GPAC Men's Basketball Semifinals Complete

(Sioux City, Iowa) – The top seeded Jamestown Jimmies advanced to the championship game of GPAC Men's Basketball Tournament with a win on Saturday. They will take on third seeded Dordt in the title tilt on Tuesday.

The Jimmies led wire to wire in a win over the fifth seed Concordia Bulldogs. Jamestown shot 53 percent from the field in a 95-77 victory. It was a much tighter contest on the other side of the bracket where third seed Dordt edged second seed Morningside 83-82. The squads played even basketball through the half, and traded leads the second half before the Defenders hit the game winner with two seconds left.

GPAC Championship Tuesday will be on Tuesday, February 28 at 7 pm in Jamestown, North Dakota. The GPAC Postseason Tournament Champion garners an automatic berth to the NAIA National Basketball Tournament (the runner-up gains the berth if the regular season champion (top seed Jamestown) wins the postseason).

64 teams will make the NAIA Men's Basketball Postseason this year. Games will be played at First and Second Round Sites on March 7-8 (four team pods). The 16 opening round site winners will play in the NAIA Men's Basketball National Championship is set for March 13-18, 2023, in Kansas City, Missouri, at Municipal Auditorium.

2023 Great Plains Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Post-Season Tournament

GPAC Men's Basketball Quarterfinals – Tuesday and Wednesday, February 21 and 22
#1 Jamestown 76, #8 Hastings 62
#5 Concordia 90, #4 Northwestern 77
#2 Morningside 101, #7 Briar Cliff 95
#3 Dordt 93, #6 Dakota Wesleyan 66

GPAC Men's Basketball Semifinals – Saturday, February 25
#1 Jamestown 95, #5 Concordia 77
#3 Dordt 83, #2 Morningside 82

GPAC Men's Basketball Championship Tuesday, February 28
#3 Dordt at #1 Jamestown, 7pm