2011 America East men's basketball tournament

2011 America East men's basketball tournament
2011 America East men's basketball tournament
	2011 America East tournament logo
Classification	Division I
Season	2010–11
First round site	Chase Arena at Reich Family Pavilion; West Hartford, CT
Quarterfinals site	Chase Arena at Reich Family Pavilion; West Hartford, CT
Semifinals site	Chase Arena at Reich Family Pavilion; West Hartford, CT
Finals site	Agganis Arena; Boston, MA
Champions	Boston University (6th title)
Winning coach	Patrick Chambers (1st title)
MVP	John Holland (Boston University)
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The 2011 America East men's basketball tournament was held from March 3–6, 2011 at the Chase Arena at Reich Family Pavilion in West Hartford, Connecticut. The tournament final was held on March 12 at Agganis Arena. Boston University, the highest remaining seed, defeated Stony Brook by a score of 56–54 to win its sixth America East men's basketball title. Boston U also earned an automatic bid into the 2011 NCAA tournament, where it lost in the first round to number one seed Kansas.

2010–11 America East men's basketball standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Vermont	13	–	3	.813	23	–	9	.719
Boston University†	12	–	4	.750	21	–	14	.600
Maine	9	–	7	.563	15	–	15	.500
Albany	9	–	7	.563	16	–	16	.500
Stony Brook	8	–	8	.500	15	–	17	.469
Hartford	7	–	9	.438	11	–	20	.355
New Hampshire	6	–	10	.375	12	–	18	.400
Binghamton	4	–	12	.250	8	–	23	.258
UMBC	4	–	12	.250	5	–	25	.167

† 2011 America East tournament winner As of March 18, 2011 Rankings from AP Poll

Bracket and Results edit

First round Thursday, March 3			Quarterfinals Saturday, March 5			Semifinals Sunday, March 6			Championship Game Saturday, March 12

			1	Vermont	57

			9	Binghamton	46
8	UMBC	65

9	Binghamton	91
						1	Vermont	47

						5	Stony Brook	69



			4	Albany	61

			5	Stony Brook	67



									5	Stony Brook	54

									2	Boston University	56



			2	Boston University	69

			7	New Hampshire	60



						2	Boston University	55

						6	Hartford	49



			3	Maine	63

			6	Hartford	66

Binghamton vs UMBC: Binghamton played an impressive opening round game against UMBC in which the team made 17 three-pointers, breaking the record for the most three's in the America East tournament.^[1] Binghamton took the lead early on in the game and kept a point deferential of at least 12 points for most of the game, they went on to win by 91–65 score with a 51% FG percentage, 53% from the arc. Greer Wright led the game with 31 points, while Laurence Jolicoeur led UMBC with 11.