College basketball tournament
1989 Big South Conference men's basketball tournament | |
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Classification | Division I |
Season | 1988–89 |
Teams | 7 |
Site | Winthrop Coliseum Rock Hill, SC |
Champions | UNC Asheville (1st title) |
Winning coach | Don Doucette (1st title) |
MVP | Milton Moore (UNC Asheville) |
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coastal Carolina | 9 | – | 3 | .750 | 14 | – | 14 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Campbell | 8 | – | 4 | .667 | 18 | – | 12 | .600 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Baptist | 6 | – | 6 | .500 | 12 | – | 16 | .429 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UNC Asheville † | 6 | – | 6 | .500 | 16 | – | 14 | .533 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Radford | 5 | – | 7 | .417 | 15 | – | 13 | .536 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Winthrop | 5 | – | 7 | .417 | 16 | – | 13 | .552 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Augusta State | 3 | – | 9 | .250 | 5 | – | 23 | .179 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† 1989 Big South tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll |
The 1989 Big South Conference men's basketball tournament took place March 2–4, 1989, at the Winthrop Coliseum in Rock Hill, South Carolina. For the first time in their school history, the UNC Asheville Bulldogs won the tournament, led by head coach Don Doucette.
Format
All of the conference's seven members participated in the tournament, hosted at the Winthrop Coliseum, home of the Winthrop Eagles. Teams were seeded by conference winning percentage.
Bracket
Quarterfinals March 2 | Semifinals March 3 | Finals March 4 | ||||||||||||
1 | Coastal Carolina | 76 | ||||||||||||
4 | UNC Asheville | 88 | ||||||||||||
4 | UNC Asheville | 62 | ||||||||||||
5 | Radford | 58 | ||||||||||||
2 | Campbell | 78 | ||||||||||||
4 | UNC Asheville | 93 | ||||||||||||
2 | Campbell | 90 | ||||||||||||
7 | Augusta State | 84 | ||||||||||||
2 | Campbell | 78 | ||||||||||||
6 | Winthrop | 55 | ||||||||||||
3 | Baptist | 68 | ||||||||||||
6 | Winthrop | 81 |
All-Tournament Team
- Milton Moore, UNC Asheville
- Harvey Shropshire, UNC Asheville
- Brent Keck, UNC Asheville
- Mark Mocnik, Campbell
- Henry Wilson, Campbell
- Greg Washington, Winthrop
This was the last year in which six players were selected to the All-Tournament Team. It was reduced to five the following year.
References
Big South Conference men's basketball tournament | |
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1989 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournaments | |
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