1981 TAAC Men's Basketball Tournament

1981 TAAC Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 1980–81
Teams 9
Site Hirsch Memorial Coliseum
Shreveport, LA
Champions Mercer (1st title)
Winning coach Bill Bibb (1st title)
MVP Tony Gattis (Mercer)
TAAC Men's Basketball Tournaments
«1980  1982»

Template:1980–81 TAAC men's basketball standings

The 1981 Trans America Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament (now known as the Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament) was held March 4–8, 1981 at the Hirsch Memorial Coliseum in Shreveport, Louisiana.[1]

Mercer upset top-seeded Houston Baptist in the championship game, 72–67, to win their first TAAC/Atlantic Sun men's basketball tournament. The Bears, in turn, received the TAAC's automatic bid to the 1981 NCAA Tournament. This was Mercer's first appearance in the Division I NCAA tournament.

Bracket

  First Round
Wednesday, March 4		 Second Round
Thursday, March 5		 Semifinals
Friday, March 6		 Championship
Sunday, March 8
                                     
        
          
            
      
        
   Houston Baptist 48  
   Centenary 47  
 Samford 73  
 Georgia Southern 57  
   Samford 69
     Centenary 76  
      
        
   Houston Baptist 67
   Mercer 72
        
        
   Mercer 78
     UALR 69  
      
        
   Mercer 59
   Northeast Louisiana 55  
 Northwestern State 91  
 Hardin–Simmons 88  
   Northwestern State 73
     Northeast Louisiana 79  
      

References

  1. ↑ "1980-81 Atlantic Sun Conference Season Summary". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2016. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
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