2017 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament


The 2017 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, was the postseason men's basketball tournament that completed 2016–17 season in the Southland Conference. The tournament was held at the Merrell Center in Katy, Texas from March 8–11, 2017. The winner of the tournament, New Orleans, received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament with a 68–65 OT win over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
Two programs in their final year of the transition from NCAA Division II to Division I, Abilene Christian and Incarnate Word, were ineligible for the tournament.

Seeds

The top 8 teams in the conference qualified for the tournament. The top two seeds earned double byes into the semifinals in the merit-based format. The No. 3 and No. 4 seeds received single byes to the quarterfinals.
Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker 1Tiebreaker 2
1New Orleans13–5
2Texas A&M–CC12–62–0 vs. Incarnate Word
3Stephen F. Austin12–61–1 vs. Incarnate Word2–0 vs. Texas A&M-CC
4Houston Baptist12–61–1 vs. Incarnate Word1–1 vs. Texas A&M-CC
5Sam Houston State10–81–0 vs. New Orleans
6Lamar10–80–1 vs. New Orleans
79–9
8Central Arkansas7–114–3 vs. UIW/Nicholls State/Northwestern State/ACU1–1 vs. Northwestern State
N/ANicholls State7–114–3 vs. UIW/Central Arkansas/Northwestern State/ACU0–2 vs. Northwestern State
N/ANorthwestern State7–113–3 vs. UIW/Central Arkansas/Nicholls State/ACU

Schedule

Bracket

* – denotes overtime period

Game summaries

First round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Championship

Awards and honors

Source:
Tournament MVP:
All-Tournament Team:'''