The 12-team NSIC Men’s & Women's Basketball Tournament Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Championships are set to take place Sat.-Tues., February 28 to March 3 at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. First round games will be played Wednesday, Feb. 25 on campus (top four seeds each receive first round byes). 

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Brackets and Seeding Policy

1. The NSIC Basketball Tournament is a twelve-team tournament and will be seeded using overall conference win percentage. 

The tie-breaking criteria for seeding into the NSIC Post Season Tournament will be as follows. 
- Head-to-head, if two games are played.
- Point rating system – based on conference games only.
- Head to head if one game is played. 
- Head-to-head competition of descending teams (win/loss record against teams who finished highest in standings).  
- Higher point differential in conference games only.
- Coin flip.