2022 America East women's basketball tournament | |
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Classification | Division I |
Season | 2021–22 |
Teams | 8 |
Site | Campus sites |
Champions | Albany (7th title) |
Winning coach | Colleen Mullen (1st title) |
MVP | Kayla Cooper (Albany) |
Television | ESPN+ ESPN2 |
America East women's basketball tournaments |
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.
2021–22 America East Conference women's basketball standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maine | 15 | – | 3 | .833 | 20 | – | 12 | .625 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stony Brook* | 14 | – | 4 | .778 | 23 | – | 6 | .793 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albany † | 13 | – | 5 | .722 | 23 | – | 10 | .697 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vermont | 13 | – | 5 | .722 | 20 | – | 11 | .645 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NJIT | 9 | – | 8 | .529 | 15 | – | 15 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UMass Lowell | 8 | – | 9 | .471 | 11 | – | 16 | .407 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Binghamton | 5 | – | 13 | .278 | 9 | – | 20 | .310 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
New Hampshire | 4 | – | 12 | .250 | 7 | – | 21 | .250 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hartford | 4 | – | 14 | .222 | 4 | – | 26 | .133 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UMBC | 2 | – | 14 | .125 | 3 | – | 23 | .115 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
*Ineligible for the AmEast Tournament due to a postseason ban imposed by the AmEast. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† 2022 America East tournament winner |
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.
Seed | School | AEC Record | Tiebreaker |
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1 | Maine | 15–3 | |
2 | Albany | 13–5 | 1–1 vs. Vermont; 0–2 vs. Maine; 1–1 vs. Stony Brook |
3 | Vermont | 13–5 | 1–1 vs. Albany; 0–2 vs. Maine; 0–2 vs. Stony Brook |
4 | NJIT | 9–8 | |
5 | UMass Lowell | 8–9 | |
6 | Binghamton | 5–13 | |
7 | New Hampshire | 4–12 | |
8 | Hartford | 4–14 |
Game | Time* | Matchup# | Score | Television | |
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Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 5, 2022 | |||||
1 | 1:00 pm | No. 8 Hartford at No. 1 Maine | 49–63 | ESPN+ | |
2 | 2:00 pm | No. 7 New Hampshire at No. 2 Albany | 44–49 | ||
3 | 4:00 pm | No. 5 UMass Lowell at No. 4 NJIT | 33–47 | ||
4 | 2:30 pm | No. 6 Binghamton at No. 3 Vermont | 63–71 | ||
Semifinals – Tuesday, March 8, 2022 | |||||
5 | 7:00 p.m. | No. 4 NJIT at No. 1 Maine | 48-72 | ESPN+ | |
6 | 7:00 p.m. | No. 3 Vermont at No. 2 Albany | 54-67 | ||
Championship – Friday, March 11, 2022 | |||||
7 | 5:00 pm | No. 1 Maine vs. No. 2 Albany | 47-56 | ESPN2 | |
*Game times in EST. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding. |
Quarterfinals Saturday, March 5, 2022 ESPN+ | Semifinals Tuesday March 8, 2022 ESPN+ | Championship Friday, March 11, 2022 ESPN2 | ||||||||||||
1 | Maine | 63 | ||||||||||||
8 | Hartford | 49 | ||||||||||||
1 | Maine | 72 | ||||||||||||
4 | NJIT | 48 | ||||||||||||
4 | NJIT | 47 | ||||||||||||
5 | UMass Lowell | 33 | ||||||||||||
1 | Maine | 47 | ||||||||||||
(Pairings are reseeded after the first round) | ||||||||||||||
2 | Albany | 56 | ||||||||||||
3 | Vermont | 71 | ||||||||||||
6 | Binghamton | 63 | ||||||||||||
2 | Albany | 67 | ||||||||||||
3 | Vermont | 54 | ||||||||||||
2 | Albany | 49 | ||||||||||||
7 | New Hampshire | 44 |
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