The 1998–99 Winthrop Eagles men's basketball team represented Winthrop University during the 1998–99 college basketball season. This was head coach

Gregg Marshall Michael Gregg Marshall (born February 27, 1963) is an American college basketball coach whose most recent position was head coach at Wichita State University. Marshall has coached his teams to appearances in the NCAA Division I men's basketball ...

's first season at Winthrop. The Eagles competed in the

Big South Conference The Big South Conference is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I. Originally a non-football conference, the Big South began sponsoring football in 2002 as part of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Th ...

and played their home games at

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. They finished the season 21–8, 9–1 in Big South play to finish first in the conference regular season standings. They won the

1999 Big South Conference men's basketball tournament The 1999 Big South Conference men's basketball tournament took place February 25–27, 1999, at the Asheville Civic Center in Asheville, North Carolina. For the first time in their school history, the Winthrop Eagles won the tournament, led by he ...

to receive the conference's automatic bid to the

1999 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament The 1999 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 11, 1999, and ended with the championsh ...

the first appearance in program history. Playing as No. 16 seed in the South region, the Eagles lost to No. 1 seed

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in the opening round.

Roster

Source

Schedule and results

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References

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