2027 NSIC Basketball Tournaments

The 12-team NSIC Men’s & Women's Basketball Tournament Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Championships are set to take place Sat.-Tues., February 27 to March 2 at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. First round games will be played Wednesday, Feb. 24 on campus (top four seeds each receive first round byes). 

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Brackets and Seeding Policy

The 2026-27 NSIC Basketball Tournament is a twelve-team tournament and will be seeded using overall conference win percentage. (22-games).

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. 
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