1995 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

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1995 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season1994–95
Teams8
SiteVines Center
Lynchburg, VA
ChampionsCharleston Southern (3rd title)
Winning coach (1st title)
MVPEric Burks (Charleton Southern)
← 1994
1996 →
1994–95 Big South Conference men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
UNC Greensboro 14 – 2   .875 20 – 6   .769
Charleston Southern † 12 – 4   .750 19 – 10   .655
UMBC 10 – 6   .625 13 – 14   .481
Radford 9 – 7   .563 16 – 12   .571
Liberty 7 – 9   .438 12 – 16   .429
UNC Asheville 7 – 9   .438 11 – 16   .407
Towson State 6 – 10   .375 12 – 15   .444
Winthrop 4 – 12   .250 7 – 20   .259
Coastal Carolina 3 – 13   .188 6 – 20   .231
† 1995 Big South Tournament winner
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1995 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 3–5, 1995 at the Vines Center in Lynchburg, Virginia, the home of the Liberty Flames. For the third time in their school history, the Charleston Southern Buccaneers won the tournament, led by head coach .[1]

Before the season, Campbell departed the Big South due to scheduling conflicts. This left the conference with just five teams having played at the Division I level for at least five years, short of the six such members required by the NCAA for a conference to receive an automatic bid into the NCAA tournament.[2] As a result, the Big South did not have an automatic qualifier to the 1995 NCAA Tournament,[3] its first time without an auto-bid since 1990; it regained an auto-bid in 1996 and has maintained an auto-bid in every year since, as of 2021.

Charleston Southern would receive its first NCAA tournament bid in 1997.

Format[]

The top eight finishers of the conference's nine teams participated in the tournament, hosted at the Vines Center. Teams were seeded by conference winning percentage. This was the last year for Towson as a member of the conference.

Bracket[]

Quarterfinals
March 3 		Semifinals
March 4 		Finals
March 5
         
1 UNC Greensboro 75
8 Winthrop 51
1 UNC Greensboro 71
4 Radford 59
4 Radford 63
5 UNC Asheville 47
1 UNC Greensboro 67
2 Charleston Southern 68
3 UMBC 54
6 Liberty 57
2 Charleston Southern 60
6 Liberty 58
2 Charleston Southern 85
7 Towson State 55

* Asterisk indicates overtime game

All-Tournament Team[]

  • Eric Burks, Charleston Southern
  • , Charleston Southern
  • , UNC Greensboro
  • , UNC Greensboro
  • , Radford

[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Big South Men's Basketball History - p. 4
  2. ^ ATKINSON, CHARLIE. "MAYBE BIG SOUTH HASN'T SEEN THE LAST OF CAMPBELL ONE COACH PRIVATELY QUESTIONS MOVE TO NEW LEAGUE". Greensboro News and Record. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  3. ^ Writer, CHARLIE ATKINSON Staff. "BY ALL ACCOUNTS, THIS SHOULD BE UNCG'S YEAR\ CHARLESTON SOUTHERN WILL CHALLENGE". Greensboro News and Record. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
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