2020-21 Great Midwest Men's Basketball Composite Schedule


INDIANAPOLIS - The Great Midwest Athletic Conference released its men’s basketball schedule with 11 member institutions for the 2020-21 season on Friday morning. 

The conference schedule is formatted as a double round robin with each school playing 20 contests spread throughout 12 weeks in December, January and February.
 
Teams were permitted to start practice on October 15 and are allowed institutional autonomy for additional scrimmages, exhibitions or outside competition.
 
In the event of a completed full double round robin for 2020-21, the Point Rating System (PRS), which was first utilized during the 2019-20 campaign, will not be applied towards the regular season standings. The PRS will still be calculated weekly by the league office in the event games are unable to be made up from the original schedule format.
 
The Great Midwest season debut is officially scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 3, with four contests to tip things off. The regular season will conclude on Saturday, Feb. 27, before the conference postseason field with eight teams is finalized.

The Great Midwest Men’s Basketball Championship tournament will make up the 13th week of the season. First-round quarterfinal games will fall on Tuesday, March 2, and the semifinals and final will be conducted on Friday, March 5, and Saturday, March 6. The top four seeds advancing into the playoffs will host first-round games and the semifinals and finals will be held at the top remaining seed. 
 
The winner of the conference tournament officially receives the automatic qualifying bid into the NCAA Championship with the remaining at-large regional selections determined by criteria weighed by the national committee.

The 2021 NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball Championships are still scheduled to be conducted with the Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., serving as host for the Elite Eight, Final Four and championship game from March 24-27 following competition from eight different regionals.
 
The start of last year’s 2020 NCAA Championship Midwest Regional was halted in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Walsh enters 2020-21 as a two-time defending Great Midwest conference tournament champion.  

Great Midwest Player of the Week award selections will resume with the first student-athletes being announced tentatively Monday, Dec. 7, potentially earlier. A date for the traditional Great Midwest Preseason Coaches Poll presented by Under Armour is still to be determined.

All start times on the conference website are listed in the Eastern Time Zone, will be determined by the home institution and are subject to change. Any non-conference competition that is being played will be announced at a later date by each member institution.