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2017 MEAC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2017 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament took place March 6–11, 2017 at the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia. The champion, 2016-17 North Carolina Central Eagles men's basketball team, North Carolina Central, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, 2017 NCAA tournament with a 67–59 win over 2016–17 Norfolk State Spartans men's basketball team, Norfolk State in the championship game. Seeds The top 12 teams were eligible for the tournament, 2016–17 Savannah State Tigers basketball team, Savannah State was ineligible for postseason play due to Academic Progress Rate, APR Sanctions. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Schedule Bracket * denotes overtime period References {{2017 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament navbox 2016–17 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference men's basketba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norfolk Scope
Norfolk Scope is a multi-function complex in Norfolk, Virginia, comprising an 11,000-person arena, a 2,500-person theater known as Chrysler Hall, a exhibition hall and a 600-car parking garage. The arena was designed by Italian architect/engineer Pier Luigi Nervi in conjunction with the (now defunct) local firm Williams and Tazewell, which designed the entire complex. Nervi's design for the arena's reinforced concrete dome derived from the PalaLottomatica and the much smaller Palazzetto dello Sport, which were built in the 1950s for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Construction on Scope began in June 1968 at the northern perimeter of Norfolk's downtown and was completed in 1971 at a cost of $35 million. Federal funds covered $23 million of the cost, and when it opened formally on November 12, 1971, the structure was the second-largest public complex in Virginia, behind only the Pentagon. Featuring the world's largest reinforced thinshell concrete dome (though eclipsed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |