The 2010 Conference USA

Conference USA

Conference USA, officially abbreviated C-USA, is a college athletic conference whose member institutions are located within the Southern United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I in all sports...

 Men's Basketball Tournament took place March 10–13, 2010 at the BOK Center

BOK Center

The BOK Center, or Bank of Oklahoma Center, is a 19,100-seat multi-purpose arena and a primary indoor sports and event venue in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. Designed to accommodate arena football, hockey, basketball, concerts, and similar events, the facility was built at a cost of $178 million...

 in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 46th-largest city in the United States. With a population of 391,906 as of the 2010 census, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 937,478 residents in the MSA and 988,454 in the CSA. Tulsa's...

. The tournament was won by #7 seed Houston

2009–10 Houston Cougars men's basketball team

The 2009–10 Houston Cougars men's basketball team represented the University of Houston in the college basketball 2009-10 season. It was their 65th year of season play. The head coach for the Cougars was Tom Penders, who was serving in his 6th year in that position. The team played its home games...

 who receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament

2010 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

The first and second round games were played at the following sites:*March 18 / 20*March 25 / 27*March 26 / 28Each regional winner advanced to the Final Four, held on April 3 and 5 in Indianapolis, Indiana at Lucas Oil Stadium, hosted by the Horizon League and Butler University, as per the NCAA's...

. All Quarterfinal and semifinal games were broadcast on CBS College Sports and the championship game was broadcast on CBS

College Basketball on CBS

College Basketball on CBS presented by State Farm is a presentation of men's NCAA Division I basketball games on CBS...

. Houston's Kelvin Lewis

Kelvin Lewis

Kelvin Michaúd Lewis is a guard for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA Development League. Lewis played collegiately for Houston. He transferred to Houston from Auburn, where he spent his freshman year...

 was declared the tournament's MVP. Houston's Aubrey Coleman

Aubrey Coleman

Aubrey Gene Coleman is an American professional basketball guard with the Angelico Biella of the Serie A. Prior to joining the his current team, Coleman played as a guard for the Austin Toros of the NBA Development League and Aliağa Petkim in the Turkish Basketball League...

, Southern Mississippi's Gary Flowers, and UTEP's Randy Culpepper

Randy Culpepper

Randy Lechard Culpepper is an American basketball player. He played for the University of Texas El Paso Miners. He is in Conference USA's top 15 all-time in career scoring, and in 2009–10 was named the Conference USA Men's Basketball Player of the Year. In Culpepper's first season, he was named...

 and Arnett Moultrie joined Lewis on the all-tournament team.

Bracket

Asterisk denotes game ended in overtime.

Rankings from the AP poll

AP Poll

The Associated Press College Poll refers to weekly rankings of the top 25 NCAA teams in one of three Division I college sports: football, men's basketball and women's basketball. The rankings are compiled by polling sportswriters across the nation...

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