Английская Википедия:2017 Southland Conference men's basketball tournament

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The 2017 Southland Conference men's basketball tournament, was the postseason men's basketball tournament that completed 2016–17 season in the Southland Conference. The tournament was held at the Merrell Center in Katy, Texas from March 8–11, 2017. The winner of the tournament, New Orleans, received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament with a 68–65 OT win over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.

Two programs in their final year of the transition from NCAA Division II to Division I, Abilene Christian and Incarnate Word, were ineligible for the tournament.

Seeds

The top 8 teams in the conference qualified for the tournament. The top two seeds earned double byes into the semifinals in the merit-based format. The No. 3 and No. 4 seeds received single byes to the quarterfinals.

Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

Seed	School	Conference	Tiebreaker 1	Tiebreaker 2
1	New Orleans	13–5
2	Texas A&M–CC	12–6	2–0 vs. Incarnate Word
3	Stephen F. Austin	12–6	1–1 vs. Incarnate Word	2–0 vs. Texas A&M-CC
4	Houston Baptist	12–6	1–1 vs. Incarnate Word	1–1 vs. Texas A&M-CC
5	Sam Houston State	10–8	1–0 vs. New Orleans
6	Lamar	10–8	0–1 vs. New Orleans
7	Шаблон:Nowrap	9–9
8	Central Arkansas	7–11	4–3 vs. UIW/Nicholls State/Northwestern State/ACU	1–1 vs. Northwestern State
N/A	Nicholls State	7–11	4–3 vs. UIW/Central Arkansas/Northwestern State/ACU	0–2 vs. Northwestern State
N/A	Northwestern State	7–11	3–3 vs. UIW/Central Arkansas/Nicholls State/ACU

Schedule

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup#	Score	Television
First round – Wednesday, March 8, 2017
1	1	5:00 pm	No. 5 Sam Houston State vs. No. 8 Central Arkansas	77–69	ESPN3
	2	7:30 pm	No. 6 Lamar vs. No. 7 Southeastern Louisiana	77–65
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 9, 2017
2	3	5:00 pm	No. 4 Houston Baptist vs. No. 5 Sam Houston State	59–63	ESPN3
	4	7:30 pm	No. 3 Stephen F. Austin vs. No. 6 Lamar	75–59
Semifinals – Friday, March 10, 2017
3	5	5:00 pm	No. 1 New Orleans vs. No. 5 Sam Houston State	75–63	ESPN3
	6	7:30 pm	No. 2 Texas A&M Corpus Christi vs. No. 3 Stephen F. Austin	77–69
Championship – Saturday, March 11, 2017
4	7	8:30 pm	No. 1 New Orleans vs. No. 2 Texas A&M Corpus Christi	68–65 OT	ESPN2
*Game times in CST. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

* – denotes overtime period

Awards and honors

Source:
Tournament MVP:

All-Tournament Team:

See also

2017 Southland Conference women's basketball tournament