| 1981 MEAC men's basketball tournament | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 1980–81 |
| Teams | 6 |
| Site | Campus sites |
| Finals site | Winston-Salem Memorial Coliseum Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
| Winning coach | A. B. Williamson (2nd title) |
| MVP | Unknown |
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| North Carolina A&T | 7 | – | 3 | .700 | 21 | – | 8 | .724 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Florida A&M | 6 | – | 4 | .600 | 17 | – | 11 | .607 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Howard † | 6 | – | 4 | .600 | 17 | – | 12 | .586 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bethune–Cookman | 4 | – | 6 | .400 | 13 | – | 15 | .464 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| South Carolina State | 4 | – | 6 | .400 | 11 | – | 15 | .423 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Delaware State | 3 | – | 7 | .300 | 8 | – | 18 | .308 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 1981 MEAC tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 1981 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament took place March 5–7 at Winston-Salem Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Howard defeated North Carolina A&T, 66–63 in the championship game, to win the MEAC Tournament title.
The Bison earned an automatic bid to the 1981 NCAA tournament as a No. 12 seed in the West region.
Format
All six conference members participated, with play beginning in the quarterfinal round. Teams were seeded based on their regular season conference record. This was the final time a third-place consolation game was played.
Bracket
| Quarterfinals March 5 | Semifinals March 6 | Final March 7 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | North Carolina A&T | 54 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Bethune-Cookman | 51 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Bethune-Cookman | 72 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | South Carolina State | 60 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | North Carolina A&T | 63 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Howard | 66 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Howard | 67 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Delaware State | 53 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Howard | 75 | Third place | |||||||||||
| 2 | Florida A&M | 73 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Bethune-Cookman | 72 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Florida A&M | 75 | ||||||||||||
* denotes overtime period
References
- "MEAC Men's Basketball 2019–2020 Record Book" (PDF). Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
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