1995 Big South Conference men's basketball tournament
The 1995 Big South Conference men's basketball tournament took place March 3–5, 1995, at the Vines Center in Lynchburg, Virginia, the home of the Liberty Flames. For the third time in their school history, the Charleston Southern Buccaneers won the tournament, led by head coach Gary Edwards.[1]
| 1995 Big South Conference men's basketball tournament | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 1994–95 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Site | Vines Center Lynchburg, VA |
| Champions | Charleston Southern (3rd title) |
| Winning coach | Gary Edwards (1st title) |
| MVP | Eric Burks (Charleton Southern) |
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UNC Greensboro | 14 | – | 2 | .875 | 20 | – | 6 | .769 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Charleston Southern † | 12 | – | 4 | .750 | 19 | – | 10 | .655 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UMBC | 10 | – | 6 | .625 | 13 | – | 14 | .481 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radford | 9 | – | 7 | .563 | 16 | – | 12 | .571 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Liberty | 7 | – | 9 | .438 | 12 | – | 16 | .429 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UNC Asheville | 7 | – | 9 | .438 | 11 | – | 16 | .407 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Towson State | 6 | – | 10 | .375 | 12 | – | 15 | .444 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winthrop | 4 | – | 12 | .250 | 7 | – | 20 | .259 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coastal Carolina | 3 | – | 13 | .188 | 6 | – | 20 | .231 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 1995 Big South tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Before the season, Campbell departed the Big South due to scheduling conflicts. This left the conference with just five teams having played at the Division I level for at least five years, short of the six such members required by the NCAA for a conference to receive an automatic bid into the NCAA tournament.[2] As a result, the Big South did not have an automatic qualifier to the 1995 NCAA tournament,[3] its first time without an auto-bid since 1990; it regained an auto-bid in 1996 and has maintained an auto-bid in every year since, as of 2021.
Charleston Southern would receive its first NCAA tournament bid in 1997.
Format
The top eight finishers of the conference's nine teams participated in the tournament, hosted at the Vines Center. Teams were seeded by conference winning percentage. This was the last year for Towson as a member of the conference.
Bracket
| Quarterfinals March 3 | Semifinals March 4 | Finals March 5 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | UNC Greensboro | 75 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Winthrop | 51 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | UNC Greensboro | 71 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Radford | 59 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Radford | 63 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | UNC Asheville | 47 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | UNC Greensboro | 67 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Charleston Southern | 68 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | UMBC | 54 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Liberty | 57 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Charleston Southern | 60 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Liberty | 58 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Charleston Southern | 85 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Towson State | 55 | ||||||||||||
* Asterisk indicates overtime game
All-Tournament Team
- Eric Burks, Charleston Southern
- Brett Larrick, Charleston Southern
- Derrick Nix, UNC Greensboro
- Eric Cuthrell, UNC Greensboro
- Antoine Dalton, Radford
References
- Big South Men's Basketball History - p. 4
- ATKINSON, CHARLIE. "MAYBE BIG SOUTH HASN'T SEEN THE LAST OF CAMPBELL ONE COACH PRIVATELY QUESTIONS MOVE TO NEW LEAGUE". Greensboro News and Record. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
- Writer, CHARLIE ATKINSON Staff. "BY ALL ACCOUNTS, THIS SHOULD BE UNCG'S YEAR\ CHARLESTON SOUTHERN WILL CHALLENGE". Greensboro News and Record. Retrieved December 29, 2021.