UNC Charlotte Site of ’89 Sun Belt Tourney

North Carolina Charlotte will host the 1989 Sun Belt Conference men’s basketball tournament at its new 23,000-seat Coliseum, the conference announced Wednesday.

Faculty and athletic directors from the eight-university league voted at their spring meeting here to award the seven-game tournament to the school for the first time since 1980, said league spokesman John Iamarino. The tournament will be held March 4-6.

School representatives awarded the women’s tournament to Western Kentucky in Bowling Green for a six-game tournament March 9-11, he said.

The conference also includes Alabama at Birmingham, Jacksonville, Old Dominion in Norfolk, Va., South Alabama in Mobile, South Florida in Tampa and Virginia Commonwealth in Richmond.