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1979–80 Alcorn State Braves basketball team

American college basketball season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ117040091 ↗
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The 1979–80 Alcorn State Braves basketball team represented Alcorn State University during the 1979–80 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Braves, led by head coach Davey Whitney, played their home games at the Davey Whitney Complex and were members of the Southwestern Athletic Conference. They finished the season 28–2, 8–0 in SWAC. They won the SWAC tournament to receive an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament as No. 8 seed in the Midwest region. The Braves defeated No. 9 seed South Alabama, 70–62, and then played No. 1 seed LSU tough before falling, 98–88.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Alcorn, State and Braves can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “1979–80 Alcorn State Braves basketball team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.