1981 MEAC men's basketball tournament
Appearance
1981 MEAC men's basketball tournament | |
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Classification | Division I |
Season | 1980–81 |
Teams | 6 |
Site | Campus sites |
Finals site | Winston-Salem Memorial Coliseum Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
Winning coach | A. B. Williamson (2nd title) |
MVP | Unknown |
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
North Carolina A&T | 7 | – | 3 | .700 | 21 | – | 8 | .724 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Florida A&M | 6 | – | 4 | .600 | 17 | – | 11 | .607 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Howard † | 6 | – | 4 | .600 | 17 | – | 12 | .586 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bethune–Cookman | 4 | – | 6 | .400 | 13 | – | 15 | .464 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
South Carolina State | 4 | – | 6 | .400 | 11 | – | 15 | .423 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Delaware State | 3 | – | 7 | .300 | 8 | – | 18 | .308 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† 1981 MEAC tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll |
The 1981 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament took place March 5–7 at Winston-Salem Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Howard defeated North Carolina A&T, 66–63 in the championship game, to win the MEAC Tournament title.
The Bison earned an automatic bid to the 1981 NCAA tournament as a No. 12 seed in the West region.
Format
[edit]All six conference members participated, with play beginning in the quarterfinal round. Teams were seeded based on their regular season conference record. This was the final time a third-place consolation game was played.
Bracket
[edit]Quarterfinals March 5 | Semifinals March 6 | Final March 7 | ||||||||||||
1 | North Carolina A&T | 54 | ||||||||||||
4 | Bethune-Cookman | 51 | ||||||||||||
4 | Bethune-Cookman | 72 | ||||||||||||
5 | South Carolina State | 60 | ||||||||||||
1 | North Carolina A&T | 63 | ||||||||||||
3 | Howard | 66 | ||||||||||||
3 | Howard | 67 | ||||||||||||
6 | Delaware State | 53 | ||||||||||||
3 | Howard | 75 | Third place | |||||||||||
2 | Florida A&M | 73 | ||||||||||||
4 | Bethune-Cookman | 72 | ||||||||||||
2 | Florida A&M | 75 |
* denotes overtime period
References
[edit]- ^ "MEAC Men's Basketball 2019–2020 Record Book" (PDF). Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Retrieved March 3, 2022.