Tournament first round games were played at the campus of the higher seeded team on March 6.
The remainder of the tournament was held on March 9 and 10, 2018 at the Delmar Fieldhouse in Houston.
As a result, Texas Southern received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
Grambling State, the conference's regular season champion, was ineligible for postseason play due to APR violations.
First round games at campus sites of lower-numbered seeds