The 1991 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 7 to March 10, 1991. 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 1991 NCAA Tournament

1991 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

The 1991 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 14, 1991, and ended with the championship game on April 1 in Indianapolis, Indiana...

. It is a single-elimination tournament

Single-elimination tournament

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 with four rounds. Syracuse finished with the best best regular season conference record and was awarded the #1 seed.

Seton Hall

Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball

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 defeated Georgetown

Georgetown Hoyas

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 in the championship game 74–62, to claim its first Big East Tournament championship.

Bracket

Awards

Dave Gavitt Trophy (Most Valuable Player): Oliver Taylor, Seton Hall

All Tournament Team

• Anthony Avent
  Anthony Avent
  Anthony Avent is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the Atlanta Hawks in the 1st round of the 1991 NBA Draft. Avent played for the Milwaukee Bucks, Orlando Magic, Vancouver Grizzlies, Utah Jazz and Los Angeles Clippers in six NBA seasons...
  
  , Seton Hall
• Marc Dowdell, Villanova
• 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
• Eric Murdock
  Eric Murdock
  Eric Lloyd Murdock is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the Utah Jazz in the 1st round of the 1991 NBA Draft....
  
  , Providence
• Dikembe Mutombo
  Dikembe Mutombo
  Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo , commonly referred to as Dikembe Mutombo, is a retired Congolese American professional basketball player who last played for the Houston Rockets of the NBA...
  
  , Georgetown
• Oliver Taylor, Seton Hall