2006 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament

2006 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 200506
Teams 12
Site FedExForum
Memphis, TN
Champions Memphis (1st title)
Winning coach John Calipari (1st title)
MVP Shawne Williams (Memphis)
Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournaments
«2005  2007»
2005–06 Conference USA men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
#4 Memphis 13 1   .929     33 4   .892
UAB 12 2   .857     24 7   .774
UTEP 11 3   .786     21 10   .677
Houston 9 5   .643     21 10   .677
UCF 7 7   .500     14 15   .483
Rice 6 8   .429     12 16   .429
Tulane 6 8   .429     12 17   .414
Tulsa 6 8   .429     11 17   .393
Marshall 5 9   .357     12 16   .429
SMU 4 10   .286     13 16   .448
Southern Miss 3 11   .214     10 21   .323
East Carolina 2 12   .143     8 20   .286
2006 C-USA Tournament winner
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2006 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 8–11 at the FedExForum in Memphis, Tennessee.[1]

Top-seeded Memphis defeated UAB in the championship game, 57–46, to clinch their first Conference USA men's tournament championship. It would be the Tigers' first of seven C-USA titles in an eight-year period.

The Tigers, in turn, received an automatic bid to the 2006 NCAA Tournament. They were joined in the tournament by fellow C-USA member UAB, who earned an at-large bid.

Format

Conference USA saw some drastic changes to its membership prior to the season. Eight teams, Charlotte (Atlantic 10), Cincinnati (Big East), DePaul (Big East), Louisville (Big East), Marquette (Big East), Saint Louis (Atlantic 10), South Florida (Big East), and TCU (Mountain West), departed the conference, while six new teams were added, Marshall (MAC), Rice (WAC), SMU (WAC), Tulsa (WAC), UCF (Sun Belt), and UTEP (WAC). Total membership settled at twelve teams.

Even with all of the newly departed and -added teams, the tournament's format remained exactly the same. The top four teams were given byes into the quarterfinal round while the next eight teams were placed into the first round. The two teams with the worst conference records were not invited to the tournament. All remaining tournament seeds were determined by regular season conference records.

Bracket

  First Round
Wednesday, March 8
Quarterfinals
Thursday, March 9
Semifinals
Friday, March 10
Championship
Saturday, March 11
                                     
        
  1  Memphis 75  
    8  Tulane 56  
9  Marshall 58
8  Tulane 64  
  1  Memphis 68  
  4  Houston 54  
5  UCF 65  
12  East Carolina 52  
  5  UCF 52
    4  Houston 71  
      
        
  1  Memphis 57
  2  UAB 46
        
        
  3  UTEP 66
    11  Southern Miss 47  
11  Southern Miss 66
6  Tulsa 61  
  3  UTEP 60
  2  UAB 63  
7  Rice 59  
10  SMU 61  
  10  SMU 55
    2  UAB 69  
      

See also

References

  1. "2005-06 Conference USA Season Summary". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2016. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
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