The 1983–84 Memphis State Tigers men's basketball team represented
Memphis State University
The University of Memphis (Memphis) is a public university, public research university in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1912, the university has an enrollment of more than 20,000 students.
The university maintains the Herff Col ...
as a member of the
Metro Conference
The Metropolitan Collegiate Athletic Conference, popularly known as the Metro Conference, was an NCAA Division I athletics conference, so named because its six charter members were all in urban metropolitan areas, though its later members di ...
during the
1983–84 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.
The Tigers won Metro Conference regular season and
conference tournament titles to receive an automatic bid to the
1984 NCAA tournament
The 1984 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 53 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 13, 1984, and ended with the champion ...
. As No. 6 seed in the Midwest region, Memphis State beat Oral Roberts and upset No. 3 seed Purdue to reach the Sweet Sixteen for the third season in a row. The Houston Cougars, who would eventually participate in their third consecutive Final Four with their second straight runner-up finish, defeated Memphis State, 78–71. The Tigers finished with a 26–7 record (11–3 Metro), though the NCAA tournament results would later be vacated.
Roster
Schedule and results
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Rankings
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References
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