Heartland Conference men's basketball tournament
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The Heartland Conference men's basketball tournament was the annual event that concluded the men's basketball season of the Heartland Conference, an NCAA Division II league that began play in 1999 and disbanded after the 2018–19 school year. The tournament, first held in 2003 and continuing through the conference's final basketball season of 2018–19, was a single-elimination tournament, with seeding based on regular-season records.[1]
Heartland Conference men's basketball tournament (defunct) | |
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Conference basketball championship | |
Sport | Basketball |
Conference | Heartland Conference |
Number of teams | 8 |
Format | Single-elimination tournament |
Current stadium | Union Multipurpose Activities Center |
Current location | Tulsa, OK |
Played | 2003–2019 |
Final champion | St. Edward's (3) |
Most championships | St. Mary's (TX) (6) |
Official website | Heartland men's basketball |
The winner, declared conference champion, received the Heartland's automatic bid to the NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament.
Following the 2018–19 school year, seven of the nine Heartland members joined the Lone Star Conference, with the other two joining the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association.