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1991 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament

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Classification
  
Division I

Champions
  
Seton Hall (1st title)

Teams
  
9

Site
  
Madison Square Garden New York City

Winning coach
  
P.J. Carlesimo (1st title)

MVP
  
Oliver Taylor (Seton Hall)

The 1991 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City, from March 7 to March 10, 1991. Its winner received the Big East Conference's automatic bid to the 1991 NCAA Tournament. It is a single-elimination tournament with four rounds. Syracuse finished with the best regular season conference record and was awarded the #1 seed.

Seton Hall defeated Georgetown in the championship game 74–62, to claim its first Big East Tournament championship.

Awards

Dave Gavitt Trophy (Most Valuable Player): Oliver Taylor, Seton Hall

All Tournament Team

  • Anthony Avent, Seton Hall
  • Marc Dowdell, Villanova
  • Alonzo Mourning, Georgetown
  • Eric Murdock, Providence
  • Dikembe Mutombo, Georgetown
  • Oliver Taylor, Seton Hall
  • References

    1991 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament Wikipedia