The 1987 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 5 to March 8, 1987. 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 1987 NCAA Tournament

1987 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

The 1987 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 12, 1987, and ended with the championship game on March 30 in New Orleans, Louisiana...

. It is a single-elimination tournament

Single-elimination tournament

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 with four rounds. Georgetown had the best regular season conference record and received the #1 seed.

Georgetown defeated Syracuse

1986-87 Syracuse Orange men's basketball team

The 1986-1987 Syracuse Orangemen basketball team represented Syracuse University in NCAA Division I men's competition in the 1986–87 season. The Head coach was Jim Boeheim, serving for his 11th year. The team played home games at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, New York...

 in the championship game 69–59, to claim its fifth Big East Tournament championship.

Bracket

Awards

Most Valuable Player: Reggie Williams

Reggie Williams (basketball)

Reggie Williams is a retired American professional basketball player. His nickname during his playing days was "Silk."-High school and college career:...

, Georgetown

All Tournament Team

• Billy Donovan
  Billy Donovan
  William John "Billy" Donovan, Jr. is an American college basketball coach and a former college and professional basketball player. Donovan is the current head coach of the Florida Gators men's basketball team of the University of Florida...
  
  , Providence
• Sherman Douglas
  Sherman Douglas
  Sherman Douglas is a retired American professional basketball player from Syracuse University who played for the Miami Heat, Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks, New Jersey Nets and the Los Angeles Clippers from 1989 to 2001...
  
  , Syracuse
• Jerome Lane
  Jerome Lane
  Jerome Lane is a retired American professional basketball player. Lane attended Akron Saint Vincent-Saint Mary High School. He played collegiately at the University of Pittsburgh, where he led the Big East Conference in rebounding during the 1986-87 and the 1987-88 regular seasons. He led the...
  
  , Pittsburgh
• Rony Seikaly
  Rony Seikaly
  Ronald Fred "Rony" Seikaly is a retired Lebanese-born American professional basketball player.-Early life:Seikaly was born in Beirut, Lebanon. At the age of 9, Rony moved from Beirut where he'd been attending elementary school at the Athenee de Beirut to Greece, where he spent the rest of his youth...
  
  , Syracuse
• Reggie Williams
  Reggie Williams (basketball)
  Reggie Williams is a retired American professional basketball player. His nickname during his playing days was "Silk."-High school and college career:...
  
  , Georgetown