The 2020 Southland Conference men's basketball tournament is the postseason men's basketball tournament for the 2019–20 season in the

Southland Conference The Southland Conference, abbreviated as SLC, is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the South Central United States (specifically Texas and Louisiana). It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it pa ...

. The tournament was scheduled from March 11–14, 2020. The first two games of the tournament were held at the

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on March 11, 2020. On March 12, the Southland Conference announced the remainder of the tournament would be canceled due to the

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. The tournament winner would have received an automatic invitation to the

2020 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament The 2020 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament was a planned single-elimination tournament of 68 teams to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college basketball national champion for the 2019– ...

, which was later cancelled for the same reason.

Seeds

Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tie–breaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Only the top eight teams in the conference qualified for the tournament. The top two seeds received double byes into the semifinals in the merit-based format. The No. 3 and No. 4 seeds received single byes to the quarterfinals.

Schedule

Tournament cancelled on March 12 Source

Bracket

Tournament cancelled on March 12.

Awards and honors

Tournament

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References

External links

2020 Southland Conference Basketball Tournament
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Southland Conference men's basketball tournament

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