2005 Sun Belt Conference men's basketball tournament

2005 Sun Belt Conference men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2004–05
Teams	11
Site	UNT Coliseum Denton, TX
Champions	Louisiana–Lafayette (5th title)
Winning coach	Robert Lee (1st title)
MVP	Tiras Wade (Louisiana-Lafayette)
Sun Belt Conference men's basketball tournaments

The 2005 Sun Belt Conference men's basketball tournament was held March 4–8 at UNT Coliseum in Denton, TX.

Second-seed from the West division Louisiana–Lafayette defeated #1 seed from the West division Denver in the championship game, 88–69, to win their fifth Sun Belt men's basketball tournament.

The Ragin' Cajuns received an automatic bid to the 2004 NCAA tournament as the #13 seed in the Albuquerque region. No other Sun Belt members earned bids to the tournament.

Format

All eleven participating Sun Belt members were seeded based on regular season conference records.

Bracket

First Round March 4

Quarterfinals March 5 March 6

Semifinals March 7

Championship game March 8

1W

Denver

64

4E

Arkansas State

57

4E

Arkansas State

84

5W

North Texas

76

1W

Denver

77

2E

Western Kentucky

68

2E

Western Kentucky

78

3W

New Orleans

67

1W

Denver

69

2W

Louisiana-Lafayette

88

1E

Arkansas-Little Rock

64

5E

Florida International

69

4W

South Alabama

57

5E

Florida International

60

5E

Florida International

69

2W

Louisiana-Lafayette

80

2W

Louisiana-Lafayette

71

E3

Middle Tennessee State

57

3E

Middle Tennessee State

77

6W

New Mexico State

63

See also

• Sun Belt Conference men's basketball tournament