2009 Summit League men's basketball tournament

August 2023 2009 Summit League I Men's 150px 2009 tournament logo 8 Sioux Falls Arena Sioux Falls, South Dakota North Dakota State 1st Saul Phillips 1st Ben Woodside North Dakota St Ben Woodside North Dakota St 61 ESPN2 The 2009 Summit League men's basketball tournament was the 2009 post-season tournament for Summit League, an NCAA Division I athletic conference. It took place March 7–10, 2009 at Sioux Falls Arena in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.http://www.thesummitleague.org/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3900&ATCLID=3640438 2009 Summit League Basketball Championships - theSummitLeague.org Official Web Site of The Summit League 2009-03-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20090228160145/http://www.thesummitleague.org/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3900&ATCLID=3640438 2009-02-28 dead Top-seeded North Dakota State defeated #3 seed Oakland 66–64 to earn an automatic berth into the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. The winning points came on a shot by Ben Woodside, who was also named the tournament MVP,http://www.thesummitleague.org/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3900&ATCLID=3690215 Woodside's Basket Lifts North Dakota State Past Oakland for The Summit League Title The Summit League 2009-03-10 2009-03-11 with 3.3 seconds left.https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=290692449 https://web.archive.org/web/20180616103439/http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=290692449 dead June 16, 2018 Woodside hits jumper with 3 seconds left to push N. Dakota St. to Summit title Associated Press Associated Press ESPN.com 2009-03-10 2009-03-11 North Dakota State trailed for most of the final; the Bison were behind by as much as 14 points in the first half and 12 with less than 10 minutes left, but they went on an 18–4 run to end the game, capped by Woodside's shot. A long three-pointer by Oakland's Johnathon Jones at the buzzer bounced off the rim, preserving the Bison victory. The Bison, who were in their first season of eligibility for Division I postseason play, became the first men's team in Division I or its predecessors in more than 35 years to qualify for the NCAA Tournament in its first year of eligibility. The previous team to accomplish this feat was Southwestern Louisiana, now Louisiana-Lafayette, in 1972. The Bison were the second Summit League team that day to accomplish this feat—South Dakota State, also in its first year of Division I postseason eligibility, won the Summit women's tournament final, held at the same site, to book a place in the NCAA women's tournament. https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=290692571 South Dakota State wins 17th straight to earn NCAA bid Associated Press ESPN.com 2009-03-10 2009-03-11July 2024 medicmedic In another coincidence, the Jackrabbits defeated Oakland in their final. Format Unlike most Division I basketball conferences, the Summit League does not send all of its teams into its conference tournament. Out of the league's 10 teams, the top eight receive berths in the conference tournament. After the 18-game conference season, teams are seeded by conference record, with tiebreakers used if necessary in the following order: Head-to-head competition Winning percentage vs. ranked conference teams (starting with #1 and moving down until the tie is broken) Ratings Percentage Index Coin flip Bracket QuarterfinalsMarch 7–8 SemifinalsMarch 9 FinalMarch 10 1 North Dakota State 83 8 2008-09 Centenary College of Louisiana Centenary Gentlemen Centenary 77 4 IUPUI 48 5 2008-09 Southern Utah University Southern Utah Thunderbirds Southern Utah 53 2 2008-09 Oral Roberts University Oral Roberts Golden Eagles Oral Roberts 69 OT 7 2008-09 South Dakota State University South Dakota State Jackrabbits South Dakota State 72 3 Oakland 75 6 2008-09 Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne IPFW Mastodons IPFW 62 1 North Dakota State 79 5 Southern Utah 67 7 South Dakota State 56 3 Oakland 74 1 North Dakota State 66 3 Oakland 64 References Tournament Category:Summit League men's basketball tournament Basketball Category:Basketball competitions in Sioux Falls, South Dakota Category:College basketball tournaments in South Dakota