2022 America East women's basketball tournament explained

Year:2022
Conference:America East
Division:I
Gender:Women's
Teams:8
Arena:Campus sites
Champions:Albany
Titlecount:7th
Coach:Colleen Mullen
Coachcount:1st
Mvp:Kayla Cooper
Mvpteam:Albany
Television:ESPN+
ESPN2

The 2022 America East Women's Basketball Conference tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the America East Conference that began March 5, 2022 and ended with the final on March 11, 2022. The second-seeded Albany Great Danes defeated the top seed Maine Black Bears in the tournament final to advance to the 2022 NCAA tournament, their seventh tournament appearance. All tournament games were played on the home arenas of the higher-seeded school.

Seeds

Eight of the ten America East teams qualified for the tournament. Stony Brook was not eligible for the tournament due to a postseason ban imposed by the conference.[1] The teams were seeded by record in conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

SeedSchoolAEC RecordTiebreaker
1Maine15–3
2Albany13–51–1 vs. Vermont; 0–2 vs. Maine; 1–1 vs. Stony Brook
3Vermont13–51–1 vs. Albany; 0–2 vs. Maine; 0–2 vs. Stony Brook
4NJIT9–8
5UMass Lowell8–9
6Binghamton5–13
7New Hampshire4–12
8Hartford4–14

Schedule

GameTime*Matchup#ScoreTelevision
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 5, 2022
11:00 pmNo. 8 Hartford at No. 1 Maine49–63ESPN+
22:00 pmNo. 7 New Hampshire at No. 2 Albany44–49
34:00 pmNo. 5 UMass Lowell at No. 4 NJIT33–47
42:30 pmNo. 6 Binghamton at No. 3 Vermont63–71
Semifinals – Tuesday, March 8, 2022
57:00 p.m.No. 4 NJIT at No. 1 Maine48-72ESPN+
67:00 p.m.No. 3 Vermont at No. 2 Albany54-67
Championship – Friday, March 11, 2022
75:00 pmNo. 1 Maine vs. No. 2 Albany47-56ESPN2
  • Game times in EST. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.
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See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Associated Press. 2022-02-03. Stony Brook basketball teams banned from America East conference tournament. 2022-02-22. syracuse. en.
  2. Web site: 2022 America East Women's Basketball Playoffs - America East Conference. 2022-03-07. americaeast.com. en.