BURNSVILLE, Minn. - The 2026 NSIC Women's Basketball Tournament bracket is set as the 22-game regular season ended Saturday evening.  The tournament will consist of 12 teams seeded using the conference 22-game win percentage. Minnesota State the regular season champion, Concordia-St. Paul, Minnesota Duluth and the University of Mary were the top four seeds and will receive a first round bye.

The first round of the tournament is set for Wednesday, Feb. 25, on the campuses of the higher seed in each match-up. First round games will be available for free on the NSIC Network.

SMSU earned the No. 5 seed and will host No. 12 seed Minnesota Crookston with game time at 6 p.m. inside the R/A Facility. SMSU defeated UMC, 76-66, in the lone meeting this season in Marshall on Jan. 24. 

The quarterfinals, semifinals, and championship will take place on Feb. 28 - March 3 at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. All rounds of the NSIC Women's Basketball Tournament played at the Sanford Pentagon will air exclusively live on Midco Sports and Midco Sports Plus.  Midco subscribers can view games either on Midco Sports channel 622 or stream via Midco Sports Plus. Fans that do not have Midco Sports must subscribe to Midco Sports Plus to view contests (available via web browser, via Android or IOS app or on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Roku). A monthly subscription will give fans full access to all 14 NSIC tournament games played at the Sanford Pentagon. Fans would also have access to all Midco Sports Plus content during the duration of their subscription. Subscriptions are for 30 days from the date of registration and can be cancelled at any time. Midco Sports Plus is a standalone product and fans do not need to have any other Midco services.

Full bracket here.
All times subject to change.

Tiebreakers:  
2/3 Seed
CSP and UMD played once, CSP earned the second seed via strength of schedule

8/9/10 Seed
SCSU/USF/MSUM did not play an equal number of times.  SCSU earned eighth seed, USF the ninth and MSUM the 10th seed via strength of schedule