2017 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament


The 2017 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the 42nd edition of the postseason tournament for the Big Sky Conference, held March 7–11 at the Reno Events Center in Reno, Nevada.
In the final, regular season champion North Dakota defeated third-seed Weber State in overtime to earn the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. It was North Dakota's first NCAA tournament as a Division I team, after multiple appearances in the Division II tourney.
On October 8, 2016, Northern Colorado self-imposed a post-season ban amid an ongoing NCAA investigation into program violations, and did not participate.

Seeds

Only 11 of the 12 teams in the conference participated in the tournament due to Northern Colorado's self-imposed ban. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. The top five teams received a first round bye.
SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker 1Tiebreaker 2
1North Dakota14–4
2Eastern Washington13–5
3Weber State12–60–2 vs UND1–1 vs EWU
4Idaho12–60–1 vs UND0–2 vs EWU
5Montana11–71–0 vs UND
6Montana State11–70–1 vs UND
7Sacramento State9–9
8Portland State7–11
9Northern Arizona6–12
10Idaho State3–151–0 vs SUU
11Southern Utah3-150–1 vs ISU

Schedule

Bracket

* denotes overtime period

NCAA tournament

The Fighting Hawks received the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament; no other Big Sky members were invited to the tournament or North Dakota was seeded fifteenth in the West regional and lost 100–82 to Arizona in the first round It was the eleventh consecutive year that the Big Sky representative lost in the first round.