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Basketball Hall of Fame Belfast Classic - Wikipedia

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Basketball Hall of Fame Belfast Classic
Sport	College basketball
Founded	2017
No. of teams	8
Country	Northern Ireland
Venue(s)	SSE Arena Belfast
Most recent champion(s)	Buffalo Bulls (Goliath) Marist Red Foxes (Samson)
TV partner(s)	CBS Sports Network
Official website	Belfast Basketball Classic.com

The Basketball Hall of Fame Belfast Classic is an eight team college basketball tournament held in November and December of the NCAA Division I men's basketball season, with the inaugural tournament beginning in 2017. It is currently the only college tournament played across the Atlantic, and the first-ever NCAA basketball games played in Europe.^[1]^[2] In its inaugural season, only four teams participated, but it was increased for the 2018–19 season to eight teams. In 2017, the four participants played all their games at the SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with the winners moving on to the championship game, and the losers playing in the consolation game.^[3] Towson was the inaugural champion, defeating Manhattan 56–55, and winning the game on a last second shot by Tigers senior guard Mike Morsell.^[4]

The format was changed in 2018, with the schools competing in two four-team brackets, with campus round games in America leading into two tournament brackets in Belfast named Samson and Goliath, which are named after the iconic Harland and Wolff cranes in the Titanic quarter ship yard of Belfast. The semifinals and championship games of each bracket are played in Northern Ireland, with each bracket winner declared champions of their respective brackets.^[5]

The tournament is sponsored by The Sport Changes Life Foundation, in partnership with the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC).

Brackets

* – Denotes overtime period

2018

Campus Games

	Campus Game 1 November 18, 2018

	Long Island		52

	San Francisco		84

	Campus Game 2 November 20, 2018 ESPN+

	Marist		60

	Stephen F. Austin		64

	Campus Game 3 November 20, 2018

	Long Island		87

	Milwaukee		92*

Campus Game 4 November 21, 2018 ESPN+

	Dartmouth	71

22	Buffalo	110

	Campus Game 5 November 23, 2018 ESPN+

	Albany		70

	Milwaukee		79

Campus Game 6 November 24, 2018 ESPN3

	Marist	49

22	Buffalo	76

	Campus Game 7 November 24, 2018

	Dartmouth		65

	San Francisco		84

Goliath Bracket

Goliath Semifinals November 30			Goliath Championship December 1

	Milwaukee	77

21	Buffalo	96
			21	Buffalo	85

				San Francisco	81
San Francisco		76

Stephen F. Austin		58

Samson Bracket

Samson Semifinals November 29		Samson Championship November 30

Dartmouth	58

Marist	76
		Marist	70

		Long Island	53
Long Island	80

Albany	77

2017

Semifinals December 1, 2017 CBSSN		Championship December 2, 2017 CBSSN

Holy Cross	54

Manhattan	70
		Manhattan	55

		Towson	56
La Salle	60

Towson	67

References

^ Woods, Mark (29 November 2018). "How Belfast landed the biggest college hoops tourney on the other side of the Atlantic". ESPN.com. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
^ Dobbertean, Chris (16 November 2017). "2017's Non-Exempt Bracketed Tournaments". bloggingthebracket.com. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
^ "Inaugural Basketball Hall of Fame Belfast Classic Set to Air on CBS Sports Network". MAACSports.com. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
^ "Tigers Hoist Belfast Classic Trophy After Buzzer Beater!". TowsonTigers.com. 2 December 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
^ "The Sport Changes Life Foundation Announces the return of the 2nd Annual Basketball Hall of Fame Belfast Classic". MAACSports.com. Retrieved 5 April 2019.

External links

Official site of the Basketball Hall of Fame Belfast Classic

NCAA men's college basketball tournaments

Division I

Early season	Acrisure Classic Acrisure Holiday Invitational Acrisure Invitational Arizona Tip-Off Bahamas Championship Battle 4 Atlantis Big 5 Classic Boardwalk Battle Cancún Challenge Cayman Islands Classic Charleston Classic Diamond Head Classic Empire Classic Emerald Coast Classic ESPN Events Invitational Fort Myers Tip-Off Greenbrier Tip-Off Gulf Coast Showcase Hall of Fame Tip-Off Jacksonville Classic Legends Classic Maui Invitational Myrtle Beach Invitational Nassau Championship NIT Season Tip-Off Paradise Jam Phil Knight Invitational Players Era Festival Rady Children's Invitational Sunshine Slam Vegas Showdown
Defunct Early season	All-College Basketball Classic Asheville Championship Belfast Classic Coaches vs. Cancer Classic Continental Tire Main Event Corpus Christi Coastal Classic Crossover Classic DirecTV Classic Great Alaska Shootout Global Sports Classic Jamaica Classic Las Vegas Classic Las Vegas Invitational Northern Classic Puerto Rico Tip-Off Savannah Invitational SoCal Challenge Southland Basketball Tip-Off Vancouver Showcase
Conference postseason	ACC America East The American ASUN Atlantic 10 Big 12 Big East Big Sky Big South Big Ten Big West CAA Conference USA Horizon Ivy League MAAC MEAC Mid-American Missouri Valley Mountain West Northeast Ohio Valley Pac-12 (on hiatus until 2027) Patriot SEC Southern Southland SWAC Sun Belt Summit WAC West Coast
Defunct Conference postseason	American South American West Big Eight East Coast Great Midwest Great West Metro Southwest
Postseason	NCAA Division I Tournament National Invitation Tournament College Basketball Invitational CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament College Basketball Crown (starting in 2025)
Defunct Postseason	The Basketball Classic Vegas 16 National Commissioners Invitational Tournament National Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament

Division II

Conference postseason	CCAA CACC Carolinas East Coast Great American GLIAC GLVC G-MAC Great Northwest Gulf South Lone Star Mountain East Northeast-10 Northern Sun Pacific West Peach Belt PSAC RMAC South Atlantic SIAC Sunshine State
Defunct Conference postseason	Heartland
Postseason	NCAA Division II Tournament

Division III

Conference postseason	Allegheny Mountain American Rivers American Southwest Atlantic East C2C Centennial CUNYAC CCIW CCS Commonwealth Coast Empire 8 Great Northeast HCAC Landmark Liberty Little East MASCAC Michigan Middle Atlantic (MAC Commonwealth and MAC Freedom) Midwest Minnesota NESCAC NEWMAC New Jersey North Atlantic NACC NCAC Northwest Ohio Old Dominion Presidents' SAA SCIAC SLIAC Skyline SCAC SUNYAC United East Upper Midwest USA South Wisconsin
Defunct Conference postseason	ACAA Colonial States NECC
Postseason	NCAA Division III Tournament ECAC Tournaments

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