1983 TAAC Men's Basketball Tournament

1983 TAAC Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Teams 8
Site Barton Coliseum
Little Rock, AR
Champions Georgia Southern (1st title)
Winning coach Frank Kerns (1st title)
MVP Donald Wilson (Arkansas–Little Rock)
TAAC Men's Basketball Tournaments
«1982  1984»

Template:1982–83 TAAC men's basketball standings

The 1983 Trans America Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament (now known as the Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament) was held March 10–12, 1983 at Barton Coliseum in Little Rock, Arkansas.[1]

Georgia Southern upset top-seeded Arkansas–Little Rock in the championship game, 68–67, to win their first TAAC/Atlantic Sun men's basketball tournament. The Eagles, in turn, received an automatic bid to the 1983 NCAA Tournament, their first Division I tournament appearance.

Northeast Louisiana departed the TAAC for the Southland Conference prior to the season and were replaced with Nicholls State.

Bracket

  Quarterfinals
Thursday, March 10
Semifinals
Friday, March 11
Championship
Saturday, March 12
                           
  1  Arkansas–Little Rock 74  
8  Hardin–Simmons 57  
  1  Arkansas–Little Rock 88  
    4  Centenary 83  
5  Mercer 95
  4  Centenary 96  
    1  Arkansas–Little Rock 67
  3  Georgia Southern 68
  3  Georgia Southern 58  
6  Samford 57  
3  Georgia Southern 58
    2  Houston Baptist 55  
7  Northwestern State 65
  2  Houston Baptist 80  

References

  1. "1982-83 Atlantic Sun Conference Season Summary". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2016. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
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