2025 Patriot League women's basketball tournament

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2025 Patriot League women's basketball tournament
Patriot League Women's Basketball Championship 2025.png
Classification Division I
Season 202425
Teams10
SiteCampus sites
Television ESPN+, CBSSN
  2024
2026  
2024–25 Patriot League women's basketball standings
Conf.Overall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Lehigh153 .833276  .818
Army 144 .778247  .774
Colgate 135 .722239  .719
Navy 117 .6111911  .633
Holy Cross 117 .6111912  .613
Bucknell 117 .6111714  .548
Lafayette 612 .3331021  .323
Boston University 513 .2781219  .387
Loyola 315 .167921  .300
American 117 .056129  .033
2025 Patriot League tournament winner
As of March 16, 2025

The 2025 Patriot League Women's Basketball Tournament will be the conference postseason tournament for the Patriot League. The tournament will be held March 8-16, 2025 at campus sites of the higher seeds. The winner will receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. [1]

Contents

Seeds

All ten teams in the conference standings will qualify for the tournament. The teams will be seeded by record in conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

The first tiebreaker is the head-to-head records of the tied teams. If teams remain tied, the tied teams' records against the highest seeded Patriot League team not involved in the tie are compared, provided each of the tied teams played that team at least once. If the tied teams have identical winning percentages against the highest seeded team, the process works its way down the standings. Since ties are resolved sequentially starting with the no. 1 seed, teams seeded above the tied teams are considered separately rather than as a group, even if they have identical records. If the teams remain tied, the NCAA NET rankings available on the day following the conclusion of Patriot League regular-season play are used. In the event tied teams have identical NET rankings, the tied teams' winning percentages against non-Patriot League common opponents are compared. If the tie involves three or more teams, and one or more teams are superior or inferior to the others after any step, but three or more teams remain tied, the multiple-team tiebreaker process continues and does not revert to a new multiple-team tiebreaker. Multiple-team tiebreakers revert to a two-team tiebreaker, when the number of tied teams is reduced to two. [2] In the prior season, multiple-team tiebreakers contunued until they were completely resolved, even if only two teams remained tied.

Once a team is eliminated from a multiple-team tiebreaker, either by demonstrating superiority or inferiority to the remaining tied teams, it is treated as if it had not been involved in the initial tie for the purposes of applying the remaining steps in continuing the tiebreaker procedure, and such team is seeded according to the tiebreaker result.

SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker 1Tiebreaker 2
1Lehigh15–3
2Army14–4
3Colgate13–5
4Navy11–74–0 vs. Holy Cross/Bucknell
5Holy Cross11–72–0 vs. Bucknell
6Bucknell11–70–2 vs. Holy Cross
7Lafayette6–12
8Boston University5–13
9Loyola3–15
10American1–17

Schedule

GameTimeMatchupScoreTelevisionAttendance
First round – Saturday, March 8
14:00 pmNo. 7 Lafayette vs. No. 10 American75–51 ESPN+
22:00 pmNo. 8 Boston University vs. No. 9 Loyola87–53
Quarterfinals – Monday, March 10
36:00 pmNo. 1 Lehigh vs. No. 8 Boston University62–44ESPN+
46:00 pmNo. 2 Army vs. No. 7 Lafayette55–40
56:00 pmNo. 3 Colgate vs. No. 6 Bucknell58–63
66:00 pmNo. 4 Navy vs. No. 5 Holy Cross52–66
Semifinals – Thursday, March 13
76:00 pmNo. 1 Lehigh vs. No. 5 Holy Cross65–44 ESPN+
86:00 pmNo. 2 Army vs. No. 6 Bucknell49–39
Championship – Sunday, March 16
912:00 pmNo. 1 Lehigh vs. No. 2 Army74–62CBSSN
*Game times in ET (UTC−5 for the first round and UTC−4 for the quarterfinals, semifinals, and championship).
Rankings denote tournament seed. All games hosted by higher-seeded team.

Bracket

First round
Saturday, March 8
ESPN+
Quarterfinals
Monday, March 10
ESPN+
Semifinals
Thursday, March 13
ESPN+
Championship
Sunday, March 16
CBSSN
1 Lehigh 62
8 Boston University 75 8 Boston University 44
9 Loyola 51 1 Lehigh 65
5 Holy Cross 49
4 Navy 52
5 Holy Cross 66
1 Lehigh 74
2 Army 62
2 Army 55
7 Lafayette 87 7 Lafayette 40
10 American 53 2 Army 49
6 Bucknell 39
3 Colgate 58
6 Bucknell 63

References

  1. "2025 PenFed Credit Union Patriot League Women's Basketball Championship - Patriot League". patriotleague.org. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
  2. "2024–25 Men's Basketball Standings". Patriot League. Retrieved February 26, 2025.