2018 America East men's basketball tournament

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2018 America East men's basketball tournament
Classification Division I
Season 201718
Teams8
SiteCampus sites
Champions UMBC (2nd title)
Winning coach Ryan Odom (1st title)
MVP Jairus Lyles (UMBC)
Attendance17,062
Television ESPN3
ESPN2
  2017
2019  
2017–18 America East Conference men's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Vermont 151 .938278  .771
UMBC124 .7502511  .694
Hartford 115 .6881914  .576
Albany 106 .6252210  .688
Stony Brook 79 .4381319  .406
New Hampshire 610 .3751021  .323
UMass Lowell 610 .3751218  .400
Maine 313 .188626  .188
Binghamton 214 .1251120  .355
2018 America East tournament winner

The 2018 America East men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the America East Conference, which was held on March 3, 6, and 10, 2018. All tournament games were played on home arenas of the higher-seeded school. UMBC defeated regular-season champion Vermont in the championship game to win the tournament and receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. UMBC went on to defeat Virginia to become the first 16th-seeded team to beat the No. 1 seed in one of the biggest upsets in NCAA Tournament history. [1]

Contents

Seeds

The top eight teams in the conference standings qualified for the tournament. UMass Lowell was eligible for the tournament for the first time following their four-year transition to Division I. The teams were seeded by record in conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Binghamton was the only team to not qualify.

SeedSchoolAEC RecordTiebreaker
1 Vermont 15–1
2 UMBC 12–4
3 Hartford 11–5
4 Albany 10–6
5 Stony Brook 7–9
6 New Hampshire 6–101–1 vs. Albany
7 UMass Lowell 6–100–2 vs. Albany
8 Maine 3–13
DNQ Binghamton 2-14

Schedule

GameTimeMatchupScoreTelevisionAttendance
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 3
11:00 pmNo. 7 UMass Lowell at No. 2 UMBC77–89ESPN31,518
24:00 pmNo. 6 New Hampshire at No. 3 Hartford60–711,727
37:00 pmNo. 8 Maine at No. 1 Vermont60–753,266
47:00 pmNo. 5 Stony Brook at No. 4 Albany69–601,785
Semifinals – Tuesday, March 6
57:00 pmNo. 5 Stony Brook at No. 1 Vermont51–70ESPN33,266
67:30 pmNo. 3 Hartford at No. 2 UMBC60–752,234
Championship – Saturday, March 10
711:00 amNo. 2 UMBC at No. 1 Vermont65–62ESPN23,266
Game times in ET. Rankings denote tournament seeding. All games hosted by higher-seeded team. [2]

Bracket and results

[3] Teams are reseeded after each round with highest remaining seeds receiving home court advantage.

Quarterfinals
Saturday, March 3, 2018
ESPN3
Semifinals
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
ESPN3
Championship
Saturday, March 10, 2018
ESPN2
         
1 Vermont75
8 Maine 60
1 Vermont70
5 Stony Brook 51
4 Albany 60
5 Stony Brook69
1 Vermont 62
(Pairings are reseeded after the first round)
2 UMBC65
2 UMBC89
7 UMass Lowell 77
2 UMBC75
3 Hartford 60
3 Hartford71
6 New Hampshire 60

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