament was the 2012 post-season tournament for The Summit League, an NCAA Division I athletic conference. The tournament took place March 3–6, 2012, at the Sioux Falls Arena in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. South Dakota State won and received an automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA tournament.

2012 Summit League men's basketball tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season2011–12
Teams8
SiteSioux Falls Arena
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
ChampionsSouth Dakota State (1st title)
Winning coachScott Nagy (1st title)
MVPNate Wolters (South Dakota State)
TelevisionESPN2, FCS,
Midco Sport Network
2011–12 Summit League men's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Oral Roberts17–1 .94427–7  .794
South Dakota State†15–3 .83327–8  .771
Oakland11–7 .61120–16  .556
Western Illinois9–9 .50018–15  .545
North Dakota State9–9 .50017–14  .548
Southern Utah8–10 .44414–17  .452
IUPUI7–11 .38914–18  .438
* South Dakota5–13 .27810–18  .357
IPFW5–13 .27811–19  .367
UMKC4–14 .22210–21  .323
† 2012 Summit League tournament winner
Rankings from AP Poll
* Ineligible for conference tournament

This was the final Summit League tournament for Southern Utah, which joined the Big Sky Conference for the 2012–13 basketball season. Meanwhile, Oral Roberts joined the Southland Conference in 2012–13 but returned to the Summit in 2014–15.

Format

Out of the league's 10 teams, the top eight in the standings qualified for the conference tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record, with the following tiebreakers used if necessary:[1]

  1. Head-to-head competition
  2. Comparison of each tied team's record against the team occupying the highest position in the standings continuing down through the standings until a team gains an advantage.
  3. When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team's record against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to that group's own tie-breaking procedure) rather than the performance against individual tied teams.
  4. If a tie still cannot be broken after applying criteria (1), (2) and (3), it will be broken by comparing each tied team's RPI (based upon the RPIRankings.com Report issued on the morning following the last regular season league game).

The following criteria were applied to break ties between more than two teams:

  1. Head-to-head
  2. Each tied team's record shall be compared to the team or group (if two or more are tied) occupying the highest position in the standings continuing down through the standings until a team gains an advantage.

Bracket
Quarterfinals
March 3–4
Midco Sport Network/FCS 		Semifinals
March 5
Midco Sport Network/FCS 		Championship Game
March 6
ESPN2
         
1 Oral Roberts 71
8 IPFW 67
1 Oral Roberts 53
4 Western Illinois 54
4 Western Illinois 58
5 North Dakota State 53
2 South Dakota State 52OT
4 Western Illinois 50
2 South Dakota State 77
7 IUPUI 56
2 South Dakota State 63
6 Southern Utah 47
3 Oakland 82
6 Southern Utah 84

References
  1. "2012 SUMMIT LEAGUE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS" (PDF). thesummitleague.org. Archived from the original on March 18, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2012.
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