2011 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2011 Big Sky Conference Men's
Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2010–11
Teams 6
First round site campus sites
Semifinals site Butler–Hancock Sports Pavilion
Greeley, Colorado
Finals site Butler–Hancock Sports Pavilion
Greeley, Colorado
Champions Northern Colorado Bears (1st title)
Winning coach B.J. Hill (1st title)
Television ESPN2 (final)
Post-Big Sky Conference
tournament(s)
2011 NIT, 2011 NCAA,
2011 CBI, 2011 CIT
Big Sky Conference Men's
Basketball Tournaments
«2010  2012»
2010–11 Big Sky men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Northern Colorado 13   3   .813     21   11   .656
Montana 12   4   .750     21   11   .656
Weber State 11   5   .688     18   14   .563
Northern Arizona 9   7   .563     19   13   .594
Montana State 7   9   .438     13   18   .419
Eastern Washington 7   9   .438     10   20   .333
Portland State 5   11   .313     14   16   .467
Idaho State 4   12   .250     9   20   .310
Sacramento State 4   12   .250     7   21   .250
† 2011 Big Sky Tournament winner
As of March 19, 2011 • Rankings from AP Poll

The 2011 Big Sky Men's Basketball Tournament was played from March 5 to March 9, 2011. The First Round games of the tournament were held at the higher seed's home arena, and the semi-finals and championship were at the Butler–Hancock Sports Pavilion in Greeley, Colorado, home court of the regular season champion, Northern Colorado. The top 6 teams from regular season play qualified for the tournament, and the top 2 teams received a bye to the semi-finals. The field was re-seeded after the first round so the #1 seed played the lowest remaining seed. In 2011, Northern Colorado won the conference championship to advance to its first NCAA Division I tournament in school history.

Bracket

  First Round
March 5
Re-Seeded Semifinals
March 8
Championship
March 9
                           
        
  2  Montana 57  
    3  Weber State 40  
3  Weber State 79
  6  Eastern Washington 70  
    2  Montana 60
  1  Northern Colorado 65
  4  Northern Arizona 65  
5  Montana State 62  
4  Northern Arizona 70
    1  Northern Colorado 73