The 1993
Big Sky Conference men's basketball tournament was the eighteenth edition, held at the
Kibbie Dome at the
University of Idaho in
Moscow, Idaho
Moscow ( ) is a city in North Central Idaho, United States. Located along the state border with Washington, it had a population of 25,435 at the 2020 census. The county seat and largest city of Latah County, Moscow is the home of the Universit ...
.
Boise State
Boise State University (BSU) is a public research university in Boise, Idaho. Founded in 1932 by the Episcopal Church, it became an independent junior college in 1934 and has been awarding baccalaureate and master's degrees It became a publ ...
defeated regular season champion and host
Idaho in the final, to clinch their third tournament title The game was televised on
ESPN, with a tipoff after
Fourth-seed was attempting to win a third straight title, but was upset in the It was the first Big Sky tournament in Moscow in
Format
Conference membership returned to eight this season; after thirteen years in the Big Sky,
Nevada departed for the
Big West the previous summer.
The tournament format was unchanged; the top six teams from the regular season were included and the regular season champion earned the right 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
Bracket
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NCAA tournament
The Broncos (21–7) received an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament; no other Big Sky members were invited to the tournament or Boise State was seeded 14th in the West regional and lost by 20 points in the first round to Vanderbilt in This was the eleventh consecutive year in which the Big Sky representative lost in the first round.
See also
*Big Sky Conference women's basketball tournament
The Big Sky Conference women's basketball tournament is held at the end of each women's college basketball regular season. The tournament was first conducted by the Big Sky Conference at the end of the 1988–89 season, the first in which the con ...
References
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