The 2016 Big South men's basketball tournament was held from March 3–6, 2016, at the Pope Convocation Center in Buies Creek, North Carolina on the campus of Campbell University.
Coastal Carolina was originally scheduled to host the basketball tournament for a fourth consecutive year, but, on August 30, 2015, the school announced that they would be joining the Sun Belt Conference effective July 1, 2016.
[1] Big South bylaws state that member schools leaving the conference with less than two years notice are not eligible to host championships.
The top five teams received a first round bye.
Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.