1989 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

1989 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 1988–89
Teams 10
Site Long Beach Arena
Long Beach, CA
Champions UNLV (5th title)
Winning coach Jerry Tarkanian (5th title)
MVP Stacey Augmon (UNLV)

The 1989 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 8–11 at the Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, California.[1] This was the first tournament after the Big West Conference renamed itself from the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (PCAA) in July 1988.

Top-seeded UNLV defeated New Mexico State in the final, 68–62, and captured their fifth PCAA/Big West championship. This was the Runnin' Rebels' fifth title in seven seasons.

The Rebels, in turn, received an automatic bid to the 1989 NCAA Tournament, where they would advance to the Elite Eight.

Format

There were no changes to the tournament format from 1988. All ten conference members participated in the field, with teams seeded in the bracket based on regular season conference records.

The top six seeds were given a bye into the quarterfinal round while the four lowest-seeded teams were placed into an initial preliminary round.

Bracket

  First Round
Wednesday, March 8		 Quarterfinals
Thursday, March 9		 Semifinals
Friday, March 10		 Championship
Saturday, March 11
                                     
       
  1 UNLV 102  
    8 UC Irvine 82  
9 Pacific 62
8 UC Irvine 68  
  1 UNLV 99  
  5 Cal State Fullerton 83  
       
       
  5 Cal State Fullerton 87
    4 Utah State 86  
     
       
  1 UNLV 68
  2 New Mexico State 62
       
       
  3 UC Santa Barbara 87
    6 Long Beach State 86  
     
       
  3 UC Santa Barbara 63
  2 New Mexico State 67  
7 Fresno State 64  
10 San José State 60  
  7 Fresno State 59
    2 New Mexico State 60  
     

References

  1. ↑ "1988-89 Big West Conference Season Summary". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2018. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
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