2022 America East men's basketball tournament
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2022 America East men's basketball tournament | |
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Classification | Division I |
Season | 2021–22 |
Teams | 8 |
Site | Campus sites |
Champions | Vermont (8th title) |
Winning coach | John Becker (4th title) |
Television | ESPN+ ESPN2 |
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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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vermont † | 17 | – | 1 | .944 | 28 | – | 6 | .824 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UMBC | 11 | – | 7 | .611 | 18 | – | 14 | .563 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stony Brook* | 10 | – | 8 | .556 | 18 | – | 13 | .581 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
New Hampshire | 10 | – | 8 | .556 | 15 | – | 13 | .536 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hartford | 9 | – | 9 | .500 | 12 | – | 20 | .375 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albany | 9 | – | 9 | .500 | 13 | – | 18 | .419 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Binghamton | 8 | – | 10 | .444 | 12 | – | 17 | .414 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UMass Lowell | 7 | – | 11 | .389 | 15 | – | 16 | .484 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NJIT | 6 | – | 12 | .333 | 11 | – | 18 | .379 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maine | 3 | – | 15 | .167 | 6 | – | 23 | .207 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
*Ineligible for the 2022 AmEast tournament due to changing conferences in 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† 2022 AmEast tournament winner |
Seeds
[edit]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 | Vermont | 17–1 | |
2 | UMBC | 11–7 | |
3 | New Hampshire | 10–8 | |
4 | Hartford | 9–9 | 1–1 vs. Vermont |
5 | Albany | 9–9 | 0–2 vs. Vermont |
6 | Binghamton | 8–10 | |
7 | UMass Lowell | 7–11 | |
8 | NJIT | 6–12 |
Schedule
[edit]Game | Time* | Matchup# | Score | Television | |
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Quarterfinals – Sunday, March 6, 2022 | |||||
1 | 2:00 pm | No. 8 NJIT at No. 1 Vermont | 59–98 | ESPN+ | |
2 | 1:00 pm | No. 7 UMass Lowell at No. 2 UMBC | 85–93OT | ||
3 | 2:00 pm | No. 5 Albany at No. 4 Hartford | 49–61 | ||
4 | 1:00 pm | No. 6 Binghamton at No. 3 New Hampshire | 72–69 | ||
Semifinals – Wednesday, March 9, 2022 | |||||
5 | 7:00 pm | No. 6 Binghamton at No. 1 Vermont | 42–74 | ESPN+ | |
6 | 7:00 pm | No. 4 Hartford at No. 2 UMBC | 60–80 | ||
Championship – Saturday, March 12, 2022 | |||||
7 | 11:00 am | No. 1 Vermont vs. No.2 UMBC | 82–43 | ESPN2 | |
*Game times in EST. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding. |
Bracket
[edit]Quarterfinals Sunday, March 6, 2022 ESPN+ | Semifinals Wednesday March 9, 2022 ESPN+ | Championship Saturday, March 12, 2022 ESPN2 | ||||||||||||
1 | Vermont | 98 | ||||||||||||
8 | NJIT | 59 | ||||||||||||
1 | Vermont | 74 | ||||||||||||
6 | Binghamton | 42 | ||||||||||||
4 | Hartford | 61 | ||||||||||||
5 | Albany | 49 | ||||||||||||
1 | Vermont | 82 | ||||||||||||
(Pairings are reseeded after the first round) | ||||||||||||||
2 | UMBC | 43 | ||||||||||||
3 | New Hampshire | 69 | ||||||||||||
6 | Binghamton | 72 | ||||||||||||
2 | UMBC | 80 | ||||||||||||
4 | Hartford | 60 | ||||||||||||
2 | UMBC | 93* | ||||||||||||
7 | UMass Lowell | 85 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Stony Brook basketball teams banned from America East conference tournament". syracuse. Associated Press. February 3, 2022. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
- ^ "2022 America East Men's Basketball Playoffs - America East Conference". americaeast.com. Retrieved February 22, 2022.