This was the first Big Sky tournament at a neutral site and the first to include all twelve conference members.
[1] The top two seeds met in the final; regular season champion Weber State defeated Montana 62–59 and advanced to the NCAA tournament.
A tiebreaker system was used to seed teams with identical conference records.
Weber State was seeded fifteenth in the East regional and lost 71–53 to Xavier in the first round in St. Louis.
It was the tenth consecutive year that the Big Sky representative lost in the first round.