Sport Basketball Current stadium Bill Greehey Arena Current champion St. Mary's (TX) Number of teams 4 | Conference Heartland Conference Played 2003–present Current location San Antonio | |
Format Single-elimination tournament | ||
The Heartland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament is the annual men's conference basketball championship tournament for the Heartland Conference. The tournament has been held annually since 2003. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records.
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The winner, declared conference champion, receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship.
Tournament format
Since its establishment in 2003, the Heartland Conference tournament has typically featured a simple four-team single-elimination tournament featuring the top four teams from the conference regular season standings. An additional opening round game, featuring the fourth and fifth best teams, was played only in 2006 and 2012. In 2010, two opening round games were played, with the third-seed playing the sixth-seed and the fourth-seed playing the fifth-seed.
In most years, the tournament was held in a gymnasium on the campus of one of the Heartland Conference member schools. The only exceptions were the 2007 and 2008 tournaments, played in the home arena of North Texas from Division I.