[1][2] Regular season champion Nevada defeated seventh-seeded Idaho State in the championship game 79–63 for their second consecutive (and second overall) Big Sky tournament title.
Nevada was nearly upset in the first round by last-place Idaho, but held to win by three points and advanced.
[3] For the second year, all eight Big Sky members participated in the conference tournament; this was the first in which all seven games were played at the same venue.
Teams were seeded based on regular season conference records, and all were entered into the quarterfinal round.
[3] Source:[3][4] The Wolf Pack received an automatic bid to the 64-team NCAA tournament, where they lost to NC State (also nicknamed the Wolfpack) in the first round at The Pit in Albuquerque, New Mexico.