2022 Northeast Conference women's basketball tournament explained

Year:2022
Conference:Northeast Conference
Division:I
Gender:Women's
Teams:9
Arena:Campus sites
Television:NEC Front Row, ESPNU,

The 2022 Northeast Conference women's basketball tournament was the postseason basketball tournament for the Northeast Conference for the 2021–22 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The tournament took place March 5, 7, 10, and 13, 2022 and all tournament games were played on home arenas of the higher-seeded school. The tournament winner received an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Seeds

All nine of the eligible ten teams in the conference qualified for the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

The tiebreakers used by the NEC are 1) head-to-head records of teams with identical records, 2) comparison of records against individual teams in the conference starting with the top-ranked team(s) and working down and 3) NCAA NET Rankings available on day following the conclusion of Northeast Conference regular-season play.

SeedSchoolConf.Tiebreaker
1Fairleigh Dickinson15-3
2St. Francis Brooklyn13-5
3Mount St. Mary's11-7
4Wagner10-8
5LIU9-9
6St. Francis (PA)8-10
7Bryant6-122-0 vs. Sacred Heart
8Sacred Heart6-120-2 vs. Bryant
9Central Connecticut5-13

Schedule

SessionGame[2] Time*MatchupScoreTelevision
Opening Round – Saturday, March 5
117:00 pmNo. 9 Central Connecticut at No. 8 Sacred Heart58-62NEC Front Row
Quarterfinals – Monday, March 7
227:00 pmNo. 8 Sacred Heart at No. 1 Farleigh Dickinson58-66NEC Front Row
37:00 pmNo. 5 LIU at No. 4 Wagner55-66
347:00 pmNo. 7 Bryant at No. 2 St. Francis Brooklyn65-53
57:00 pmNo. 6 St. Francis (PA) at No. 3 Mount St. Mary's53-69
Semifinals – Thursday, March 10
467:00 pmNo. 7 Bryant at No. 1 Farleigh Dickinson44-38NEC Front Row
77:00 pmNo. 4 Wagner at No. 3 Mount St. Mary's50-62
Championship – Sunday, March 13
5812:00 pmNo. 7 Bryant at No. 3 Mount St. Mary'sESPNU
  • Game times in ET. Rankings denote tournament seed

Bracket

* denotes overtime period.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Northeast Conference - Merrimack College Accepts Invitation to Join Northeast Conference. 2018-09-10. northeastconference.org. en.
  2. Web site: 2022 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Championship - Northeast Conference. 2022-02-23. northeastconference.org. en.