1980 Midwestern City Conference men's basketball tournament
| 1980 Midwestern City Conference men's basketball tournament | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 1979–80 |
| Teams | 6 |
| Site | Roberts Municipal Stadium Evansville, IN |
| Champions | Oral Roberts (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Ken Hayes (1st title) |
| MVP | Calvin Garrett (Oral Roberts) |
Midwestern City Conference men's basketball tournaments | |
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loyola-Chicago | 5 | – | 0 | 1.000 | 19 | – | 10 | .655 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oral Roberts † | 4 | – | 1 | .800 | 18 | – | 10 | .643 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oklahoma City | 3 | – | 2 | .600 | 13 | – | 15 | .464 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Butler | 2 | – | 3 | .400 | 12 | – | 15 | .444 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Evansville | 1 | – | 4 | .200 | 18 | – | 10 | .643 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Xavier | 0 | – | 5 | .000 | 8 | – | 18 | .308 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1980 Midwestern City Conference men's basketball tournament (now known as the Horizon League men's basketball tournament) was held February 29 to March 2 at Roberts Municipal Stadium in Evansville, Indiana.[1] This was the first edition of the tournament.
Oral Roberts topped Loyola–Chicago in the inaugural championship game, 103–93, to win their first MCC/Horizon League men's basketball tournament.
The Golden Eagles; however, did not receive a bid to the 1980 NCAA tournament.
Format
All six conference members participated in the tournament and were seeded based on their regular-season conference records. The top two teams were given byes into the semifinal round while the remaining four teams were placed into the initial quarterfinal round.
Bracket
| Quarterfinals Friday, February 29 | Semifinals Saturday, March 1 | Championship Sunday, March 2 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Loyola–Chicago | 81 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Evansville | 78 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Evansville | 80 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Butler | 67 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Loyola–Chicago | 93 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Oral Roberts | 103 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Oklahoma City | 102 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Xavier | 93 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Oklahoma City | 100 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Oral Roberts | 101 | ||||||||||||
References
- ^ "1979-80 Midwestern City Conference Season Summary". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2016. Retrieved May 1, 2016.