Massive Sky Event 2023: Bracket, schedule, scores, groups, and extra

The Massive Sky Event is ready to get underway this weekend at Idaho Central Enviornment in Boise, Idaho. The winner will punch their automated bid to the 2023 males’s NCAA event. The Massive Sky is more likely to be a one-bid league this 12 months, which implies the whole season comes all the way down to the convention event.

The event has a brand new format this season. With the convention now down to 10 groups, the highest six groups within the Massive Sky convention have a bye into the quarterfinals, whereas the underside 4 groups play within the first spherical. If a kind of groups desires to crash the large dance, they’ll should win 4 recreation in 5 days to make the NCAA males’s event.

Japanese Washington is the highest seed within the Massive Sky event, with a 22-9 report total, and a 16-2 report within the convention. The Eagles received their first 16 video games in convention play — which set a brand new convention report — however they enter the event having misplaced their closing two video games within the Massive Sky, together with of their season finale towards Montana State. Japanese Washington is led by guard Steele Venters, who was named the Massive Sky MVP on Thursday. The 6’7 redshirt sophomore averages 15.1 factors per recreation, and was third within the convention with 70 3-pointers made. The Eagles are additionally stifling on protection. They held opponents to capturing simply 42% this season, and held opponents underneath 40% in 11 video games this 12 months.

Talking of Montana State, they’re the #2 seed within the convention, and enter the event with an identical 22-9 total report. Solely Montana State’s 15-3 convention report saved them from incomes the highest seed for the event. They’re led by guard RaeQuan Battle, who averages 17.1 factors per recreation this season, in addition to final 12 months’s Massive Sky MVP Jubrile Belo. Belo 12.8 factors per recreation together with 6.1 rebounds per recreation.

2023 males’s Massive Sky event bracket

2023 males’s Massive Sky event schedule

March 4 First Spherical

Recreation 1: Northern Arizona 87, Idaho 76

Recreation 2: Northern Colorado 84, Portland State 80

March 5 Second Spherical

Recreation 3: Northern Arizona 81, Japanese Washington 80

That’s proper, the #9 seed Northern Arizona — who entered play Sunday with a 10-22 report — knocked off the highest seed within the convention on this buzzer-beater:

Recreation 4: No. 2 Montana State vs. Northern Colorado, 8 p.m., ESPN+

March 6 Third Spherical

Recreation 5: No. 4 Montana vs. No. 5 Idaho State, 5:30 p.m., ESPN+

Recreation 6: No. 3 Weber State vs. No. 6 Sacramento State 8 p.m., ESPN+

March 7 Semifinals

Recreation 7: Winner Recreation 3 vs. Winner Recreation 5, 6:30 p.m., ESPNU

Recreation 8: Winner Recreation 4 vs. Winner Recreation 6, 9 p.m., ESPN2

March 8 Championship

Recreation 9: Winner Recreation 7 vs. Winner Recreation 8, 9:30 p.m., ESPN2