The 1985 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 6 to March 9, 1985. 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 1985 NCAA Tournament

1985 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

The 1985 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. This was the first year the field was expanded to 64 teams, from 53 in the previous year's tournament. It began...

. 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. St. John's

St. John's Red Storm men's basketball

The St. John's Red Storm men's basketball team represents the St. John's University in Queens, New York. The team participates in the Big East Conference. The men’s coach Norm Roberts was fired on March 19, 2010...

 had the best regular season conference record and received the #1 seed.

Georgetown defeated St. John's in the championship game 92–80, to claim its second straight Big East Tournament championship, and fourth overall.

Bracket

Awards

Most Valuable Player: Patrick Ewing

Patrick Ewing

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, Georgetown

All Tournament Team

• Rafael Addison
  Rafael Addison
  Rafael Addison is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA. He is 6'7", 215 lbs....
  
  , Syracuse
• Patrick Ewing, Georgetown
• Michael Jackson
  Michael Jackson (basketball)
  Michael Derek Jackson is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the New York Knicks in the 2nd round of the 1986 NBA Draft...
  
  , Georgetown
• Bill Martin
  Bill Martin (basketball)
  William Martin is a retired American professional basketball player. He was a 6'7" 205 lb forward and played collegiately at Georgetown University from 1981–85....
  
  , Georgetown
• Chris Mullin
  Chris Mullin (basketball)
  Christopher Paul Mullin is a retired American basketball player and former general manager of the NBA's Golden State Warriors. He has also been elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame....
  
  , St. John's
• Ed Pinckney
  Ed Pinckney
  Edward Lewis Pinckney is a retired NBA basketball player.- College career :A 6'9" forward, Pinckney led Villanova University to the NCAA title over the heavily favored Georgetown Hoyas in 1985...
  
  , Villanova