1923 Southern Intercollegiate Men's Basketball Tournament
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1923 Southern Intercollegiate Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1923 Southern Intercollegiate men's basketball tournament took place between teams of both the Southern Conference and Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association from February 27–March 3, 1923, at Municipal Auditorium in Atlanta, Georgia. The Mississippi A&M Aggies won their first Southern Conference title. After MSU won the tournament, a celebration broke out in downtown Starkville. A bonfire was built, and when firemen arrived to put it out, students chopped up their water hose and even hit one of the firemen over the head with a bugle. Bracket * ''Overtime game'' Championship All-Southern tournament team See also *List of Southern Conference men's basketball champions This is a list of regular season and tournament champions in men's basketball of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Southern Conference The Southern Conference (SoCon) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, ath ... References {{Southern Conference men's ...
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Municipal Auditorium (Atlanta, Georgia)
Atlanta Municipal Auditorium, originally known as the ''Auditorium and Armory'', was an auditorium in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It was constructed with funds raised by a committee of Atlanta citizens and then sold to the city of Atlanta. The structure was dedicated in a pre-inaugural visit from President William Howard Taft in 1909 during which he was served a possum dinner, and the dining hall in which this event took place was named in his honor. The public dedication of the Auditorium took place with the hosting of the inaugural Atlanta Music Festival in May 1909. The Auditorium and Armory also housed the 179th Field Artillery, who stored munitions there as well as using the space for drills. Over the years various concerts, theater productions, operas, balls, and professional wrestling matches were hosted at the auditorium, as were the 1922 to 1932 Southern Conference men's basketball tournaments. One additional event of note was the ''Gone with the Wind'' Ball, held in conju ...
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