1979 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

1979 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 197879
Teams 6
Site Charlotte Coliseum
Charlotte, NC
Champions Jacksonville (1st title)
Winning coach Tates Locke (1st title)
MVP James Ray (Jacksonville)
Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments
«1978  1980»

The 1979 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held February 23–25 at a combination of on-campus gymnasiums and the Charlotte Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina.[1]

Jacksonville defeated South Florida in the championship game, 68–54, to win their first Sun Belt men's basketball tournament.

The Dolphins, in turn, received a bid for the 1979 NCAA Tournament, where they lost to Virginia Tech in the first round. Top-seeded South Alabama, who lost to Jacksonville in the semifinal round, still received an at-large bid, falling to Louisville in the second round.

Format

All six of the conference's members participated in the tournament field. They were seeded based on regular season conference records with the top two teams earning byes to the semifinal round.

All of the games before the championship were played at the campus gym of the higher-seeded team. The championship game, meanwhile, was played at the Charlotte Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Bracket

  Quarterfinals
Friday, February 23
Semifinals
Saturday, February 24
Championship
Sunday, February 25
                           
        
  1  South Alabama 77  
    4  Jacksonville 85  
5  New Orleans 47
  4  Jacksonville 56  
    4  Jacksonville 68
  2  South Florida 54
  3  UNC Charlotte 51  
6  Georgia State 47  
2  South Florida 50
    3  UNC Charlotte 47  
      

References

  1. "1978-79 Sun Belt Conference Season Summary". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
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