2022 America East men's basketball tournament

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2022 America East men's basketball tournament
Classification Division I
Season 202122
Teams8
SiteCampus sites
Champions Vermont (8th title)
Winning coach John Becker (4th title)
Television ESPN+
ESPN2
  2021
2023  

The 2022 America East Men's Basketball Conference tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the America East Conference that began on March 6, 2022 and ended on March 12, 2022. All tournament games were played on the home arenas of the higher-seeded school. The winner, Vermont, received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

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2021–22 America East Conference men's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Vermont171 .944286  .824
UMBC 117 .6111814  .563
Stony Brook*108 .5561813  .581
New Hampshire 108 .5561513  .536
Hartford 99 .5001220  .375
Albany 99 .5001318  .419
Binghamton 810 .4441217  .414
UMass Lowell 711 .3891516  .484
NJIT 612 .3331118  .379
Maine 315 .167623  .207
*Ineligible for the 2022 AmEast Tournament due to changing conferences in 2022.
2022 AmEast Tournament winner

Seeds

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.

SeedSchoolAEC RecordTiebreaker
1 Vermont 17–1
2 UMBC 11–7
3 New Hampshire 10–8
4 Hartford 9–91–1 vs. Vermont
5 Albany 9–90–2 vs. Vermont
6 Binghamton 8–10
7 UMass Lowell 7–11
8 NJIT 6–12

Schedule

GameTime*Matchup#ScoreTelevision
Quarterfinals – Sunday, March 6, 2022
12:00 pmNo. 8 NJIT at No. 1 Vermont59–98 ESPN+
21:00 pmNo. 7 UMass Lowell at No. 2 UMBC85–93OT
32:00 pmNo. 5 Albany at No. 4 Hartford49–61
41:00 pmNo. 6 Binghamton at No. 3 New Hampshire72–69
Semifinals – Wednesday, March 9, 2022
57:00 pmNo. 6 Binghamton at No. 1 Vermont42–74ESPN+
67:00 pmNo. 4 Hartford at No. 2 UMBC60–80
Championship – Saturday, March 12, 2022
711:00 amNo. 1 Vermont vs. No.2 UMBC82–43 ESPN2
*Game times in EST. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

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Bracket

Quarterfinals
Sunday, March 6, 2022
ESPN+
Semifinals
Wednesday March 9, 2022
ESPN+
Championship
Saturday, March 12, 2022
ESPN2
         
1 Vermont98
8 NJIT 59
1 Vermont74
6 Binghamton 42
4 Hartford61
5 Albany 49
1 Vermont82
(Pairings are reseeded after the first round)
2 UMBC 43
3 New Hampshire 69
6 Binghamton72
2 UMBC80
4 Hartford 60
2 UMBC93*
7 UMass Lowell 85

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References

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  2. "2022 America East Men's Basketball Playoffs - America East Conference". americaeast.com. Retrieved 2022-02-22.