2010 Conference USA men's basketball tournament

2010 Conference USA men's basketball tournament
Tournament logo
ClassificationDivision I
Season2009–10
Teams12
SiteBOK Center
Tulsa, Oklahoma
ChampionsHouston (1st title)
Winning coachTom Penders (1st title)
MVPKelvin Lewis (Houston)
TelevisionCBS College Sports
CBS
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2009–10 Conference USA men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
UTEP 15 1   .938 26 7   .788
Memphis 13 3   .813 24 10   .706
UAB 11 5   .688 25 9   .735
Marshall 11 5   .688 24 10   .706
Tulsa 10 6   .625 23 12   .657
Southern Miss 8 8   .500 20 13   .606
Houston 7 9   .438 19 16   .543
SMU 7 9   .438 14 17   .452
East Carolina 4 12   .250 10 21   .323
Tulane 3 13   .188 8 22   .267
Rice 1 15   .063 8 23   .258
UCF* 0 10   .000 0 17   .000
2010 CUSA Tournament winner
As of March 20, 2010
Rankings from AP Poll
*UCF vacated its wins from the 2010–11 season after it was discovered that there was an ineligible player on the team.


The 2010 Conference USA men's basketball tournament took place March 10–13, 2010, at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The tournament was won by #7 seed Houston who received an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. All Quarterfinal and semifinal games were broadcast on CBS College Sports and the championship game was broadcast on CBS. Houston's Kelvin Lewis was declared the tournament's MVP.[1] Houston's Aubrey Coleman, Southern Mississippi's Gary Flowers, and UTEP's Randy Culpepper and Arnett Moultrie joined Lewis on the all-tournament team.[2]

Bracket

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First round
March 10
Second round
March 11
Semifinals
March 12
Championship Game
March 13
            
1 UTEP (#25) 76
9 UCF 54
8 SMU 53
9 UCF 69
1 UTEP (#25) 75
5 Tulsa 61
4 Marshall 64
5 Tulsa 80
5 Tulsa 73
12 Rice 62
1 UTEP (#25) 73
7 Houston 81
2 Memphis 65
7 Houston 66
7 Houston 93
10 East Carolina 80
6 Southern Miss 66
7 Houston 74
3 UAB 44
6 Southern Miss 58
6 Southern Miss 57
11 Tulane 47

Asterisk denotes game ended in overtime.
Rankings from the AP poll.

References

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