The 2021 Big South men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament that ended the 2020âÂÂ21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season of the Big South Conference. It was held from February 27 through March 7, 2021 and all tournament games were played on home arenas of the higher-seeded school. The tournament winner received the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
All of the conference teams, except for Charleston Southern, competed in the tournament. Charleston Southern cancelled their season after going 3âÂÂ18 due to contact tracing, so they did not compete in the conference tournament. The top six teams received a first-round bye. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
The tiebreakers operate in the following order: