2013 Great West Conference men's basketball tournament
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The 2013 Great West Conference men's basketball tournament was held March 14–16, 2013, at the Emil and Patricia Jones Convocation Center in Chicago, Illinois. Per NCAA regulations as a new Division I conference, the Great West champion would not have received an automatic bid into the NCAA tournament until 2020; however, the winner was extended an automatic bid to the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament.[1]
| 2013 Great West Conference men's basketball tournament | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 2012–13 |
| Teams | 5 |
| Site | Emil and Patricia Jones Convocation Center Chicago, IL |
| Champions | Chicago State (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Tracy Dildy (1st title) |
| MVP | Nate Duhon (Chicago State) |
| Conf. | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NJIT | 6 | – | 2 | .750 | 16 | – | 13 | .552 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas–Pan American | 5 | – | 3 | .625 | 16 | – | 16 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chicago State † | 3 | – | 5 | .375 | 11 | – | 22 | .333 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Houston Baptist | 3 | – | 5 | .375 | 14 | – | 17 | .452 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Utah Valley | 3 | – | 5 | .375 | 14 | – | 18 | .438 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 2013 Great West tournament winner As of March 20, 2013 Rankings from AP Poll | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This edition was to be the last Great West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament as Houston Baptist would depart the conference after the season to join the Southland Conference and Chicago State, Texas–Pan American and Utah Valley would depart the conference after the season to join the Western Athletic Conference, leaving the New Jersey Institute of Technology as its sole remaining member.
Format
Chicago State re-established postseason eligibility (after failing for 2012) by meeting the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate requirements, but North Dakota had joined the Big Sky Conference for the 2012-13 season; as a result, the conference utilized the same five-team format they used for 2012 as the outline.
Bracket
The entire tournament was streamed online by CSU-TV.
| First round March 14, 2013 | Semifinal round March 15, 2013 | Championship round March 16, 2013 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | NJIT | 61 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Houston Baptist | 62 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Houston Baptist | 76 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Utah Valley | 74 2OT | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Houston Baptist | 60 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Chicago State | 75 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Texas–Pan American | 55 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Chicago State | 63 | ||||||||||||