1953 Southern Conference men's basketball tournament

none August 2023 1953 Southern Conference Men's 8 Reynolds Coliseum Raleigh, NC Wake Forest 1st Murray Greason 1st The 1953 Southern Conference men's basketball tournament took place from March 5–7, 1953 at the Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Wake Forest Demon Deacons, led by head coach Murray Greason, won their first Southern Conference title and received the automatic berth to the 1953 NCAA tournament.Southern Conference tournament Results. p. 15. 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 5 SemifinalsMarch 6 FinalsMarch 7 1 #12 NC State 86 8 North Carolina 54 4 West Virginia 91 5 Furman 87 2 Wake Forest 88 7 Richmond 70 3 Maryland 74 6 Duke 65 1 #12 NC State 85 4 West Virginia 80 2 Wake Forest 61 3 Maryland 59 1 #12 NC State 70 2 Wake Forest 71 * Overtime game See also List of Southern Conference men's basketball champions References Tournament Category:Southern Conference men's basketball tournament Southern Conference men's basketball tournament Southern Conference men's basketball tournament Category:College basketball tournaments in Raleigh, North Carolina