The 1983

Big Sky Conference men's basketball tournament The Big Sky Conference men's basketball tournament is the conference championship tournament in men's basketball for the Big Sky Conference. The event has been held annually since 1976, the conference's thirteenth year. The tournament winner ear ...

was held March 11–12 at

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Weber State defeated in the championship game to clinch their fourth Big Sky tournament title. and Wolf Pack were the regular season co-champions, while

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was attempting to win a third consecutive This was the twentieth season for the Big Sky and its first employing the three-point shot, for conference play only, with the line at . adopted the three-point shot for the 1986–87 season, at a considerably shorter

Format

First played in

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, the Big Sky tournament had the same format for its first eight editions. The regular season champion hosted and only the top four teams from the standings took part, with seeding based on regular season records. No teams made their inaugural tournament appearances this season. This year was the final Big Sky tournament with four teams; it expanded to include all eight teams in

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. The first tiebreaker in the standings were the head-to-head meetings; Nevada defeated Weber twice during the conference regular season, so the Wolf Pack won the regular season title. Montana defeated defending champion Idaho in both games to claim the third seed in the bracket.

Bracket

NCAA tournament

The Wildcats received an automatic bid to the 52-team NCAA tournament and were seeded ninth in the West region; they lost to

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by ten points in the first round in

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. No other Big Sky teams made the NCAA field; Idaho played in the 32-team NIT, the first-ever invite for the Big Sky, but lost in the first round to at

References

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