The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament is the annual conference
basketball
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championship tournament for the
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference
The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC), commonly known as the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) from approximately 1910 through the late 1960s, is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (N ...
. The tournament has been held every year since 1993, when the RMAC became an
NCAA
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Division II conference. It is a
single-elimination tournament
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and seeding is based on regular season records.
The winner, declared conference champion, receives the conference's automatic bid to the
NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship
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.
Tournament format
Since its foundation in 1993, the tournament has featured only the top 8 teams from the conference playing in a single-elimination style tournament. The first rounds are always played at the gym of the higher-seeded team while the semifinal and championship rounds are played at a pre-determined site, usually on the campus of one of the RMAC members.
Results
Championship appearances by school
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Chadron State
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,
South Dakota Mines, and
Westminster
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have yet to advance to the RMAC tournament final.
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Utah Tech (Dixie State) and
Western New Mexico never qualified for the RMAC tournament final before departing the conference.
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‡Former member of the RMAC.
See also
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RMAC women's basketball tournament
References
{{NCAA men's college basketball tournament navbox
NCAA Division II men's basketball conference tournaments
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Recurring sporting events established in 1993