| Year: | 2018 |
| Conference: | MAAC |
| Division: | I |
| Gender: | Women's |
| Teams: | 11 |
| Arena: | Times Union Center |
| City: | Albany, NY |
| Champions: | Quinnipiac |
| Titlecount: | 4th |
| Coach: | Tricia Fabbri |
| Coachcount: | 4th |
| Mvp: | Jen Fay |
| Mvpteam: | Quinnipiac |
| Topscorer: | Alana Gilmer – 64 |
| Topscorerteam: | Marist |
| Topscorer2: | Jen Fay – 47 (Quinnipiac) Rebekah Hand – 47 (Marist) |
| Television: | ESPNU/ESPN3 |
The 2018 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament was held March 1–5 at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York. Quinnipiac received an automatic trip to the 2018 Women's NCAA tournament.[1]
Teams are seeded by conference record, with a ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if record against regular season champion is tied, the tie breaker moves on to the regular season second place team, then third place team, etc.[2]
| Seed | School | Conference | Tiebreaker | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quinnipiac | 18–0 | ||
| 2 | Marist | 14–4 | ||
| 3 | Siena | 11–7 | ||
| 4 | Fairfield | 10–8 | 1–1 v. Siena [3] | |
| 5 | Rider | 10–8 | 0–1 v. Siena | |
| 6 | Niagara | 9–9 | 2–0 v. Siena | |
| 7 | Manhattan | 9–9 | 0–2 v. Siena | |
| 8 | Canisius | 8–10 | ||
| 9 | Monmouth | 7–11 | ||
| 10 | Iona | 2–16 | ||
| 11 | St. Peter's | 1–17 |
| Session | Game | Time* | Matchup# | Score | Television | Attendance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First round – Thursday, March 1 | |||||||
| 1 | 1 | 9:30 AM |
| 58–61 | ESPN3 | ||
| 2 | 11:30 AM |
| 55–39 | ||||
| 3 | 1:30 PM |
| 60–48 | ||||
| Quarterfinals – Friday, March 2 | |||||||
| 2 | 4 | 1:00 PM |
| 83–44 | ESPN3 | ||
| 5 | 3:30 PM |
| 84–60 | ||||
| Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 3 | |||||||
| 3 | 6 | 12:00 PM |
| 71–60 | ESPN3 | ||
| 7 | 2:30 PM |
| 64–71 | ||||
| Semifinals – Sunday, March 4 | |||||||
| 4 | 8 | 11:00 AM |
| 82–62 | ESPN3 | 2,208 | |
| 9 | 1:30 PM |
| 67–51 | ||||
| Championship – Monday, March 5 | |||||||
| 5 | 10 | 2:30 PM |
| 67–58 | ESPNU | 2,437 | |
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