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Basketball Tournament |
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| Classification | Division I | ||
| Teams | 13 | ||
| Site | Madison Square Garden New York City |
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| Champions | Connecticut (2nd title) | ||
| Winning coach | Jim Calhoun (2nd title) | ||
| MVP | Victor Page Georgetown | ||
| Post-Big East tournament(s) |
1996 NIT, 1996 NCAA | ||
| Big East Men's Basketball Tournaments
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The 1996 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Its winner received the Big East Conference's automatic bid to the 1996 NCAA Tournament. It is a single-elimination tournament with four rounds and the three highest seeds received byes in the first round. Connecticut, the Big East regular season winner, received the number one seed in the tournament.
Connecticut defeated Georgetown, 75-74 to claim its second Big East Tournament championship.
| First round | Second round | Semifinals | Championship Game | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Connecticut | 79 | ||||||||||||||||
| 9 | Seton Hall | 58 | ||||||||||||||||
| 8 | West Virginia | 78 | ||||||||||||||||
| 9 | Seton Hall | 80 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Connecticut | 85 | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Syracuse | 67 | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Syracuse | 76 | ||||||||||||||||
| 13 | Notre Dame | 55 | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Syracuse | 69 | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Boston College | 61 | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Boston College | 70 | ||||||||||||||||
| 12 | Pittsburgh | 66 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Connecticut | 75 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Georgetown | 74 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Villanova | 78 | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Providence | 68 | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Providence | 80 | ||||||||||||||||
| 11 | St. John's | 72 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Villanova | 76 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Georgetown | 84 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Georgetown | 92 | ||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Miami | 62 | ||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Miami | 77 | ||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Rutgers | 67 | ||||||||||||||||
Dave Gavitt Trophy (Most Outstanding Player): Victor Page, Georgetown
All-Tournament Team
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