| 1985 MEAC men's basketball tournament | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 1984–85 |
| Teams | 6 |
| Site | Palestra Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Champions | North Carolina A&T (10th title) |
| Winning coach | Don Corbett (4th 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 | – | 10 | .655 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Howard | 9 | – | 3 | .750 | 15 | – | 11 | .577 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Delaware State | 8 | – | 4 | .667 | 12 | – | 17 | .414 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| South Carolina State | 7 | – | 4 | .636 | 11 | – | 16 | .407 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bethune–Cookman | 4 | – | 7 | .364 | 8 | – | 19 | .296 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maryland Eastern Shore | 2 | – | 10 | .167 | 3 | – | 25 | .107 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Morgan State | 1 | – | 11 | .083 | 3 | – | 25 | .107 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1985 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament took place March 7–9, 1985 at the Palestra in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. North Carolina A&T defeated Howard, 71–69 in the championship game, to win its fourth consecutive MEAC Tournament title.
The Aggies earned an automatic bid to the 1985 NCAA tournament as a No. 16 seed in the Midwest region.
Format
Six of seven conference members participated, with play beginning in the quarterfinal round. Teams were seeded based on their regular season conference record. After finishing 7th in the regular season standings, Morgan State did not participate.
Bracket
| Quarterfinals March 7 | Semifinals March 8 | Final March 9 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | North Carolina A&T | 97 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Bethune–Cookman | 75 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | South Carolina State | 53 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Bethune–Cookman | 54 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | North Carolina A&T | 71 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Howard | 69 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Delaware State | 68 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Maryland Eastern Shore | 62 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Delaware State | 59 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Howard | 73 | ||||||||||||
References
- "MEAC Men's Basketball 2019–2020 Record Book" (PDF). Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
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