2010 The Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament

2010 The Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2009–10
Teams 8
Site Sioux Falls Arena
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Champions Oakland (2nd title)
Winning coach Greg Kampe (2nd title)
MVP Derick Nelson (Oakland)
Top scorer Robert Glenn IUPUI
(66 points)
The Summit League Men's Basketball Tournaments
«2009  2011»
2009–10 The Summit League men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
†-Oakland 17 – 1   .944     26 – 9   .743
x-IUPUI 15 – 3   .833     25 – 11   .694
x-Oral Roberts 13 – 5   .722     20 – 13   .606
x-South Dakota St. 10 – 8   .556     14 – 16   .467
x-IPFW 9 – 9   .500     16 – 15   .516
x-North Dakota St. 8 – 10   .444     11 – 18   .379
x-Western Illinois 6 – 12   .333     13 – 17   .433
x-UMKC 6 – 12   .333     12 – 18   .400
Centenary * 3 – 15   .167     8 – 21   .276
Southern Utah 3 – 15   .167     7 – 22   .241
† Conference tournament winner
As of March 22, 2010; Rankings from AP Poll
* Ineligible for conference tournament
x-Clinched berth in conference tournament

The 2010 The Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament was the 2010 post-season tournament for The Summit League, an NCAA Division I athletic conference. It was won by conference regular season champion Oakland University. Oakland defeated #2 seed IUPUI in the finals 76–64 behind Derick Nelson's career high 38 points.

Nelson was named tournament MVP and was joined by teammates Keith Benson and Johnathon Jones on the All-Tournament Team. Robert Glenn, the leading scorer for the tournament and Alex Young, both of IUPUI rounded out the All-Tournament Team.[1]

The tournament took place March 6–9, 2010 at Sioux Falls Arena in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.[2]

Format

Out of the league's 10 teams, the top eight receive berths in the conference tournament. After the 18-game conference season, teams are seeded by conference record, with tiebreakers used if necessary in the following order:

  1. Head-to-head competition
  2. Winning percentage vs. ranked conference teams (starting with #1 and moving down until the tie is broken)
  3. Ratings Percentage Index
  4. Coin flip

Centenary is not eligible for the conference tournament due to APR sanctions imposed by the NCAA.

Bracket

Quarterfinals
March 6–7 		Semifinals
March 8 		Finals
March 9
         
1 Oakland 85
8 UMKC 70
1 Oakland 71
5 IPFW 58
4 South Dakota State 66
5 IPFW 71
1 Oakland 76
2 IUPUI 64
2 IUPUI 77
7 Western Illinois 68
2 IUPUI 69
3 Oral Roberts 65
3 Oral Roberts 65*
6 North Dakota State 64

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.thesummitleague.org//ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3900&ATCLID=204905251
  2. ↑ http://www.thesummitleague.org/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3900&ATCLID=3641226

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