2001 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2001 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2000–01
Teams 11
Site Mitchell Center
Mobile, AL
Champions Western Kentucky (3rd title)
Winning coach Dennis Felton (1st title)
MVP Chris Marcus (Western Kentucky)
Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments
«2000  2002»

The 2001 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 2–6 at the Mitchell Center at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama.[1]

Top-seeded Western Kentucky defeated hosts South Alabama in the championship game, 64–54, to win their third Sun Belt men's basketball tournament.

The Hilltoppers, in turn, received an automatic bid to the 2001 NCAA Tournament. No other Sun Belt members earned bids to the tournament.

Format

The Sun Belt added three new teams prior to the 2000–01 season: Middle Tennessee State (Ohio Valley), New Mexico State (Big West), and North Texas (Big West). The conference's total membership increased to twelve.

The tournament field expanded once again, increasing from nine to eleven teams (NMSU did not compete). With all eleven participating Sun Belt members seeded based on regular season conference records, the five highest-seeded teams were awarded byes into the quarterfinal round while the six lowest-seeded teams entered the bracket in the preliminary first round.

Bracket

  First Round
Friday, March 2		 Quarterfinals
Saturday, March 3
Sunday, March 4		 Semifinals
Monday, March 5		 Championship
Tuesday, March 6
                                     
        
  1  Western Kentucky 68  
    9  Florida International 51  
9  Florida International 59
8  Denver 52  
  1  Western Kentucky 82  
  4  Louisiana–Lafayette 75  
        
        
  5  Louisiana Tech 56
    4  Louisiana–Lafayette 63  
      
        
  1  Western Kentucky 64
  2  South Alabama 54
        
        
  3  Arkansas State 82
    6  New Orleans 73  
11  Middle Tennessee 61
6  New Orleans 66  
  3  Arkansas State 53
  2  South Alabama 76  
7  Arkansas–Little Rock 80  
10  North Texas 67  
  7  Arkansas–Little Rock 62
    2  South Alabama 85  
      

See also

References

  1. ↑ "2000–01 Sun Belt Conference Season Summary". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2016. Retrieved April 30, 2016.
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