2012 Summit League men's basketball tournament

American basketball tournament August 2023 2012 Summit League I Men's 150px Tournament logo 8 Sioux Falls Arena Sioux Falls, South Dakota South Dakota State 1st Scott Nagy 1st Nate Wolters South Dakota State ESPN2, FCS, Midco Sport Network 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. 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:2012 SUMMIT LEAGUE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS http://www.thesummitleague.org/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3900&ATCLID=205330334 thesummitleague.org January 10, 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120318215229/http://www.thesummitleague.org/fls/3900/sports/mbball/release.pdf?&SPSID=21767&SPID=1768&DB_OEM_ID=3900 2012-03-18 Head-to-head competition 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. 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. 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: Head-to-head 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 QuarterfinalsMarch 3–4Midco Sport Network/FCS SemifinalsMarch 5Midco Sport Network/FCS FinalMarch 6ESPN2 1 Oral Roberts 71 8 IPFW 67 4 Western Illinois 58 5 North Dakota State 53 2 South Dakota State 77 7 IUPUI 56 3 Oakland 82 6 Southern Utah 84 1 Oral Roberts 53 4 Western Illinois 54 2 South Dakota State 63 6 Southern Utah 47 4 Western Illinois 50 OT 2 South Dakota State 52 References Tournament Category:Summit League men's basketball tournament The Summit League men's basketball tournament Category:Basketball competitions in Sioux Falls, South Dakota Category:College basketball tournaments in South Dakota