Big Eight Conference men's basketball tournament

Big Eight Conference men's basketball tournament (defunct)
Conference basketball championship
SportCollege basketball
ConferenceBig Eight Conference
FormatSingle-elimination tournament
Played1977–1996
Most championshipsMissouri (6)
Host stadiums
Kemper Arena (1977–96)
Host locations
Kansas City, MO (1977–96)

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 quarterfinals were played on the campus sites of the higher seeded teams. The last Big Eight men's basketball tournament ran through the conference's final season in 1996. Missouri won the most Big Eight tournament titles with six. Colorado was the only conference member not to win at least one tournament title during its existence.[1][2]

  1. ^ 1995-96 Big Eight Conference men's basketball media guide, page 55
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-08-11. Retrieved 2014-03-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)