Sport College basketball Current champion Stephen F. Austin Conference Southland Conference Number of teams 8 | Played 1981–present Current location Katy Current stadium Merrell Center TV partner ESPN | |
Format Single-elimination tournament Most championships Northeast Louisiana (6) Official website Southland.org Men's Basketball Last contest 2016 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament | ||
The Southland Conference's Men's Basketball Tournament began in 1981, with the winner of the tournament receiving the conference's automatic bid into the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.
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From 1981 to 2001, the first round of the tournament took place at the higher seed, with the remaining rounds at a set location. In 2002, the Southland changed the format to play games at the campus of sites of each higher seed, during every round of the tournament. This was changed again in 2007, the first year that the conference selected a neutral site for all rounds of the tournament.
Tournament results
Note: Northeast Louisiana and Southwestern Louisiana became Louisiana–Monroe and Louisiana–Lafayette, respectively, in 1999. Southwest Texas State became Texas State in 2003.
Records since the 2007 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Italicized indicates former member
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