The 2016 Summit League men's basketball tournament was the post-season men's basketball tournament for the Summit League. The tournament was held from March 5–8, 2016 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 2016 NCAA tournament. This was South Dakota State's third championship in five 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 #1Tiebreaker #21IPFW12–41–1 vs. South Dakota State2–0 vs. Omaha2South Dakota State12–41–1 vs. IPFW1–1 vs. Omaha3Omaha10–64IUPUI9–75North Dakota State8–86Denver7–97Oral Roberts6–108South Dakota5–11
Schedule SessionGameTime*Matchup#Television Quarterfinals – Saturday March 5, 2016116:00 pm#1 IPFW 86 vs #8 South Dakota 70Midco Sport NetworkESPN328:30 pm#2 South Dakota State 73 vs #7 Oral Roberts 70 Quarterfinals – Sunday March 6, 2016236:00 pm#4 IUPUI 45 vs #5 North Dakota State 60Midco Sport NetworkESPN348:30 pm#3 Omaha 70 vs #6 Denver 78 Semifinals – Monday March 7, 2016376:00 pm#1 IPFW 68 vs #5 North Dakota State 69Midco Sport NetworkESPN388:30 pm#2 South Dakota State 54 vs #6 Denver 53 Final – Tuesday March 8, 2016498:00 pm#5 North Dakota State 59 vs. #2 South Dakota State 67ESPN2 *Game times in CT. #-Rankings denote tournament seed
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