1977 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

1977 Sun Belt Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Teams 6
Site Charlotte Coliseum
Charlotte, NC
Champions UNC Charlotte (1st title)
Winning coach Lee Rose (1st title)
MVP Cedric Maxwell (UNC Charlotte)
Sun Belt Men's Basketball Tournaments
«1976  1978»

The 1977 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held February 27–March 11 at a combination of on-campus gymnasiums and the Charlotte Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina.[1] This was the first edition of the tournament.

UNC Charlotte defeated New Orleans in the championship game, 71–70, to win their first Sun Belt men's basketball tournament.

The 49ers, in turn, received an automatic bid to the 1977 NCAA Tournament, where they defeated Central Michigan, Syracuse, and Michigan on their way to the Final Four before falling to eventual-champions Marquette.

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
Sunday, February 27		 Semifinals
Tuesday, March 8		 Championship
Wednesday, March 9
1  UNC Charlotte 74
4  Jacksonville 69
5  South Florida 49
4  Jacksonville 64
1  UNC Charlotte 71
2  New Orleans 70
3  South Alabama 81
6  Georgia State 82*
6  Georgia State 66 Third place
Friday, March 11
2  New Orleans 86
  4  Jacksonville 102
  6  Georgia State 72

References

  1. ↑ "1976-77 Sun Belt Conference Season Summary". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2016. Retrieved March 9, 2016.
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