The 1976 Metro Conference men's basketball tournament was held March 4–6 at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky.[2] This was the first edition of the tournament.
| 1976 Metro Conference men's basketball tournament | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 1975–76 |
| Teams | 6 |
| Site | Freedom Hall Louisville, KY |
| Champions | Cincinnati (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Gale Catlett (1st title) |
| MVP | Dexter Reed (Memphis State) |
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tulane | 1 | – | 0 | 1.000 | 18 | – | 9 | .667 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 12 Cincinnati † | 2 | – | 1 | .667 | 25 | – | 6 | .806 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Louisville | 2 | – | 1 | .667 | 20 | – | 8 | .714 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Memphis State | 1 | – | 1 | .500 | 21 | – | 9 | .700 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Georgia Tech | 0 | – | 1 | .000 | 13 | – | 14 | .481 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Saint Louis | 0 | – | 2 | .000 | 13 | – | 14 | .481 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 1976 Metro Conference tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cincinnati defeated Memphis State in the championship game, 103–95, to win their first Metro men's basketball tournament.
The Bearcats, in turn, received a bid to the 1976 NCAA Tournament. They were joined by fellow Metro member, and tournament runner-up, Memphis State, who earned an at-large bid.
Format
editAll six of the conference's members participated in the tournament field. They were seeded based on regular season conference records, with the top two teams earning byes into the semifinal round. The other four teams entered into the preliminary first round.
Bracket
edit| First round Thursday March 4 | Semifinals Friday, March 5 | Championship Saturday, March 6 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Cincinnati | 71 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Georgia Tech | 60 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Tulane | 68 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Georgia Tech | 74 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Cincinnati | 103 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Memphis State | 95 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Memphis State | 73 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Saint Louis | 69 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Memphis State | 87 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Louisville | 76 | ||||||||||||
References
edit- ^ sports-reference.com 1975-76 Metropolitan Collegiate Athletic Conference Season Summary
- ^ "1975-76 Metro Conference Season Summary". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2016. Retrieved April 18, 2016.