2005 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2005 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 1–5, 2005 at campus sites. The tournament was won by the Winthrop Eagles, their first of what would become four consecutive titles, led by head coach Gregg Marshall. They defeated the #7 Charleston Southern Buccaneers in the championship game 68–46.[1]
| 2005 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 2004–05 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Site | Campus sites |
| Finals site | Winthrop Coliseum Rock Hill, SC |
| Champions | Winthrop Eagles (6th title) |
| Winning coach | Gregg Marshall (5th title) |
| MVP | Torrell Martin (Winthrop) |
| Attendance | 16,212 |
| 2004–05 Big South Conference men's basketball standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winthrop † | 15 | – | 1 | .938 | 27 | – | 6 | .818 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Liberty | 11 | – | 5 | .688 | 13 | – | 15 | .464 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UNC Asheville | 8 | – | 8 | .500 | 11 | – | 17 | .393 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birmingham–Southern | 7 | – | 9 | .438 | 16 | – | 14 | .533 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Charleston Southern | 7 | – | 9 | .438 | 13 | – | 17 | .433 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radford | 7 | – | 9 | .438 | 12 | – | 16 | .429 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| High Point | 7 | – | 9 | .438 | 13 | – | 18 | .419 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coastal Carolina | 7 | – | 9 | .438 | 10 | – | 19 | .345 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| VMI | 3 | – | 13 | .188 | 9 | – | 18 | .333 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 2005 Big South Tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Format
The top eight of the conference's nine teams were eligible for the tournament, seeded by conference winning percentage. All games were hosted at campus sites, with home-field advantage going to the higher seed. This gave the #1 seed Winthrop home-court advantage throughout the tournament.
Bracket
| Quarterfinals March 1 | Semifinals March 3 | Finals March 5 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Winthrop | 74 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Coastal Carolina | 62 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Winthrop | 78 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Birmingham–Southern | 64 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Birmingham–Southern | 69 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Radford | 40 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Winthrop | 68 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Charleston Southern | 46 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | UNC Asheville | 93 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | High Point | 98 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | High Point | 55 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Charleston Southern | 58 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Liberty | 60 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Charleston Southern | 66 | ||||||||||||
* Asterisk indicates overtime game
All-Tournament Team
- Torrell Martin, Winthrop
- James Shuler, Winthrop
- Kurtis Rice, Charleston Southern
- Terrell Brown, Charleston Southern
- Jakob Sigurdarson, Birmingham–Southern
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