2019 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament


The 2019 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Southern Conference for the 2018–19 season. All tournament games were played at the U.S. Cellular Center in Asheville, North Carolina, from March 8 through 11, 2019.
20th ranked Wofford defeated UNC Greensboro 70–58 in the championship game to win the tournament, and received the conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Tournament. Wofford's perfect season in the SoCon, was the first since the Stephen Curry led Davidson Wildcats accomplished the feat in the 2007–08 season.

Seeds

All ten teams in the Southern Conference were eligible to compete in the conference tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The top six teams received first-round byes.
SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker 1Tiebreaker 2Tiebreaker 3
1Wofford18–0
2UNC Greensboro15–3
3Furman13–51–1 vs ETSU0–2 vs Wofford1–1 vs UNC Greensboro
4East Tennessee State13–51–1 vs Furman0–2 vs Wofford0–2 vs UNC Greensboro
5Chattanooga7–11
6Mercer6–122–0 vs Samford
7Samford6–120–2 vs Mercer
8VMI4–143–1 vs Western Carolina/The Citadel
9Western Carolina4–142–2 vs VMI/The Citadel
10The Citadel4–141–3 vs VMI/Western Carolina

Schedule and results

Bracket