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The Big Eight Conference was an NCAA athletic conference that existed from 1907 to 1996, when it and the Southwest Conference disbanded to create the Big 12 Conference. The post-season conference tournament was instituted in 1977 and from that time the winner won the conference's automatic NCAA tournament bid. From 1977 until 1985, the ...
Starting during the 1976-77 season, the conference held a post-season tournament in order to determine the conference bid to the NCAA tournament. All Big Eight men's basketball post-season tournaments were held at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, MO. However, from the 1976-77 to 1984-85 season, quarterfinal rounds were played on the home courts of ...
The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football.It was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MVIAA) [2] by its charter member schools: the University of Kansas, University of Missouri, [2] University of Nebraska, and Washington University in ...
The 1988 Big Eight men's basketball tournament was held March 10–12 at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri. [1] Top-seeded Oklahoma defeated #2 seed Kansas State in the championship game, 88–83, to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 1988 NCAA tournament.
The 1991 Big Eight Conference men's basketball tournament was held March 8–10 at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri. [1] Fourth-seeded Missouri defeated #3 seed Nebraska in the championship game, 90–82. The Tigers were ineligible to play in the 1991 NCAA tournament. Kansas, Oklahoma State, and Nebraska received at-large bids.
The 1982 Big Eight men's basketball tournament was held March 2–6 at a combination of on-campus gymnasiums and Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri. [2]Top-seeded Missouri defeated Oklahoma in the championship game, 68–63, to win their second Big Eight men's basketball tournament.
Per the NCAA, an upset occurs "when the losing team in an NCAA tournament game was seeded at least five seed lines better than the winning team." [8] The 2024 tournament saw a total of 9 upsets, with seven in the first round, one in the Sweet Sixteen and one in the Elite Eight.
The 1996 Big Eight Conference men's basketball tournament was held March 8–10 at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri. [2]Second-seeded Iowa State defeated #1 seed Kansas in the championship game, 56–55, to capture their first Big Eight men's basketball tournament and earn the conference's automatic bid to the 1996 NCAA tournament.