Classification Division I | Teams 8 | |
Site Barton Coliseum
Little Rock, AR Champions Arkansas–Little Rock (3rd title) Winning coach Mike Newell (3rd title) MVP Derrick Owens (Arkansas–Little Rock) | ||
The 1990 Trans America Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament (now known as the Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament) was held March 6–8 at Barton Coliseum in Little Rock, Arkansas.
In a rematch of the 1989 final, Arkansas–Little Rock upset top-seeded Centenary (LA) in the championship game, 105–95, to win their third (and second consecutive) TAAC/Atlantic Sun men's basketball tournament.
The Trojans, therefore, received the TAAC's automatic bid to the 1990 NCAA Tournament, where they lost to eventual-champion UNLV in the first round.
Houston Baptist departed the TAAC prior to the season, leaving the conference membership at nine. Nonetheless, only the top eight teams in the conference standings were invited to the tournament.
References
1990 TAAC Men's Basketball Tournament Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA