2013 Southland Conference men's basketball tournament
With the addition of Oral Roberts to the league, and the departures of Texas-Arlington, Texas-San Antonio, and Texas State to the WAC, a new tournament format was used from this year.The tournament bracket still included the top eight regular season finishers, but the first and second seeds received double byes and began play in the semifinal round.[1] Texas A&M-Corpus Christi was ineligible for postseason play, and thus could not complete in the tournament.Northwestern State won the tiebreaker over Oral Roberts and received the second double bye.Oral Roberts was the three seed, while Southeastern Louisiana took the four based on conference tiebreakers.