2010 Atlantic 10 men's basketball tournament

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2010 Atlantic 10 men's basketball tournament
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Tournament logo
Classification Division I
Season 200910
Teams12
Site Boardwalk Hall
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Champions Temple Owls (9th title)
Winning coach Fran Dunphy (3rd title)
MVP Juan Fernandez (Temple)
Top scorer Kevin Anderson (Richmond)
(54 points)
  2009
2011  
2009–10 Atlantic 10 men's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
No. 12 Temple142 .875296  .829
No. 25 Xavier 142 .875269  .743
No. 24 Richmond 133 .813269  .743
Saint Louis 115 .6882313  .639
Rhode Island 97 .5632610  .722
Charlotte 97 .5631912  .613
Dayton 88 .5002512  .676
St. Bonaventure 79 .4381516  .484
Duquesne 79 .4381616  .500
George Washington 610 .3751615  .516
UMass 511 .3131220  .375
Saint Joseph's 511 .3131120  .355
La Salle 412 .2501218  .400
Fordham 016 .000226  .071
2010 Atlantic 10 Tournament winner
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2010 Atlantic 10 men's basketball tournament was played initially at campus sites for the first round on March 9, 2010, and subsequently at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, from March 12 through March 14, 2010. The Temple Owls won the tournament and thereby received an automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.

Seeding for the tournament was determined by the conference standings at the end of the regular season. The last two teams in the standings did not qualify for the tournament.

Temple's victory was their third consecutive A-10 tournament championship. They became the first team to win three straight since UMass won five consecutive titles from 1992 through 1996. [1]

The championship game was nationally televised on CBS, the first time the league's championship game was broadcast by the network. [2] In years past, ESPN had televised the game.

Bracket

First round
Campus Sites
March 9
Second round
Boardwalk Hall
March 12
Semifinals
Boardwalk Hall
March 13
Championship Game
Boardwalk Hall
March 14
            
1 #17 Temple 69
8 St. Bonaventure 51
8 St. Bonaventure 83
9 Duquesne 71
1 #17 Temple 57
5 Rhode Island 44
4 Saint Louis 47
5 Rhode Island 63
5 Rhode Island 87
12 Saint Joseph's 76
1 Temple 56
3 Richmond 52
3 Richmond 77
11 UMass 72
6 Charlotte 56
11 UMass 59
3 Richmond 89*
2 #24 Xavier 85
2 #24 Xavier 78
7 Dayton 73
7 Dayton 70
10 George Washington 60

Asterisk denotes game ended in overtime.

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References

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  2. "Defending Champion Temple The Top Seed For The 2010 A-10 Men's Basketball Championship". Archived from the original on March 15, 2010. Retrieved March 21, 2010.