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1997 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

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Classification
  
Division I

Winning coach
  
Tom Conrad (1st title)

Teams
  
8

MVP
  
Peter Aluma (Liberty)

Site
  
Vines Center Lynchburg, VA

Champions
  
Charleston Southern (4th title)

The 1997 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from February 26–March 1, 1997, at the Vines Center in Lynchburg, Virginia, the home of the Liberty Flames. For the fourth time in their school history, the Charleston Southern Buccaneers won the tournament, led by head coach Tom Conrad.

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Format

All eight teams participated in the tournament, hosted at the Vines Center. Teams were seeded by conference winning percentage. This was the last season for UNC Greensboro as a member of the league, who left for the Southern Conference the following season.

Bracket

*Asterisk indicates overtime game

  • Source

    • All-Tournament Team

  • Peter Aluma, Liberty
  • Rolando Hourruitiner, Charleston Southern
  • Brett Larrick, Charleston Southern
  • Larry Jackson, Liberty
  • Corey Reed, Radford

    • References

    1997 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Wikipedia
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