The 1994 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 10 to March 13, 1994. Its winner received the Big East Conference

Big East Conference

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's automatic bid

Automatic bid

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 to the 1994 NCAA Tournament

1994 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

The 1994 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 17, 1994, and ended with the championship game on April 4 in Charlotte, North Carolina...

. It is a single-elimination tournament

Single-elimination tournament

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 with four rounds. Connecticut

Connecticut Huskies

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 finished with the best best regular season conference and was awarded the #1 seed.

Providence

Providence Friars

The Providence Friars is the name of the athletic teams of Providence College. They compete in the Big East Conference for every sport except for ice hockey, where they compete in Hockey East and in women's volleyball, where they compete in the America East Conference...

 defeated Georgetown

Georgetown Hoyas

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, 74–64, in the championship game to claim its first Big East Tournament championship.

Bracket

Awards

Dave Gavitt Trophy (Most Valuable Player): Michael Smith, Providence

All Tournament Team

• George Butler, Georgetown
• Othella Harrington
  Othella Harrington
  Othella Harrington is a retired American professional basketball player and current coach. After he finished his high school career at Murrah High School, he played in college at Georgetown University where he teamed with NBA superstar Allen Iverson...
  
  , Georgetown
• Donyell Marshall
  Donyell Marshall
  Donyell Lamar Marshall is a retired American professional basketball player, at the small forward and power forward positions. During his extensive NBA career, he played with eight different teams...
  
  , Connecticut
• Rob Phelps, Providence
• 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
• Michael Smith, Providence