The 2017 Summit League men's basketball tournament was the post-season men's basketball tournament for the Summit League. The tournament was held from March 4–7, 2017 at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The winners of the tournament, South Dakota State, received an automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA tournament with a 79–77 win over Omaha in the finals. This was South Dakota State's fourth championship in six years.
Seeds The top 8 teams in the final standings qualified for the tournament.
Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker #11South Dakota12–42North Dakota State11–53Omaha9–74South Dakota State8–83–1 vs DEN/FW5Denver8–82–2 vs SDSU/FW6Fort Wayne8–81–3 vs DEN/SDSU7IUPUI7–98Western Illinois5–11
Schedule SessionGameTime*MatchupScoreTelevision Quarterfinals – Saturday March 4, 2017116:00 pmNo. 1 South Dakota vs. No. 8 Western Illinois 78–69Midco Sport NetworkESPN328:30 pmNo. 2 North Dakota State vs. No. 7 IUPUI 57–76 Quarterfinals – Sunday March 5, 2017236:00 pmNo. 4 South Dakota State vs. No. 5 Denver83–73Midco Sport NetworkESPN348:30 pmNo. 3 Omaha vs. No. 6 Fort Wayne 84–80 Semifinals – Monday March 6, 2017356:00 pmNo. 1 South Dakota vs No. 4 South Dakota State71–74Midco Sport NetworkESPN368:30 pmNo. 7 IUPUI vs No. 3 Omaha 62–90 Final – Tuesday March 7, 2017478:00 pmNo. 4 South Dakota State vs No. 3 Omaha 79–77ESPN2 *Game times in CT. Rankings denote tournament seed
Bracket
* denotes overtime period
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