Summit League Championship Information

2016 Summit tournament site: Sioux Falls Arena, Sioux Falls, SD
2016 Summit tournament dates: March 5th-8th, 2016

The values shown below were frozen prior to the beginning of the first round. However, you can still find our latest projected odds for each team to win the conference tournament in the last column of the standings table at the bottom of the page.

Seed Team Semi Champ Win

NOTE: We use the structure below to calculate home advantage.

In some cases this may not be the true game location; instead we may use a proxy location that we think makes our home advantage calculation more accurate than simply treating the location as a neutral court.

  • Quarterfinals - neutral site.
  • Semifinals - neutral site.
  • Championship Game - neutral site.

The 2016 Summit tournament bracket odds table above lists the round-by-round survival odds for every 2016 Summit tournament team. Using win odds calculations derived from our sophisticated power ratings, we analyze the likelihood and expected outcome of every possible path to the Summit tournament championship for every team in the 2016 Summit bracket.

Projected Conference Standings

Summit

  Current Projection Playoffs
Team conf W L conf W L overall W L Win Conf Win Tourn
IPFW 12 4 12.0 4.0 24.0 9.0 50.3% 0.0%
S Dakota St 12 4 12.0 4.0 26.0 7.0 49.7% 100.0%
Neb Omaha 10 6 10.0 6.0 18.0 13.0 0.0% 0.0%
IUPUI 9 7 9.0 7.0 13.0 19.0 0.0% 0.0%
N Dakota St 8 8 8.0 8.0 20.0 13.0 0.0% 0.0%
Denver 7 9 7.0 9.0 16.0 15.0 0.0% 0.0%
Oral Roberts 6 10 6.0 10.0 14.0 17.0 0.0% 0.0%
South Dakota 5 11 5.0 11.0 14.0 18.0 0.0% 0.0%
W Illinois 3 13 3.0 13.0 10.0 17.0 0.0% 0.0%

A team's relative odds to win the 2016 Summit League Championship depend only partly on their Summit bracket seed. Winning the Summit League Championship also depends on the dynamics of the 2016 Summit bracket. In some cases, the team with a better Summit League Championship seed may actually face a harder path to the Summit League Championship championship than a team with a worse Summit tournament seed.

In addition, because Summit tournament seeds are based on win-loss records in Summit conference games, Summit tournament seeds are not always the most accurate measure of a team's true performance level. This is another reason why higher seeded teams in the Summit bracket can have better odds to win the 2016 Summit League Championship than lower seeded teams in the Summit bracket.