2000 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament

2000 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 1999–00
Teams 13
Site Madison Square Garden
New York City
Champions St. John's (3rd title)
Winning coach Mike Jarvis (1st title)
MVP Bootsy Thornton (St. John's)
Big East Men's Basketball Tournaments
«1999  2001»
1999–2000 Big East men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
#16 Syracuse 13 – 3   .813     26 – 6   .813
#23 Miami 12 – 2   .857     23 – 11   .676
#9 St. John's† 12 – 4   .750     25 – 8   .758
#20 Connecticut 10 – 6   .625     25 – 10   .714
Seton Hall 10 – 6   .625     22 – 10   .688
Villanova 8 – 8   .500     20 – 13   .606
Notre Dame 8 – 8   .500     22 – 15   .595
West Virginia 6 – 10   .375     14 – 14   .500
Georgetown 6 – 10   .375     19 – 15   .559
Rutgers 6 – 10   .375     15 – 16   .484
Pittsburgh 5 – 11   .313     13 – 15   .464
Providence 4 – 12   .250     11 – 19   .367
Boston College 3 – 13   .188     11 – 19   .367
† 2000 Big East Tournament winner
As of April 3, 2000[1]; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2000 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Its winner received the Big East Conference's automatic bid to the 2000 NCAA Tournament. It is a single-elimination tournament with four rounds and the three highest seeds received byes in the first round. All 13 Big East teams were invited to participate. Syracuse finished with the best record in the regular season and was awarded the top seed.

St. John's defeated Connecticut in the final, 80–70 to earn their first Big East Tournament championship since 1986, and their third overall.

Bracket

  First round
March 8, 2000		 Quarterfinals
March 9, 2000		 Semifinals
March 10, 2000		 Championship Game
March 11, 2000
                                     
        
  1  Syracuse 72  
    9  Georgetown 76  
8  West Virginia 67
9  Georgetown 70  
  9  Georgetown 55  
  4  Connecticut 70  
5  Seton Hall 85  
12  Providence 65  
  5  Seton Hall 64
    4  Connecticut 79  
4  Connecticut 70
13  Boston College 55  
  4  Connecticut 70
  3  St. John's 80
        
        
  3  St. John's 75
    6  Villanova 70  
6  Villanova 65
11  Pittsburgh 55  
  3  St. John's 58
  2  Miami 57  
        
        
  2  Miami 61
    7  Notre Dame 58  
7  Notre Dame 74
10  Rutgers 62  

Awards

Dave Gavitt Trophy (Most Outstanding Player): Bootsy Thornton, St. John's

All-Tournament Team

Television

Network Play-by-play announcer Color analyst(s) Sideline reporter(s)
ESPN2 (Rutgers–Notre Dame, opening round; Notre Dame–Miami (FL), quarterfinals)

Local Radio

Seed Teams Flagship station Play-by-play announcer Color analyst(s)
7 Notre Dame WNDV–AM/WNDV-FM (Notre Dame) Jack Lorri Jack Nolan

References

General: "2008-09 Big East Media Guide" (PDF). pp. 136–138. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-04-28. Retrieved 2009-06-05. 

  1. ↑ http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/conferences/big-east/2000.html
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