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2002 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2002 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament was played from March 1-4, 2002 at the Savvis Center in St. Louis, Missouri at the conclusion of the 2001–2002 regular season. The Creighton won their 7th MVC tournament title to earn an automatic bid to the 2002 NCAA tournament. Tournament Bracket See also * Missouri Valley Conference The Missouri Valley Conference (also called MVC or simply "The Valley") is the third-oldest collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference in the United States. The conference's members are primarily located in the Midwestern United ... References 2001–02 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball season Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament {{Missouri-sport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savvis Center
The Enterprise Center is an 18,096-seat arena located in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Its primary tenant is the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League, but it is also used for other functions, such as NCAA basketball, NCAA hockey, concerts, professional wrestling and more. In a typical year, the facility hosts about 175 events. Industry trade publication Pollstar has previously ranked Enterprise Center among the top ten arenas worldwide in tickets sold to non-team events, but the facility has since fallen into the upper sixties, as of 2017. The arena opened in 1994 as the Kiel Center. It was known as the Savvis Center from 2000 to 2006, and Scottrade Center from 2006 to 2018. On May 21, 2018, the St. Louis Blues and representatives of Enterprise Holdings, based in St. Louis, announced that the naming rights had been acquired by Enterprise and that the facility's name, since July 1, 2018, adopted its current name. History The site was home to Charles H. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001–02 Creighton Bluejays Men's Basketball Team
The 2001–02 Creighton Bluejays men's basketball team represented Creighton University during the 2001–02 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bluejays, led by head coach Dana Altman Dana Dean Altman (born June 16, 1958) is an American college basketball coach who is the head coach of the Oregon Ducks men's basketball, Oregon Ducks men's team. Previously he was head coach at Creighton Bluejays men's basketball, Creighton, Ka ..., played their home games at the Omaha Civic Auditorium. The Jays finished with a 23-9 record, and tied for the Missouri Valley Conference regular season championship with Southern Illinois. Creighton won the conference tournament to earn a bid to the 2002 NCAA tournament. The team featured Missouri Valley Player of the Year Kyle Korver. Roster Schedule , - !colspan=9, Regular season , - !colspan=9, Missouri Valley Conference tournament , - !colspan=9, 2002 NCAA tournament References { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dana Altman
Dana Dean Altman (born June 16, 1958) is an American college basketball coach who is the head coach of the Oregon Ducks men's team. Previously he was head coach at Creighton, Kansas State and Marshall. Altman has won conference coach of the year awards at each school he has coached, and has led his teams to 15 appearances in the NCAA tournament. College education Dana Altman began playing college basketball at Fairbury Junior College (now Southeast Community College) in Fairbury, Nebraska. He earned an associate degree in business administration there in 1978. He then received his undergraduate degree in the same field at Eastern New Mexico University in 1980. Coaching career Marshall In his first NCAA Division I head coaching position, Altman became the head men's basketball coach at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia in 1989. Although he only spent one season as the coach of the Thundering Herd, Altman led the Herd to a 15–13 record and to runners-up i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyle Korver
Kyle Elliot Korver (born March 17, 1981) is an American former professional basketball player who currently serves as the director of player affairs and development for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Creighton Bluejays. Korver was drafted in the second round of the 2003 NBA draft by the New Jersey Nets. He was immediately traded to the Philadelphia 76ers. After four and a half seasons in Philadelphia, he was traded to the Utah Jazz. During his first stint with the Jazz, in 2009–10, Korver shot 53.6 percent from three-point range, which set an NBA single-season three-point field goal accuracy record. In 2010, he joined the Chicago Bulls. In 2012, he was traded to the Atlanta Hawks, where in 2015 he was named an NBA All-Star. In 2017, he was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers, where he was a member of back-to-back Finals teams. In 2018, he was traded back to the Jazz. In 2019, he signed with the Milwaukee Bucks. