*** Welcome to piglix ***

1996 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

1996 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Teams 9
Site Greensboro Coliseum
Greensboro, NC
Champions Western Carolina (1st title)
Winning coach Phil Hopkins (1st title)
← 1995
1997 →
1995–96 Southern Conference men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
North
Davidson 14 0   1.000     25 5   .833
VMI 10 4   .714     18 10   .643
Marshall 8 6   .571     17 11   .607
East Tennessee State 3 11   .214     7 20   .259
Appalachian State 3 11   .214     8 21   .276
South
Western Carolina 10 4   .714     17 13   .567
Chattanooga 9 5   .643     15 12   .556
Furman 6 8   .429     10 17   .370
The Citadel 5 9   .357     10 16   .385
Georgia Southern 2 12   .143     3 23   .115
SoCon Tournament winner
As of April 30, 1996; Rankings from AP Poll

The 1996 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from February 29–March 3, 1996, at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Western Carolina Catamounts, led by head coach Phil Hopkins, won their first Southern Conference title and received the automatic berth to the 1996 NCAA Tournament.

The top nine 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 four rounds, the first of which featured one game, with the winners moving on to the quarterfinal round.

* Overtime game


...
Wikipedia

...