2017 America East women's basketball tournament

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2017 America East Women's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 201617
Teams8
Quarterfinals site Cross Insurance Arena
Portland, ME
Semifinals siteCross Insurance Arena
Portland, ME
Finals site SEFCU Arena
Albany, NY
Champions Albany (6th title)
Winning coach Joanna Bernabei-McNamee (1st title)
Television ESPNU/ESPN3
  2016
2018  
2016–17 America East Conference women's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
New Hampshire 151 .938266  .813
Albany124 .7502112  .636
UMBC 106 .6251516  .484
Maine 97 .5631816  .529
Binghamton 88 .5001317  .433
Hartford 79 .4381714  .548
Vermont 610 .375920  .310
Stony Brook 511 .3131218  .400
UMass Lowell*016 .000326  .103
2017 America East tournament winner
As of March 18, 2017
*ineligible for postseason play due to Div. I transitions
Rankings from AP poll

The 2017 America East women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the America East Conference. It was held March 4 through 10, 2017. The quarterfinals and semifinals were held at Cross Insurance Arena in Portland, ME, with the finals being held at the SEFCU Arena in Albany, NY. Albany won their 6th straight American East tournament title to earn an automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA tournament.

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Seeds

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

SeedSchoolConfOverallTiebreaker
#1New Hampshire15–125–4
#2Albany12–418–11
#3UMBC10–615–14
#4Maine9–716–15
#5Binghamton8–813–16
#6Hartford7–916–13
#7Vermont6–109–19
#8Stony Brook5–1112–17

Schedule

All tournament games are nationally televised on an ESPN network:

SessionGameTime*Matchup#TelevisionAttendance
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 4
1112:00 PM#1 New Hampshire 58 vs. #8 Stony Brook 49ESPN3941
22:30 PM#4 Maine 57 vs. #5 Binghamton 40
236:00 PM#2 Albany 65 vs. #7 Vermont 45
48:30 PM#3 UMBC 40 vs. #6 Hartford 74
Semifinals – Sunday, March 5
352:00 PM#1 New Hampshire 52 vs. #4 Maine 61ESPN31,847
64:30 PM#2 Albany 67 vs. # 6 Hartford 65
Championship Game – Friday, March 10
474:30 PM#4 Maine at #2 AlbanyESPNU
*Game Times in EST. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket and Results

Quarterfinals
Saturday, March 4, 2017
ESPN3
Semifinals
Sunday, March 5, 2017
ESPN3
Championship game
Friday, March 10, 2017
ESPNU
         
3 UMBC 40
6 Hartford 74
6 Hartford 65
2 Albany67
2 Albany65
7 Vermont 45
2 Albany66
4 Maine 50
1 New Hampshire58
8 Stony Brook 49
1 New Hampshire 52
4 Maine61
4 Maine57
5 Binghamton 40

All times listed are Eastern

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