2019 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
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The 2019 Southern Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the
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for the 2018–19 season. All tournament games were played at the U.S. Cellular Center in
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, from March 8 through 11, 2019. 20th ranked Wofford defeated UNC Greensboro 70–58 in the championship game to win the tournament, and received the conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA tournament. Wofford's perfect season in the SoCon, (perfect regular season, and winning the conference tournament) was the first since the
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led Davidson Wildcats accomplished the feat in the 2007–08 season.


Seeds

All ten teams in the Southern Conference were eligible to compete in the conference tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The top six teams received first-round byes.


Schedule and results


Bracket


See also

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2019 Southern Conference women's basketball tournament The 2019 Southern Conference women's basketball tournament was held between March 7 and 10 in Asheville, North Carolina, at the U.S. Cellular Center. Mercer defeated Furman 66–63 to earn their second consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament. ...


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Southern Conference men's basketball tournament 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 ...
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