1992 Big Sky Conference men's basketball tournament

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1992 Big Sky Conference men's basketball tournament
Classification Division I
Season 1991–92
Teams 6
Site Dahlberg Arena
Missoula, Montana
Champions Montana (2nd title)
Winning coach Blaine Taylor (1st title)
MVP Delvon Anderson (Montana)
← 1991
1993 →
1991–92 Big Sky men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Montana † 14 – 2   .875     27 – 4   .871
Nevada 13 – 3   .813     19 – 10   .655
Weber State 10 – 6   .625     16 – 13   .552
Idaho 10 – 6   .625     18 – 14   .563
Boise State 7 – 9   .438     16 – 13   .552
Idaho State 6 – 10   .375     9 – 21   .300
Montana State 6 – 10   .375     14 – 14   .500
Northern Arizona 3 – 13   .188     7 – 20   .259
Eastern Washington 3 – 13   .188     6 – 21   .222
† Conference tournament winner

The 1992 Big Sky Conference men's basketball tournament was the seventeenth edition, held March 12–14 at Dahlberg Arena at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana.[1]

Top-seeded Montana repeated as conference champions by defeating Nevada in the championship game, 73–68,[2] to win their second Big Sky tournament title. Both of Montana's opponents in the tournament had defeated them earlier in the season.[3]

It was Nevada's thirteenth and final year in the Big Sky; they departed for the Big West in the summer.

Format

Total conference membership remained at nine and the tournament format was unchanged.

The top six teams from the regular season were included and the regular season champion earned the right to host.[4] The top two earned byes into the semifinals while the remaining four played in the quarterfinals; the top seed (host) met the lowest remaining seed in the semifinals.[5]

Bracket

  Quarterfinals
Thursday, March 12		     Semifinals
Friday, March 13		     Championship
Saturday, March 14
                           
        1  Montana 69  
  4  Idaho 75     4  Idaho 52    
  5  Boise State 56         1  Montana 73
      2  Nevada 68
        2  Nevada 92    
  3  Weber State 92     3  Weber State 83  
  6  Idaho State 74  

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NCAA tournament

The Grizzlies (27–3) received an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, and no other Big Sky members were invited to the tournament or the NIT.[9][10] Montana received three votes in the final AP poll,[11] and was seeded fourteenth in the West regional;[3][9] they lost by ten points in the first round to Florida State in Boise.[12] It was the tenth consecutive year in which the Big Sky representative lost in the first round.

See also

References

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