2016 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament


The 2016 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 7–12 at the Reno Events Center in Reno, Nevada. This was the first Big Sky tournament at a neutral site and the first to include all twelve conference members. The top two seeds met in the final; regular season champion Weber State defeated Montana and advanced to the NCAA tournament.

Seeds

All 12 Big Sky schools participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference season record, with the top four teams receiving a first round bye. A tiebreaker system was used to seed teams with identical conference records.
SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker
1Weber State15–3
2Montana14–4
3Idaho12–6
4Idaho State11–7
5North Dakota10–81–1 vs. Weber State
6Eastern Washington10–80–1 vs. Weber State
7Montana State9–9
8Portland State8–10
9Northern Colorado7–11
10Sacramento State6–12
11Northern Arizona3–151–1 vs. Idaho State
12Southern Utah3–150–2 vs. Idaho State

Schedule

Bracket

* – denotes overtime period

NCAA tournament

The Wildcats received the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament; no other Big Sky members were invited to the tournament or Weber State was seeded fifteenth in the East regional and lost to Xavier in the first round It was the tenth consecutive year that the Big Sky representative lost in the first round.