Английская Википедия:2018 Big Sky Conference men's basketball tournament

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The 2018 Big Sky Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big Sky Conference. The tournament was held from March 6–10, 2018 at the Reno Events Center in Reno, Nevada. Regular-season champion Montana defeated Eastern Washington in the championship game to win the tournament and receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Seeds

Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. The top four teams received a first round bye.

Seed	School	Record	Tiebreaker 1	Tiebreaker 2
1	Montana	16–2
2	Idaho	14–4
3	Eastern Washington	13–5	1–0 vs Weber State
4	Weber State	13–5	0–1 vs Eastern Washington
5	Northern Colorado	11–7
6	Portland State	9–9	2–0 vs Idaho State
7	Idaho State	9–9	0–2 vs Portland State
8	North Dakota	6–12	1–1 vs Montana State	1–3 vs Eastern Washington/Weber State
9	Montana State	6–12	1–1 vs North Dakota	0–2 vs Eastern Washington/Weber State
10	Southern Utah	5–13
11	Sacramento State	4–14
12	Northern Arizona	2–16

Schedule

Session	Game	Time	Matchup	Score	Television	Attendance
First round – Tuesday, March 6
1	1	12:00 pm	No. 8 North Dakota vs. No. 9 Montana State	76–74	Pluto TV 231	986
	2	2:30 pm	No. 5 Northern Colorado vs. No. 12 Northern Arizona	82–59
2	3	5:30 pm	No. 7 Idaho State vs. No. 10 Southern Utah	68–76		977
	4	8:00 pm	No. 6 Portland State vs. No. 11 Sacramento State	71–67
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 8
3	5	12:00 pm	No. 1 Montana vs. No. 8 North Dakota	84–76	ELEVEN	1,110
	6	2:30 pm	No. 4 Weber State vs. No. 5 Northern Colorado	55–80	ELEVEN Prime
4	7	5:30 pm	No. 2 Idaho vs. No. 10 Southern Utah	78–92	ELEVEN	1,078
	8	8:00 pm	No. 3 Eastern Washington vs. No. 6 Portland State	78–72
Semifinals – Friday, March 9
5	9	5:30 pm	No. 1 Montana vs No. 5 Northern Colorado	91–89 OT	ELEVEN	1,236
	10	8:00 pm	No. 3 Eastern Washington vs No. 10 Southern Utah	82–70
Championship game – Saturday, March 10
6	11	5:00 pm	No. 1 Montana vs No. 3 Eastern Washington	82–65	ESPNU	1,378
Game times in PT. Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

Шаблон:4RoundBracket-Byes * denotes overtime period

NCAA tournament

The Grizzlies received the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament; no other Big Sky members were invited to the tournament or the NIT. Montana was seeded 14th in the West regional and lost by fourteen to Michigan in the first round in Wichita. The last Big Sky team to advance in the NCAA tourney was Montana, a dozen years earlier in 2006.