The 1994 Midwestern Collegiate Conference men's basketball tournament (now known as the Horizon League men's basketball tournament) was held March 6–8 at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.[1]
| 1994 Midwestern Collegiate Conference men's basketball tournament | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 1993–94 |
| Teams | 6 |
| Site | Hinkle Fieldhouse Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Champions | Detroit (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Perry Watson (1st title) |
| MVP | Andy Elkins (Evansville) |
| Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Xavier | 8 | – | 2 | .800 | 22 | – | 8 | .733 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Evansville | 6 | – | 4 | .600 | 21 | – | 11 | .656 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Butler | 6 | – | 4 | .600 | 16 | – | 13 | .552 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Detroit Mercy † | 5 | – | 5 | .500 | 16 | – | 13 | .552 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| La Salle | 4 | – | 6 | .400 | 11 | – | 16 | .407 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loyola (IL) | 1 | – | 9 | .100 | 8 | – | 19 | .296 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 1994 MCC tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Detroit defeated Evansville in the championship game, 72–63, to win their first MCC/Horizon League men's basketball tournament title. Evansville was denied a third straight tournament title.
The Titans, however, did not receive a bid to the 1994 NCAA tournament, because with Dayton and Duquesne leaving the league before the season, they did not have enough members that had continuous membership in the conference for the preceding five years.[2] They regained their automatic bid the following year,[3] when seven new members joined the league.
Format
editAll six conference members participated in the tournament and were seeded based on regular season conference records.
Bracket
edit| Quarterfinals Sunday, March 6 | Semifinals Monday, March 7 | Championship Tuesday, March 8 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Xavier | 75 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Detroit | 79 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Detroit | 87 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | La Salle | 70 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Detroit | 70 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Evansville | 65 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Butler | 78 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Loyola-Chicago | 67 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Butler | 66 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Evansville | 68 | ||||||||||||
References
edit- ^ "1993-94 Midwestern Collegiate Conference Season Summary". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
- ^ "MCC LOSES AUTOMATIC NCAA BID". Chicago Tribune. December 11, 1992. Retrieved February 14, 2023.
- ^ "SUU SETTLES INTO A CONFERENCE". Deseret News. August 14, 1996. Retrieved February 14, 2023.