The 1989 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 9 to March 12, 1989. 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 1989 NCAA Tournament

1989 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

The 1989 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 16, 1989, and ended with the championship game on April 3 in Seattle, Washington...

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

Georgetown defeated Syracuse

Syracuse Orange men's basketball

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 in the championship game 88–79, to claim its sixth Big East Tournament championship.

Bracket

Awards

Dave Gavitt Trophy (Most Valuable Player): Charles Smith

Charles E. Smith (basketball)

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, Georgetown

All Tournament Team

• Dana Barros
  Dana Barros
  Dana Bruce Barros is a retired American professional basketball player from the NBA. Before the NBA he played at Boston College, finishing as one of the school's all-time leading scorers....
  
  , Boston College
• 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
• John Morton
  John Morton (basketball)
  John Morton is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA. He played collegiately for Seton Hall University from 1985 to 1989...
  
  , Seton Hall
• Alonzo Mourning
  Alonzo Mourning
  Alonzo Harding Mourning, Jr. is a former American professional basketball player, who played most of his 15-year NBA career for the Miami Heat....
  
  , Georgetown
• Ramón Ramos
  Ramon Ramos
  Ramon Ramos Manso is a retired Puerto Rican basketball player, both on the National Superior Basketball and National Basketball Association level...
  
  , Seton Hall
• Charles Smith, Georgetown