| 1980 TAAC men's basketball tournament | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 1979–80 |
| Teams | 7 |
| Site | Fant–Ewing Coliseum Monroe, LA |
| Champions | Centenary (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Tommy Canterbury (1st title) |
| MVP | George Lett (Centenary) |
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The 1980 Trans America Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament (now known as the ASUN men's basketball tournament) was held February 28–March 2, 1980 at the Fant–Ewing Coliseum in Monroe, Louisiana.
Centenary upset top-seeded Northeast Louisiana in the championship game, 79–77, to win their first TAAC/Atlantic Sun men's basketball tournament. However, the Gentlemen did not ultimately receive a bid to the 1980 NCAA tournament or the 1980 NIT.
Bracket
| Quarterfinals Thursday, February 28 | Semifinals Saturday, March 1 | Championship Sunday, March 2 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Northeast Louisiana | 102 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Mercer | 71 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Samford | 68 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Mercer | 74 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Northeast Louisiana | 77 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Centenary | 79 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Centenary | 76 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Houston Baptist | 69 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Centenary | 88 | Third place Sunday, March 2 | |||||||||||
| 2 | Pan American | 84 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Hardin–Simmons | 67 | 4 | Mercer | 90 | |||||||||
| 2 | Pan American | 83 | 2 | Texas–Pan American | 78 | |||||||||
References
- "1979-80 Atlantic Sun Conference Season Summary". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2016. Archived from the original on March 21, 2016. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
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