The 1988–89 Southwest Missouri State Bears basketball team represented

Southwest Missouri State University Missouri State University (MSU or MO State), formerly Southwest Missouri State University, is a public university in Springfield, Missouri. Founded in 1905 as the Fourth District Normal School, it is the state's second largest university by enr ...

National Collegiate Athletic Association The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges an ...

(NCAA) Division I men's

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

during the 1988–89 season. Playing in the

Summit League The Summit League, or The Summit, is an NCAA Division I intercollegiate athletic conference with its membership mostly located in the Midwestern United States from Illinois on the East of the Mississippi River to the Dakotas and Nebraska on the W ...

(AMCU-8) and led by head coach

Charlie Spoonhour Charles Graham Spoonhour (June 23, 1939 – February 1, 2012) was an American basketball coach. Spoonhour was born in Mulberry, Kansas, attended high school in Rogers, Arkansas, and received an education degree from the University of the Ozarks. H ...

, the Bears finished the season with a 21–10 overall record and won the AMCU-8 regular season and conference tournament titles. Southwest Missouri State lost to

Seton Hall Seton Hall University (SHU) is a private Catholic research university in South Orange, New Jersey. Founded in 1856 by then-Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named after his aunt, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesa ...

in the opening round of the NCAA tournament.

Roster

Schedule and results

, - !colspan=9, Regular season , - !colspan=9,

1989 AMCU-8 men's basketball tournament The 1989 AMCU-8 men's basketball tournament was held March 6–8, 1989, at the Hammons Student Center at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri. Southwest Missouri State defeated in the title game, 73–67, to win thei ...

, - !colspan=10,

1989 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament The 1989 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 16, 1989, and ended with the championsh ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:1988-89 Missouri State Bears Basketball Team Missouri State Bears basketball seasons

Southwest Missouri State Missouri State University (MSU or MO State), formerly Southwest Missouri State University, is a public university in Springfield, Missouri. Founded in 1905 as the Fourth District Normal School, it is the state's second largest university by enr ...

Missouri State Bears Basketball Team Missouri State Bears Basketball Team