2003 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2003 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 4–8, 2003 at campus sites. The tournament was won by the UNC Asheville Bulldogs, their first tournament championship, as well as first under head coach Eddie Biedenbach.[1]
2003 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament | |
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Classification | Division I |
Season | 2002–03 |
Teams | 8 |
Site | Campus sites |
Finals site | Vines Center Lynchburg, VA |
Champions | UNC Asheville (1st title) |
Winning coach | Eddie Biedenbach (1st title) |
MVP | Andre Smith (UNC Asheville) |
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Winthrop | 11 | – | 3 | .786 | 20 | – | 10 | .667 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Charleston Southern | 8 | – | 6 | .571 | 14 | – | 14 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Liberty | 8 | – | 6 | .571 | 14 | – | 15 | .483 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elon | 8 | – | 6 | .571 | 12 | – | 15 | .444 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UNC Asheville † | 7 | – | 7 | .500 | 15 | – | 17 | .469 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Radford | 6 | – | 8 | .429 | 10 | – | 20 | .333 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coastal Carolina | 5 | – | 9 | .357 | 13 | – | 15 | .464 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
High Point | 3 | – | 11 | .214 | 7 | – | 20 | .259 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† 2003 Big South Tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll |
Format
All eight teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference winning percentage. For the quarterfinals, all games were hosted at campus sites, with home-field advantage going to the higher seed, while the semifinals and finals were played at the Vines Center in Lynchburg, Virginia, the home of Liberty University. This was the last year for Elon as a member of the Big South.
Bracket
Quarterfinals March 4 | Semifinals March 7 | Finals March 8 | ||||||||||||
1 | Winthrop | 80 | ||||||||||||
8 | High Point | 64 | ||||||||||||
1 | Winthrop | 73 | ||||||||||||
5 | UNC Asheville | 80 | ||||||||||||
4 | Elon | 66 | ||||||||||||
5 | UNC Asheville | 68 | ||||||||||||
5 | UNC Asheville | 85 | ||||||||||||
7 | Radford | 71 | ||||||||||||
3 | Liberty | 63 | ||||||||||||
6 | Coastal Carolina | 61 | ||||||||||||
3 | Liberty | 52 | ||||||||||||
7 | Radford | 55 | ||||||||||||
2 | Charleston Southern | 62 | ||||||||||||
7 | Radford | 65 | ||||||||||||
* Asterisk indicates overtime game
All-Tournament Team
- Andre Smith, UNC Asheville
- Alex Kragel, UNC Asheville
- Ryan McCullough, UNC Asheville
- Ben McGonagil, UNC Asheville
- Raymond Arrington, Radford
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