Classification Division I Site UCF Arena
Orlando, FL | Teams 8 | |
Champions Florida International (1st title) Winning coach Bob Weltlich (1st title) MVP James Mazyck (Florida International) | ||
The 1995 Trans America Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament (now known as the Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament) was held March 2–4 at the UCF Arena in Orlando, Florida.
Eighth-seeded Florida International upset Mercer in the championship game, 68–57, to win their first TAAC/Atlantic Sun men's basketball tournament. FIU became the first team in the history of the TAAC/Atlantic Sun tournament to win the tournament as the lowest-seeded team in the field.
The Golden Panthers, therefore, received the TAAC's automatic bid to the 1995 NCAA Tournament, their first Division I tournament appearance.
Even though the TAAC added one more team for the 1994–95 season (Campbell), the tournament field remained fixed at eight. Along with Campbell, fellow newcomers College of Charleston (who won the TAAC regular season title) and Florida Atlantic were not part of the final bracket.