2018 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament


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.
SeedSchoolRecordTiebreaker 1Tiebreaker 2
1Montana16–2
2Idaho14–4
3Eastern Washington13–51–0 vs Weber State
4Weber State13–50–1 vs Eastern Washington
5Northern Colorado11–7
6Portland State9–92–0 vs Idaho State
7Idaho State9–90–2 vs Portland State
8North Dakota6–121–1 vs Montana State1–3 vs Eastern Washington/Weber State
9Montana State6–121–1 vs North Dakota0–2 vs Eastern Washington/Weber State
10Southern Utah5–13
11Sacramento State4–14
12Northern Arizona2–16

Schedule

Bracket

* 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.