2003 Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament

2003 Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 200203
Teams 9[1]
First round site campus sites
Quarterfinals site U.S. Cellular Arena
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Semifinals site U.S. Cellular Arena
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Finals site U.S. Cellular Arena
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Champions Milwaukee (1st title)
Winning coach Bruce Pearl (1st title)
MVP Clay Tucker (Milwaukee)
Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournaments
«2002  2004»

The 2003 Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament took place at the end of the 2002–03 regular season. The better seed hosted each first round match. Milwaukee hosted the second round, semifinals, and championship game.

Seeds

All Horizon League schools played in the tournament. Teams were seeded by 2002–03 Horizon League season record, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The top 2 teams received a bye to the semifinals and the third seed received a bye to the quarterfinals.

Bracket

  First Round
Tuesday, March 4
Second Round
Friday, March 7
Semifinals
Saturday, March 8
Championship
Tuesday, March 11
                                     
   
  1  Butler  
     double bye  
 
   
  1  Butler 58  
  5  Detroit 55  
4  Loyola 69  
9  Cleveland State 57  
  4  Loyola 84
    5  Detroit 98  
5  Detroit 78
8  Wright State 61  
  1  Butler 52
  2  Milwaukee 69
   
   
  2  Milwaukee
     double bye  
 
   
  2  Milwaukee 75
  3  UIC 73  
3  UIC  
 bye  
  3  UIC 79
    7  Youngstown State 59  
6  Green Bay 61
7  Youngstown State 65  

First round games at campus sites of higher seeds
Second round and semifinals hosted by the top seed. Championship hosted by best remaining seed

See also

References

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