2010 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament

2010 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament
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Classification	Division I
Season	2009–10
Teams	12
Site	Boardwalk Hall Atlantic City, New Jersey
Champions	Temple Owls (9th title)
Winning coach	Fran Dunphy (3rd title)
MVP	Juan Fernandez (Temple)
Top scorer	Kevin Anderson Richmond (54 points)
Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournaments «2009  2011»

{{2009–10 Atlantic 10 men's basketball standings}} The 2010 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament was played initially at campus sites for the first round on March 9th, 2010 and subsequently at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey from March 12th through March 14th, 2010. The Temple Owls won the tournament and thereby received an automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.

Seeding for the tournament was determined by the conference standings at the end of the regular season. The last two teams in the standings did not qualify for the tournament.

Temple's victory was their third consecutive A-10 Tournament Championship. They became the first team to win three straight since UMass won five consecutive titles from 1992 through 1996.^[1]

The championship game was nationally televised on CBS, the first time the league's championship game was broadcast by the network.^[2] In years past, ESPN had televised the game.

Bracket

	First Round Campus Sites March 9					Second Round Boardwalk Hall March 12					Semifinals Boardwalk Hall March 13					Championship Game Boardwalk Hall March 14
						1	Temple	69
						8	St. Bonaventure	51
	8	St. Bonaventure	83
	9	Duquesne	71
											1	Temple	57
										5	Rhode Island	44
						4	Saint Louis	47
						5	Rhode Island	63
	5	Rhode Island	87
	12	Saint Joseph's	76
																1	Temple	56
																3	Richmond	52
						3	Richmond	77
						11	Massachusetts	72
	6	Charlotte	56
	11	Massachusetts	59
											3	Richmond	89*
										2	Xavier	85
						2	Xavier	78
						7	Dayton	73
	7	Dayton	70
	10	George Washington	60

Asterisk denotes game ended in overtime.

References

1. http://www.owlsports.com/news/2010/3/14/MBB_0314101912.aspx?path=mbball
2. http://www.atlantic10.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/030610aac.html