2021 Summit League men's basketball tournament

The 2021 Summit League men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Summit League for the 2020–21 season. All tournament games were played at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from March 6–9, 2021.^[1]

2021 Summit League men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2020–21
Teams	8
Site	Sanford Pentagon Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Champions	Oral Roberts (4th title)
Winning coach	Paul Mills (1st title)
MVP	Max Abmas (Oral Roberts)
Television	MidcoSN/MidcoSN2/ESPN+/ESPN2
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2020–21 Summit League men's basketball standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
South Dakota State	9	–	3		.750			16	–	7		.696
South Dakota	11	–	4		.733			14	–	11		.560
North Dakota State	11	–	5		.688			15	–	12		.556
Oral Roberts †	10	–	5		.667			18	–	11		.621
North Dakota	8	–	8		.500			9	–	17		.346
Kansas City	7	–	7		.500			11	–	13		.458
Western Illinois	5	–	9		.357			7	–	15		.318
Omaha	3	–	11		.214			5	–	20		.200
Denver	1	–	13		.071			2	–	19		.095
† 2021 Summit League Tournament winner

Fourth-seeded Oral Roberts defeated third-seeded North Dakota State, 75-72, to claim their fourth Summit League title and earn the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Seeds

The top eight teams by conference record in the Summit League competed in the conference tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The tiebreakers operate in the following order:

1. Head-to-head record.
2. Record against the top-seeded team not involved in the tie, going down through the standings until the tie is broken.

Seed	School	Conf. record	Tiebreaker(s)
1	South Dakota State	9–3
2	South Dakota	11–4
3	North Dakota State	11–5
4	Oral Roberts	10–5
5	North Dakota	8–8	2–0 vs. South Dakota
6	Kansas City	7–7	0–2 vs. South Dakota
7	Western Illinois	5–9
8	Omaha	3–11

Schedule and results

Game	Time [2]	Matchup	Score	Television
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 6
1	5:45 pm	No. 1 South Dakota State vs. No. 8 Omaha	84–71	MidcoSN/ESPN+
2	8:45 pm	No. 2 South Dakota vs. No. 7 Western Illinois	86–69
Quarterfinals – Sunday, March 7
3	5:45 pm	No. 4 Oral Roberts vs. No. 5 North Dakota	76–65	MidcoSN/ESPN+
4	8:45 pm	No. 3 North Dakota State vs. No. 6 Kansas City	69–65
Semifinals – Monday, March 8
5	5:45 pm	No. 1 South Dakota State vs. No. 4 Oral Roberts	88–90	MidcoSN/ESPN+
6	8:45 pm	No. 2 South Dakota vs. No. 3 North Dakota State	75–79
Final – Tuesday, March 9
7	8:00 pm	No. 4 Oral Roberts vs. No. 3 North Dakota State	75–72	ESPN2
*Game times in CST. Rankings denote tournament seed.

Bracket

	Quarterfinals March 6 & 7 TV: MidcoSN					Semifinals March 8 TV: MidcoSN					Championship March 9 TV: ESPN2
	1	South Dakota State	84
	8	Omaha	71
						1	South Dakota State	88
						4	Oral Roberts	90
	4	Oral Roberts	76
	5	North Dakota	65
											4	Oral Roberts	75
											3	North Dakota State	72
	2	South Dakota	86
	7	Western Illinois	69
						2	South Dakota	75
						3	North Dakota State	79
	3	North Dakota State	69
	6	Kansas City	65

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team:^[3]

Player	School
Max Abmas (MVP)	Oral Roberts
Kevin Obanor	Oral Roberts
Tyree Eady	North Dakota State
Rocky Kreuser	North Dakota State
Stanley Umude	South Dakoka

References

1. "2021 Men's Basketball Championship - The Summit League". thesummitleague.org.
2. "2021 Men's Basketball Championship Bracket (PDF) - the Summit League" (PDF).
3. "Fourth-seeded Oral Roberts fends off second-half charge by NDSU to capture title". Retrieved March 8, 2022.