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2002 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament

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Classification
  
Division I

Teams
  
12

Season
  
2001–02

Champions
  
Cincinnati (3rd title)

Site
  
Firestar Center Cincinnati, OH

Winning coach
  
Bob Huggins (3rd title)

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The 2002 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 6–9 at the Firestar Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Top-seeded Cincinnati defeated Marquette in the championship game, 77–63, to clinch their third Conference USA men's tournament championship.

The Bearcats, in turn, received an automatic bid to the 2002 NCAA Tournament. They were joined in the tournament by fellow C-USA members Marquette and Charlotte, both of whom earned at-large bids.

Format

Conference USA added two new teams, East Carolina and TCU, bringing total membership to fourteen. ECU was placed in the American Division, and TCU into the National Division.

Even with the league expansion, there were no new changes to the tournament format. The top four teams were given byes into the quarterfinal round while the next eight teams were placed into the first round. The two teams at the bottom of the conference standings, therefore, did not qualify for the tournament. All remaining tournament seeds were determined by regular season conference records.

References

2002 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament Wikipedia