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The State Farm Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament, commonly called Arch Madness, is an annual basketball tournament which features the men's basketball teams of each of the Missouri Valley Conference member universities. The tournament, held in St. Louis since 1991, determines which MVC team receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. Arch Madness celebrated its 30th Anniversary in 2020. As of 2021, the tournament is the second longest running tournament (to the Big East men's basketball tournament) to be continuously held in one city. Although technically the BIG EAST did not conclude their 2020 tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Valley has indicated it will not attempt to claim the longest running title due to the circumstances surrounding the pandemic. Tournament champions by year Team notes: West Texas State is now known as West Texas A&M (effective 1990); Missouri State was known as Southwest Missouri State unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2002 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 65 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 12, 2002, and ended with the championship game on April 1 in Atlanta at the Georgia Dome. A total of 64 games were played. This was the first year that the tournament used the so-called "pod" system, in which the eight first- and second-round sites are distributed around the four regionals. Teams were assigned to first round spots in order to minimize travel for as many teams as possible. The top seeds at each site were: *Sacramento: Oregon (M2), USC (S4) *Albuquerque: Arizona (W3), Ohio State (W4) *Dallas: Oklahoma (W2), Mississippi State (M3) * St. Louis: Kansas (M1), Kentucky (E4) *Chicago: Georgia (E3), Illinois (M4) *Pittsburgh: Cincinnati (W1), Pittsburgh (S3) *Washington, D.C.: Maryland (E1), Connecticut (E2) * Greenville: Duke (S1), Alabama (S2) The Final Four co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001–02 Southern Illinois Salukis Men's Basketball Team
The 2001–02 Southern Illinois Salukis men's basketball team represented Southern Illinois University Carbondale during the 2001–02 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Salukis were led by fourth-year head coach Bruce Weber and played their home games at the SIU Arena in Carbondale, Illinois as members of the Missouri Valley Conference. They finished the season 28–8, 14–4 in MVC play to finish tied for first place. They lost in the championship game of the MVC tournament to Creighton, but still received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as No. 11 seed in the East region. The Salukis upset Texas Tech and Georgia to reach the Sweet Sixteen, but fell to Connecticut in the regional semifinal round. Roster Schedule and results , - !colspan=12 style=, Non-conference regular season , - !colspan=12 style=, , - !colspan=12 style=, , - !colspan=12 style=, Rankings References {{DEFAULTSORT:Southern Il ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001–02 Illinois State Redbirds Men's Basketball Team
The 2001–02 Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball team represented Illinois State University during the 2001–02 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Redbirds, led by third year head coach Tom Richardson, played their home games at Redbird Arena and competed as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference. They finished the season 17–14, 12–6 in conference play to finish in third place. They were the number three seed for the Missouri Valley Conference tournament. They were victorious over Drake University in their quarterfinal game but were defeated by Creighton University in their semifinal game. Roster Schedule , - !colspan=9 style=, Regular Season , - !colspan=9 style=, 2002 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament, State FarmMissouri Valley Conference tournament References {{DEFAULTSORT:2001-02 Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball team Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Reference
Sports Reference, LLC, is an American company which operates several sports-related websites, including Sports-Reference.com, Baseball-Reference.com for baseball, Basketball-Reference.com for basketball, Hockey-Reference.com for ice hockey, Pro-Football-Reference.com for American football, and FBref.com for association football (soccer). They also operate a subscription based service for statistics, called Stathead. Between 2008 and 2020, Sports Reference also provided pages for Olympic Games and its competitors. Description The site also includes sections on college football, college basketball and the Olympics. The sites attempt a comprehensive approach to sports data. For example, Baseball-Reference contains more than 100,000 box scores and Pro-Football-Reference contains data on every scoring play in the National Football League since . The company, which is based in the Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was founded as Sports Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missouri Valley Conference
The Missouri Valley Conference (also called MVC or simply "The Valley") is the third-oldest collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference in the United States. The conference's members are primarily located in the Midwestern United States, midwest. History The MVC was established in 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association or MVIAA, 12 years after the Big Ten, the only Division I conference that is older. It is the third oldest college athletic conference in the United States, after the Big Ten Conference and the NCAA Division III Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA). The MVIAA split in 1928, with most of the larger schools forming a conference that retained the MVIAA name; this conference evolved into the Big Eight Conference. The smaller MVIAA schools (Drake, Grinnell and Washington University in St. Louis), plus Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, which joined the Big Eight in 1957), were joined by Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
