The 1993 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament

Big East Men's Basketball Tournament

The Big East Men's Basketball Tournament is the conference championship tournament in men's basketball for the Big East Conference. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. Since 1983, the tournament has been held in Madison Square...

took place at Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden

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 in New York City

New York City

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, from March 11 to March 14, 1993. Its winner received the Big East Conference

Big East Conference

The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletics conference consisting of sixteen universities in the eastern half of the United States. The conference's 17 members participate in 24 NCAA sports...

's automatic bid

Automatic bid

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 to the 1993 NCAA Tournament

1993 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

The 1993 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 18, 1993, and ended with the championship game on April 5 in New Orleans, Louisiana...

. It is a single-elimination tournament

Single-elimination tournament

A single-elimination tournament, also called a knockout, cup or sudden death tournament, is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match or bracket is immediately eliminated from winning the championship or first prize in the event...

 with four rounds. Seton Hall finished with the best best regular season conference and was awarded the #1 seed.

In the largest margin of victory in a Big East Tournament championship game, Seton Hall defeated Syracuse, 103–70, to claim its second Big East Tournament championship.

Bracket

Awards

Dave Gavitt Trophy (Most Valuable Player): Terry Dehere

Terry Dehere

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, Seton Hall

All Tournament Team

• Adrian Autry, Syracuse
• David Cain, St. John's
• Terry Dehere, Seton Hall
• Arturas Karnishovas
  Arturas Karnišovas
  Artūras Karnišovas is a retired Lithuanian professional basketball player....
  
  , Seton Hall
• Lawrence Moten
  Lawrence Moten
  Lawrence Edward Moten is a retired American professional basketball player.Moten attended Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, D.C. and the New Hampton School in New Hampton, New Hampshire before playing his college ball at Syracuse University...
  
  , Syracuse
• Dickey Simpkins
  Dickey Simpkins
  LuBara Dixon "Dickey" Simpkins is an American former professional basketball player best known for his tenure with the Chicago Bulls in the late 1990s...
  
  , Providence
• Jerry Walker, Seton Hall