The 2016 Southland Conference men's basketball tournament, a part of the 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, took place March 9–12 at the Merrell Center in Katy, Texas.
[2][3] In addition, Central Arkansas was ineligible for the tournament for failure to meet enhanced NCAA Academic Performance Rating (APR) requirements.
The top 2 seeds earned double byes into the Semifinals.
Teams were seeded by record within the division and conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
* – denotes overtime period Source: Tournament MVP: Thomas Walkup All-Tournament Team: 2016 Southland Conference women's basketball tournament