The 2026 Southland Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the 2025âÂÂ26 season of the Southland Conference. The tournament was held March 8âÂÂ11, 2026, at Townsley Law Arena in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The tournament winner, McNeese, received the conference's automatic invitation to the 2026 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. Eight teams in the conference qualified for the tournament. The top two seeds received double byes into the semifinals in the merit-based format. The No. 3 and No. 4 seeds receive dsingle byes to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers used are 1) Head-to-head results, 2) comparison of records against individual teams in the conference starting with the top-ranked team(s) and working down and 3) NCAA NET rankings available on day following the conclusion of regular-season play.
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