1998 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

1998 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 1997–98
Teams 10
Site Cajundome
Lafayette, LA
Champions South Alabama (3rd title)
Winning coach Bob Weltlich (1st title)
MVP Toby Madison (South Alabama)
Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments
«1997  1999»

The 1998 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held February 27–March 3 at the Cajundome at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette, Louisiana.[1]

Top-seeded South Alabama defeated hosts Southwestern Louisiana in the championship game, 62–59, to win their third overall, and second consecutive, Sun Belt men's basketball tournament.

The Jaguars, in turn, received an automatic bid to the 1998 NCAA Tournament. No other Sun Belt members earned bids to the tournament.

Format

No teams left or joined the Sun Belt before the season, leaving conference membership fixed at ten teams.

All teams participated in the tournament, maintaining its ten-team format. With all teams seeded based on regular-season conference records, the top six teams were all placed directly into the quarterfinal round while the four lowest-seeded teams were placed into the preliminary first round.

Bracket

  First Round
Friday, February 27		 Quarterfinals
Saturday, February 28		 Semifinals
Sunday, March 1		 Championship
Tuesday, March 3
                                     
        
  1  South Alabama 61  
    9  Western Kentucky 47  
9  Western Kentucky 75
8  Jacksonville 70  
  1  South Alabama 79  
  4  Arkansas–Little Rock 48  
        
        
  5  Louisiana Tech 61
    4  Arkansas–Little Rock 74  
      
        
  1  South Alabama 62
  3  SW Louisiana 59
        
        
  3  SW Louisiana 76
    6  New Orleans 69  
      
        
  3  SW Louisiana 81
  7  Lamar 65  
7  Lamar 103  
10  Texas–Pan American 89  
  7  Lamar 70
    2  Arkansas State 54  
      

See also

References

  1. ↑ "1997–98 Sun Belt Conference Season Summary". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2016. Retrieved April 25, 2016.
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