2016 MEAC men's basketball tournament explained

The 2016 MEAC men's basketball tournament took place March 8–12, 2016 at the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia^[1] The champion received the conference's automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA tournament.

Seeds

The top 12 teams were eligible for the tournament, Florida A&M was ineligible for postseason play due to APR Sanctions.^[2]

Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

Seed	School	Conference	Tiebreaker
1	Hampton	13–3
2		12–4	1–0 vs. South Carolina State
3	South Carolina State	12–4	0–1 vs. Norfolk State
4	Bethune-Cookman	10–6
5	Savannah State	9–7
6	North Carolina A&T	7–9	2–0 vs. North Carolina Central, 1–0 vs. Maryland Eastern Shore
7	North Carolina Central	7–9	1–0 vs. Maryland Eastern Shore, 0–2 vs. North Carolina A&T
8	Maryland Eastern Shore	7–9	0–1 vs. North Carolina A&T, 0–1 vs. North Carolina Central
9	Morgan State	6–10	2–0 vs. Coppin State, 1–0 vs. Howard
10	Howard	6–10	1–1 vs. Coppin State, 0–1 vs. Morgan State
11	Coppin State	6–10	1–1 vs. Howard, 0–2 vs. Morgan State
12	Delaware State	5–11
† – MEAC regular season champions. Overall records are as of the end of the regular season.

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup^#	Score	Television
First round – Monday, March 7
1	1	5:00 pm	5 Savannah State vs. #12 Delaware State	63–58	ESPN3
2	7:00 pm	6 North Carolina A&T vs. #11 Coppin State	91–98^2OT
First round – Tuesday, March 8
2	3	4:00 pm	8 Maryland Eastern Shore vs. #9 Morgan State	58–65	ESPN3
4	6:00 pm	7 North Carolina Central vs. #10 Howard	68–66
Quarterfinals – Wednesday, March 9
4	5	6:00 pm	1 Hampton vs. #9 Morgan State	83–81	ESPN3
6	8:00 pm	2 Norfolk State vs. #7 North Carolina Central	66–47
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 10
5	7	6:00 pm	3 South Carolina State vs. #11 Coppin State	90–80	ESPN3
8	8:00 pm	4 Bethune-Cookman vs. #5 Savannah State	50–57
Semifinals – Friday, March 11
6	9	6:00 pm	1 Hampton vs. #5 Savannah State	89–55	ESPN3
10	8:00 pm	2 Norfolk State vs. #3 South Carolina State	67–65
Championship – Saturday, March 12
7	11	1:00pm	1 Hampton vs. #3 South Carolina State	81–69	ESPN2
Game times in EST. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

* denotes overtime period

Web site: 2016 MEAC Mens Basketball Tournament Bracket. MEACHoops.com. Streamline Technologies. 8 February 2016.
Web site: 2015-16 APR penalties from NCAA. Associated Press. Associated Press. 8 February 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160308201213/http://www.collegebasketball.ap.org/article/2015-16-apr-penalties-ncaa. 8 March 2016. dead.