1986 MEAC men's basketball tournament
Appearance
1986 MEAC men's basketball tournament | |
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Classification | Division I |
Season | 1985–86 |
Teams | 6 |
Site | Greensboro Coliseum Greensboro, North Carolina |
Champions | North Carolina A&T (11th title) |
Winning coach | Don Corbett (5th title) |
MVP | Thomas Griffis (North Carolina A&T) |
Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
North Carolina A&T † | 12 | – | 2 | .857 | 22 | – | 8 | .733 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Howard | 11 | – | 3 | .786 | 18 | – | 9 | .667 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Delaware State | 7 | – | 7 | .500 | 11 | – | 17 | .393 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coppin State | 7 | – | 7 | .500 | 10 | – | 17 | .370 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Morgan State | 7 | – | 7 | .500 | 7 | – | 20 | .259 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
South Carolina State | 5 | – | 9 | .357 | 10 | – | 18 | .357 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bethune–Cookman | 4 | – | 10 | .286 | 7 | – | 22 | .241 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maryland Eastern Shore | 3 | – | 11 | .214 | 5 | – | 23 | .179 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† 1986 MEAC tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll |
The 1986 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament took place March 6–8, 1986, at Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. North Carolina A&T defeated Howard, 53–52 in the championship game, to win its fifth consecutive MEAC Tournament title.
The Aggies earned an automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA tournament as a No. 16 seed in the Midwest region.
Format
[edit]Six of eight conference members participated, with play beginning in the quarterfinal round. Teams were seeded based on their regular season conference record.
Bracket
[edit]Quarterfinals March 6 | Semifinals March 7 | Final March 8 | ||||||||||||
1 | North Carolina A&T | 75 | ||||||||||||
5 | Bethune-Cookman | 66 | ||||||||||||
4 | South Carolina State | 85 | ||||||||||||
5 | Bethune–Cookman | 92 | ||||||||||||
1 | North Carolina A&T | 53 | ||||||||||||
2 | Howard | 52 | ||||||||||||
3 | Delaware State | 64 | ||||||||||||
6 | Maryland Eastern Shore | 75 | ||||||||||||
6 | Maryland-Eastern Shore | 55 | ||||||||||||
2 | Howard | 83 |
* denotes overtime period
References
[edit]- ^ "MEAC Men's Basketball 2019–2020 Record Book" (PDF). Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Retrieved February 28, 2022.
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