For Immediate Release
Saturday, February 18, 2017
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BURNSVILLE, Minn. - The 2017 NSIC / Sanford Health Men's Basketball Tournament bracket has been released as the 22-game regular season ended Saturday night.  MSU Moorhead (24-4, 19-3 NSIC) won the NSIC Overall and North Division Championships and will be the top seed in the north division.  Southwest Minnesota State (22-5, 17-5 NSIC) earned the No. 1 seed in the south division. 
 
Upper Iowa earned the second seed in the south division after tying with Augustana at 16-6.  The two teams split during the regular season and both had 11-3 divisional records, but UIU’s sweep of SMSU gave them the tiebreaker.  In the north division, Minot State earned the fourth seed over U-Mary as the Beavers had a better divisional record than the Marauders. 
 
The top four seeds in each division will host the 5-8 seeds from the opposite division on Wednesday, February 22.  The quarterfinals, semifinals and championship will take place on February 26-28 at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D.

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Wed., Feb. 22 - First Round			Time
(S5) Sioux Falls	at	(N4) Minot State	7 pm
(N8) Minnesota Duluth	at	(S1) SMSU	7 pm
(N7) Minnesota Crookston	at	(S2) Upper Iowa	7 pm
(N5) U-Mary	at	(S4) Minnesota State	7 pm
(S6) Wayne State	at	(N3) St. Cloud State	7 pm
(N6) Bemidji state	at	(S3) Augustana	8 pm
(S8) Concordia-St. Paul	at	(N1) MSU Moorhead	8 pm
(S7) Winona State	at	(N2) Northern State	8 pm