Classification Division I Teams 6 | Season 1978–79 Winning coach Lenny Fant (1st title) | |
Site Fant–Ewing Coliseum
Monroe, LA Champions Northeast Louisiana (1st title) | ||
The 1979 Trans America Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament (now known as the Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament) was held March 1–3 at the Fant–Ewing Coliseum in Monroe, Louisiana. This was the first edition of the tournament.
Northeast Louisiana defeated Mercer in the championship game, 90–69, to win their first TAAC/Atlantic Sun men's basketball tournament. The Indians, in turn, received a bid to the 1979 NIT.
Only six of the eight TAAC members participated in the inaugural tournament. However, this would be the only TAAC tournament for Oklahoma City, who subsequently joined the Midwestern City Conference for the 1979–80 season.
References
1979 TAAC Men's Basketball Tournament Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA