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during the

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. All tournament games were played at

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between March 4–10, 2025. The winner,

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, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA tournament.

Seeds

All 14 conference teams qualified for the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a procedural tiebreaker system set to seed teams with identical conference records. The conference adopted a unique stepladder system giving the top two teams byes to the tournament semifinals and the No. 3 and No. 4 teams byes to the tournament quarterfinals. The conference changed the tournament format in an effort to reward teams that played well during the regular season. The top 10 teams received at least one bye.

Schedule

Bracket

Source:

Game summaries

:''All times are in CT ( UTC−6 from March 4 through 8 and UTC−5 on March 9 and 10)''

First round

Second round

Third round

Fourth round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Championship

Awards and honors

Tournament

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, Troy ;SBC All-Tournament Team :* Tayton Conerway, Troy :* Thomas Dowd, Troy :* Terrance Ford Jr., Arkansas State :* Izaiyah Nelson, Arkansas State :* Obinna Anochili-Killen, Marshall :*Sean Durugordon, Old Dominion

References

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