Big Sky Tournament 2023: Bracket, schedule, scores, groups, and extra

The Big Sky Tournament is about to get underway this weekend at Idaho Central Arena in Boise, Idaho. The winner will punch their computerized bid to the 2023 males’s NCAA event. The Big Sky is more likely to be a one-bid league this 12 months, which suggests your complete season comes all the way down to the convention event.

The event has a brand new format this season. With the convention now down to 10 groups, the highest six groups within the Big Sky convention have a bye into the quarterfinals, whereas the underside 4 groups play within the first spherical. If a type of groups desires to crash the large dance, they’ll need to win 4 recreation in 5 days to make the NCAA males’s event.

Eastern Washington is the highest seed within the Big Sky event, with a 22-9 report total, and a 16-2 report within the convention. The Eagles gained their first 16 video games in convention play — which set a brand new convention report — however they enter the event having misplaced their last two video games within the Big Sky, together with of their season finale in opposition to Montana State. Eastern Washington is led by guard Steele Venters, who was named the Big Sky MVP on Thursday. The 6’7 redshirt sophomore averages 15.1 factors per recreation, and was third within the convention with 70 3-pointers made. The Eagles are additionally stifling on protection. They held opponents to capturing simply 42% this season, and held opponents underneath 40% in 11 video games this 12 months.

Speaking of Montana State, they’re the #2 seed within the convention, and enter the event with an identical 22-9 total report. Only Montana State’s 15-3 convention report stored them from incomes the highest seed for the event. They’re led by guard RaeQuan Battle, who averages 17.1 factors per recreation this season, in addition to final 12 months’s Big Sky MVP Jubrile Belo. Belo 12.8 factors per recreation together with 6.1 rebounds per recreation.

2023 males’s Big Sky event bracket

2023 males’s Big Sky event schedule

March 4 First Round

Game 1: No. 9 Northern Arizona vs. No. 10 Idaho, 5:30 p.m., ESPN+

Game 2: No. 7 Portland State vs. No. 8 Northern Colorado, 8 p.m., ESPN+

March 5 Second Round

Game 3: No. 1 Eastern Washington vs. Winner Game 1, 5:30 p.m., ESPN+

Game 4: No. 2 Montana State vs. Winner Game 2, 8 p.m., ESPN+

March 6 Third Round

Game 5: No. 4 Montana vs. No. 5 Idaho State, 5:30 p.m., ESPN+

Game 6: No. 3 Weber State vs. No. 6 Sacramento State 8 p.m., ESPN+

March 7 Semifinals

Game 7: Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 5, 6:30 p.m., ESPNU

Game 8: Winner Game 4 vs. Winner Game 6, 9 p.m., ESPN2

March 8 Championship

Game 9: Winner Game 7 vs. Winner Game 8, 9:30 p.m., ESPN2