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1940 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

1940 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Teams 8
Site Thompson Gym
Raleigh, NC
Champions North Carolina (7th title)
Winning coach Bill Lange (1st title)
← 1939
1941 →
1939–40 Southern Conference men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Duke 13 2   .867     19 7   .731
North Carolina 11 2   .846     23 3   .885
Washington and Lee 7 3   .700     13 5   .722
Wake Forest 10 5   .667     13 9   .591
Maryland 7 5   .583     14 9   .609
Clemson 9 7   .563     9 12   .429
Richmond 5 4   .556     11 6   .647
The Citadel 6 5   .545     8 9   .471
William & Mary 6 5   .545     12 11   .522
Furman 4 6   .400     11 11   .500
North Carolina State 5 10   .333     8 11   .421
Davidson 4 11   .267     8 13   .381
South Carolina 3 10   .231     5 13   .278
VMI 2 9   .182     3 12   .200
Virginia Tech 1 9   .100     4 15   .211
Tournament winner
As of April 30, 1940; Rankings from AP Poll

The 1940 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from February 29–March 2, 1940, at Thompson Gym in Raleigh, North Carolina. The North Carolina Tar Heels won their seventh Southern Conference title, led by head coach Bill Lange.

The top eight finishers of the conference's fifteen members were eligible for the tournament. Teams were seeded based on conference winning percentage. The tournament used a preset bracket consisting of three rounds.

* Overtime game


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