The University of Rhode Island won their first conference tournament after Lamar Odom of Rhode Island made a 3-point 'buzzer beater' to beat Temple.
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Future NBA player Mark Karcher of Temple was among those also named to the All-Championship Team.
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Freddie Barnes of Penn State was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.
Future NBA players Rick Brunson (Temple) and Marcus Camby (Massachusetts) were among those also named to the All-Championship Team.
Future NBA players Marcus Camby (Massachusetts), Marc Jackson (Temple), and Tyson Wheeler (Rhode Island) were among those also named to the All-Championship Team.
Future NBA player Tyson Wheeler of Rhode Island was among those also named to the All-Championship Team.
Dave Gavitt Trophy (Most Outstanding Player): Scoonie Penn, Boston College
Dave Gavitt Trophy (Most Outstanding Player): Troy Bell, Boston College
Caron Butler, the tournament MVP, gave Connecticut the lead for good at 66–64 on a turnaround jumper with 1:59 left in the second overtime, and Pittsburgh fell to the Huskies in two overtimes, 74–65.
Brian Cook earned Big Ten Player of the Year honors and the Illini won the Big Ten Tournament championship for the first time.
Hakim Warrick of Syracuse was given the Dave Gavitt Trophy, awarded to the tournament's most outstanding player.
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Dave Gavitt Trophy (Most Outstanding Player): Hakim Warrick, Syracuse
McNamara quickly made a three-point shot after that and Josh Wright made four clutch free throws in the final minute to secure the historic championship.
It was the Hoyas first conference tournament title since 1989 when Alonzo Mourning and Charles Smith led the way.
However, tournament officials were told by the NCAA tournament selection committee (which included SEC commissioner Michael Slive) that it had to finish the tournament in order to preserve the league's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
Beginning this season, the Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament changed formats so that first round games would be played on the home court of the higher-seeded team, then the tournament would move to Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.
The rest of the All-Tournament Team was rounded out by his teammate Brandon Wood; Pre-season Big Ten Player of the Year Jared Sullinger and teammate Deshaun Thomas, of Ohio State; and Andre Hollins of Minnesota.
Ray McCallum, Jr. of Detroit was named the tournament MVP.
Induction for the Hall of Honor on March 16, 2013 were: Jason Gardner (Arizona), Dennis Hamilton (Arizona State), Shareef Abdur-Rahim (California), Cliff Meely (Colorado), Chuck Rask (Oregon), Charlie Sitton (Oregon State), Ron Tomsic (Stanford), Lucius Allen (UCLA), Forrest Twogood (USC), Keith Van Horn (Utah), Nate Robinson (Washington) and Jim Keen (Washington State).
The 2014 Colonial Athletic Association Men's Basketball Tournament will be held March 7–10 at the Baltimore Arena in Baltimore, MD.
The Men's Basketball Tournament at the 1951 Pan American Games was held in the Luna Park Arena from February 28 to March 8, 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The Men's Basketball Tournament at the 1967 Pan American Games was held from July 24 to August 2, 1967 in Winnipeg, Canada.
The Men's Basketball Tournament at the 1987 Pan American Games was held from August 9 to August 23, 1987 at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, United States.
In 2011, Connecticut, led by Kemba Walker, became the first and only team in the Big East Tournament to ever win five games in five consecutive days to win the championship.
Led by six seniors, Northridge would upset UCLA at Pauley Pavilion, finish atop the Big Sky standings, and win the Big Sky Tournament at home to reach the NCAA Tournament.
They qualified for the Big East tournament for the first time under Gonzalez as the 11 seed against the 6 seed Marquette Golden Eagles.
Clemente led Kansas State to the elite 8 round of the 2010 NCAA men's basketball tournament before losing to the Butler Bulldogs.
Romana, who was taking up BS Tourism in University of Santo Tomas (UST) College of Education, was the courtside reporter on games involving the UST Growling Tigers on the 2002 season of ABS-CBN's coverage of the UAAP men's basketball tournament.
ECAC North Men's Basketball Tournament, the post-season men's basketball tournament held annually by the ECAC North Conference from 1980 through 1988, prior to it being renamed the America East Conference
He was married to three time AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament winning coach and Basketball Hall of Famer Cathy Rush.
The Tigers defeated #5 Florida in Mizzou Arena and won three of their final four games heading into the SEC Tournament.
In the 2011 Big East Tournament (during his junior year), Walker hit the game winning shot as time expired to beat #3 overall Pittsburgh and advance UConn to the semi-finals.
He is perhaps best remembered for hitting the winning shots in back-to-back games in the 1985 WAC Tournament.
Sessoms and teammate Odell Hodge, who was a two-time CAA Player of the Year himself, guided Old Dominion to three straight regular season conference championships (1993–95) as well as two CAA Men's Basketball Tournament championships (1992 and 1995).
Predrag was a first-team All-Western Athletic Conference pick in his junior and senior seasons, the MVP of the 2002 WAC tournament, and an honorable mention All-American selection by the Associated Press.
Sung Jung-A (born 25 December 1965 in Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do) is a South Korean former basketball player who won the silver medal in the women's basketball tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
The programs both experienced their greatest national prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when both schools were led by young up-and-coming coaches who would eventually win more than 700 games (Don Haskins at UTEP, Lou Henson at NMSU) and appeared in the NCAA Tournament's Final Four within four years of each other.
After Chuatico split his free-throws and Ateneo retaining possession, the Blue Eagles dribbled the time until a driving Eric Reyes was fouled by Jerry Codiñera with three seconds left.
Late in the game, L.A. Tenorio missed both free-throws, but drew an offensive foul from Mike Cortez to give Ateneo the possession with 39.3 seconds left.
Jerwin Gaco and JV Casio padded La Salle's lead to 14 points to close the third quarter.
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Jerwin Gaco broke the FEU run, but Miranda and Mark Isip each split their free-throws to bring back the lead to FEU with 2:21 left.
The UAAP Season 71 men's basketball tournament is the 2008-09 season of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) Basketball Championship, with University of the Philippines, Diliman as the season host, to coincide with the centennial celebrations of the University of the Philippines System.
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Newly crowned World Boxing Council lightweight and super featherweight champion Manny Pacquiao and Washington Wizards player Gilbert Arenas attended the July 6 games featuring host UP against NU and the Ateneo-La Salle game.
The pep band travels to the Southern Conference Men's and Women's Basketball Tournament, and to NCAA Basketball Tournaments with the Mocs and Lady Mocs.