The 2013 Great West Conference men's basketball tournament was held March 14–16, 2013, in Chicago, Illinois at the Emil and Patricia Jones Convocation Center. Per NCAA regulations as a new Division I conference, the Great West champion would not have received an automatic bid into the NCAA tournament until 2020. The winner, however, did receive an automatic bid to the CollegeInsider.com Tournament. [1] This was the final GMC men's basketball tournament as the conference dissolved after the season due to its member schools joining other conferences.
| 2013 Great West Conference men's basketball tournament | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 2012–13 |
| Teams | 5 |
| Site | Emil and Patricia Jones Convocation Center Chicago, IL |
| Champions | Chicago State (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Tracy Dildy (1st title) |
| Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NJIT | 6 | – | 2 | .750 | 16 | – | 13 | .552 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas–Pan American | 5 | – | 3 | .625 | 16 | – | 16 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Houston Baptist | 3 | – | 5 | .375 | 14 | – | 17 | .452 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Utah Valley | 3 | – | 5 | .375 | 14 | – | 18 | .438 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chicago State † | 3 | – | 5 | .375 | 11 | – | 22 | .333 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 2013 Great West tournament winner As of March 20, 2013 Rankings from AP Poll | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Format
editWith North Dakota joining the Big Sky Conference for the 2012-13 season, the conference used the same 5-team format they used for 2012 as the outline.
Five teams participated in the 2013 Great West tournament. This was the last Great West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament as Houston Baptist left the conference after this season to join the Southland Conference and Utah Valley, UTPA and Chicago State left the conference after this season to join the Western Athletic Conference.
Bracket
editThe entire tournament was streamed online by CSU-TV.
| First round March 14, 2013 | Semifinals March 15, 2013 | Championship game March 16, 2013 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | NJIT | 61 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Houston Baptist | 62 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Houston Baptist | 76 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Utah Valley | 742OT | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Houston Baptist | 60 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Chicago State | 75 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Texas–Pan American | 55 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Chicago State | 63 | ||||||||||||
References
edit- ^ "Great West Conference". Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved October 18, 2012.