2014 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament

2014 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament

Tournament logo
Classification Division I
Season 2013–14
Teams 7
Site Sioux Falls Arena
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Champions North Dakota State (2nd title)
Winning coach Saul Phillips (2nd title)
MVP Taylor Braun (North Dakota State)
Television FCS Atlantic,
Midco Sport Network,
ESPN2
Summit League Men's Basketball Tournaments
«2013  2015»
2013–14 The Summit League men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
North Dakota State † 12 – 2   .857     26 – 7   .788
IPFW 10 – 4   .714     25 – 11   .694
South Dakota State 10 – 4   .714     19 – 13   .594
Denver 8 – 6   .571     16 – 15   .516
South Dakota 6 – 8   .429     12 – 18   .400
Omaha* 5 – 9   .357     17 – 15   .531
Western Illinois 4 – 10   .286     10 – 20   .333
IUPUI 1 – 13   .071     6 – 26   .188
† 2014 Summit League Tournament winner
Rankings from AP Poll
*ineligible for NCAA postseason Div I tournament due to Div. I transition

The 2014 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament was the post-season men's basketball tournament for the Summit League, and took place March 8-11, 2014 at the Sioux Falls Arena in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.[1][2] Teams were seeded by conference record, with tiebreakers used when necessary.[3] The champion received an automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Tournament.

Tiebreaking procedure

The following rules define the tiebreaking procedure for the Summit League tournament.[3] If there are multiple ties, the ties shall be broken in descending order. Once a tie is broken using the procedures below, it shall remain broken for purposes of all future comparisons. Tiebreaker procedures are used only to determine seeds for the league tournament.

Two-team tiebreaking criteria

The following criteria is applied to break ties between two teams:

  1. Results of head-to-head competition between the two tied teams.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. If a tie still cannot be broken after applying criteria (1), (2) and (3), it will be broken by comparing each tied team's Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) (based upon the RPIratings.com Report issued on the morning following the last regular season league game).

Multiple-team tiebreaking criteria

The following criteria is applied to break ties between more than two teams:

  1. Results of each tied team's collective record against the other teams tied for the same position.
  2. If multiple ties still remain, then 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.
  3. If the above results in two teams remaining, the two-team tiebreaker is used.
  4. If a tie involving three or more teams still cannot be broken after applying criteria (1) and (2), it will be broken by comparing each tied team's RPI (based upon the RPIratings.com Report issued on the morning following the last regular season league game).

Bracket

[4]

  Quarterfinals
March 8–9
FCS Atlantic/
Midco Sport Network		 Semifinals
March 10
FCS Atlantic/
Midco Sport Network		 Championship
March 11
ESPN2
 
                           
        
  1  North Dakota State 83  
    4  Denver 48  
4  Denver 71
  5  South Dakota 55  
    1  North Dakota State 60
  2  IPFW 57
  2  IPFW 85  
7  IUPUI 47  
2  IPFW 64
    3  South Dakota State 60  
3  South Dakota State 71
  6  Western Illinois 50  

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Summit League Finalizes Fox College Sports Schedule". prestosports. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
  2. ↑ "2014 Summit League Men's Basketball Championship" (PDF). The Summit League. Retrieved February 25, 2013.
  3. 1 2 "2013 Summit League Basketball Championships". The Summit League. Retrieved February 25, 2012.
  4. ↑ "The 2014 Summit League Men's Basketball Championship". The Summit League. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
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