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1951 Southern Conference men's basketball tournament
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1951 Southern Conference Men's 8 Reynolds Coliseum Raleigh, NC North Carolina State 6th Everett Case 5th
The 1951 Southern Conference men's basketball tournament took place from March 6–8, 1951 at the Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, North Carolina. The North Carolina State Wolfpack, led by head coach Everett Case, won their sixth Southern Conference title and received the automatic berth to the 1951 NCAA tournament.Southern Conference tournament Results. p. 14. https://web.archive.org/web/20181003093117/http://www.soconsports.com/fls/4000/socon/files/bktny/all_time_mbk_tny_results.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=4000 October 3, 2018 Retrieved August 27, 2014.
Format
The top eight finishers of the conference's seventeen members were eligible for the tournament. Teams were seeded based on conference winning percentage. The tournament used a preset bracket consisting of three rounds.
Bracket
QuarterfinalsMarch 6 SemifinalsMarch 7 FinalsMarch 8 1 #8 NC State 83 7 South Carolina 53 3 Clemson 48 8 Maryland 50 5 Duke 64 6 Virginia Tech 61 2 West Virginia 67 4 William & Mary 88 1 #8 NC State 54 8 Maryland 45 4 William & Mary 69 5 Duke 71 1 #8 NC State 67 5 Duke 63
* Overtime game
See also
List of Southern Conference men's basketball champions
References
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