| 1982 MEAC men's basketball tournament | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 1981–82 |
| Teams | 7 |
| Site | Campus sites |
| Finals site | Winston-Salem Memorial Coliseum Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
| Champions | North Carolina A&T (7th title) |
| Winning coach | Don Corbett (1st title) |
| MVP | Eric Boyd (North Carolina A&T) |
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| North Carolina A&T † | 10 | – | 2 | .833 | 19 | – | 9 | .679 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Howard | 9 | – | 3 | .750 | 17 | – | 11 | .607 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| South Carolina State | 7 | – | 5 | .583 | 10 | – | 15 | .400 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Florida A&M | 5 | – | 7 | .417 | 10 | – | 17 | .370 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Delaware State | 4 | – | 8 | .333 | 13 | – | 13 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bethune–Cookman | 4 | – | 8 | .333 | 10 | – | 18 | .357 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maryland Eastern Shore | 3 | – | 9 | .250 | 6 | – | 20 | .231 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1982 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament took place March 5–7 at Winston-Salem Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. North Carolina A&T defeated Howard, 79–67 in the championship game, to win the MEAC Tournament title.
The Aggies earned an automatic bid to the 1982 NCAA tournament as a No. 12 seed in the West region.
Format
All seven conference members participated, with play beginning in the quarterfinal round. Teams were seeded based on their regular season conference record.
Bracket
| Quarterfinals March 5 | Semifinals March 6 | Final March 7 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | North Carolina A&T | 47 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Florida A&M | 45 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Florida A&M | 47 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Delaware State | 42 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | North Carolina A&T | 79 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Howard | 67 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | South Carolina State | 53 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Bethune-Cookman | 54 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Bethune-Cookman | 49 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Howard | 50 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Howard | 80 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Maryland Eastern Shore | 73 | ||||||||||||
References
- "MEAC Men's Basketball 2019–2020 Record Book" (PDF). Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
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