2000 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2000 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 1999–00
Teams 9
Site Alltel Arena
North Little Rock, AR
Champions Louisiana–Lafayette (3rd title)
Winning coach Jessie Evans (1st title)
MVP Virgil Stanescu (South Alabama)
Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments
«1999  2001»

The 2000 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 4–7 at Alltel Arena in North Little Rock, Arkansas.[1]

Louisiana–Lafayette defeated top-seeded South Alabama in the championship game, 51–50, to win their third Sun Belt men's basketball tournament.

The Ragin' Cajuns, in turn, received an automatic bid to the 2000 NCAA Tournament. No other Sun Belt members earned bids to the tournament.

Format

The Sun Belt added one team, Denver, in the offseason, bringing total membership up to nine.

The tournament field also expanded, adding a preliminary first round for two of the lowest seeded teams in the conference. With all nine Sun Belt teams seeded based on regular season conference records, the ninth-seeded team, rather than entering the play-in game, was paired with the tournament's top seed directly in the quarterfinals. Instead, the seventh- and eighth-seeded teams contested the play-in game, with a chance to play the second-seeded team in the ensuing quarterfinal round.

Bracket

  First Round
Saturday, March 4		 Quarterfinals
Saturday, March 4
Sunday, March 5		 Semifinals
Monday, March 6		 Championship
Tuesday, March 7
                                     
        
  1  South Alabama 74  
    9  Arkansas–Little Rock 58  
      
        
  1  South Alabama 64  
  5  Western Kentucky 61  
        
        
  5  Western Kentucky 79
    4  Florida International 60  
      
        
  1  South Alabama 50
  2  Louisiana–Lafayette 51
        
        
  3  Louisiana Tech 84
    6  Arkansas State 77  
      
        
  3  Louisiana Tech 58
  2  Louisiana–Lafayette 73  
7  New Orleans 67  
8  Denver 65  
  7  New Orleans 35
    2  Louisiana–Lafayette 55  
      

See also

References

  1. ↑ "1999–00 Sun Belt Conference Season Summary". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2016. Retrieved April 30, 2016.
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