Get ready for starch madness.
The 2025 Big Sky Tournament will begin on Saturday at Idaho Central Arena in Boise. All 10 conference teams are in real life, hoping to win the conference title and book tickets to the NCAA tournament.
Northern Colorado and Montana We shared regular season titlesMatch records 15-3. The team splits the season series. In other words, No. The 1st seed came down to the tiebreaker between the two teams. The two schools will also split the season series against the 3rd Portland state. So the season sweep for Idaho, Northern Colorado, proved to be decisive.
Teams that have made it to the NCAA Tournament aim to advance from outside of Big Sky to notch the first victory of the tournament meeting since 2006 when Montana knocked off Boston College as a 12th seed.
Montana last season Became the first team to be seeded outside the top two He won the title at the Big Sky Conference Tournament and won the Big Sky title game as the No. 5 seed before advancing to the NCAA Tournament.
The Big Sky Tournament also uses the split quarter final format, where top two seeds (Northern Colorado and Montana) play against the winner of the first round of games in the second round on Sunday. The quarterfinals continue on Monday, with the semifinals scheduled for Tuesday. This format offers the winner of the second round game (probably the top two seeds) of one day's rest before the semi-finals.
This is a complete bracket along with the Starch Madness game schedule.
2025 Men's Big Sky Tournament Bracket
2025 Men's Big Sky Tournament Schedule
First round on March 8th
Game 1:No. 9 Weber State vs. No. 10 Sacramento State – 7:30pm, ESPN+
Game 2:No. 7 North Arizona vs. No. 8 Eastern Washington – 10pm ET, ESPN+
March 9th Quarterfinals
Game 3: Game 1 winner vs. No. 1 North Colorado – 7:30pm, ESPN+
Game 4: Game 2 Winner vs No. 2 Montana – 10pm ET, ESPN+
March 10th Quarterfinals
Game 5:No. 5 Montana vs. No. 4 Idaho – 7:30pm, ESPN+
Game 6:No. 3 Portland vs. No. 6 Idaho – 10pm, ESPN+
March 11th Semi-finals
Game 7: Game 3 winner vs Game 5 winner – 9pm ET, ESPNU
Game 8: Game 4 winners vs Game 6 winners – 10:30pm, ESPN2
March 12th Championship
Game 9: Game 7 winner vs Game 8 winner – 11:30pm, ESPN2
