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1954 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

1954 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Teams 8
Site WVU Fieldhouse
Morgantown, WV
Champions George Washington (2nd title)
Winning coach William Reinhart (1st title)
← 1953
1955 →
1953–54 Southern Conference men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
George Washington 10 0   1.000     23 3   .885
Furman 6 1   .857     23 9   .719
Richmond 10 3   .769     23 8   .742
West Virginia 6 4   .600     12 11   .522
William & Mary 6 5   .545     9 14   .391
VMI 6 7   .462     11 12   .478
Davidson 3 5   .375     7 15   .318
Washington and Lee 3 9   .250     6 17   .261
Virginia Tech 3 13   .188     3 24   .111
The Citadel 1 7   .125     2 17   .105
Tournament winner
As of April 30, 1954; Rankings from AP Poll

The 1954 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 4–6, 1954 at the West Virginia Fieldhouse in Morgantown, West Virginia. The George Washington Colonials, led by head coach William Reinhart, won their second Southern Conference title and received the automatic berth to the 1954 NCAA Tournament.

The top eight finishers of the conference's ten 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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