The 2021 Southland Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the 2020âÂÂ21 season in the Southland Conference. The tournament took place from March 9âÂÂ13, 2021. The tournament winner received an automatic invitation to the 2021 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tieâÂÂbreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Only the top 10 teams in the conference qualified for the tournament. The top two seeds received triple byes into the semifinals in the merit-based format. The No. 3 and No. 4 seeds received double byes to the quarterfinals. Stephen F. Austin is serving a postseason ban and did not compete.
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