The 2024 America East Women's Basketball Conference tournament will be the postseason women's basketball tournament for the America East Conference. It will be held March 8–March 15, 2024, at campus sites of the higher seeds. The winner will receive the conference's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Tournament.[1] The tournament will be sponsored by Jersey Mike's Subs.[2]
2024 America East women's basketball tournament | |
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Classification | Division I |
Season | 2023–24 |
Teams | 8 |
Site | Campus sites |
Finals site | Memorial Gymnasium (University of Maine) Orono, ME |
Champions | Maine (10th title) |
Winning coach | Amy Vachon (3rd title) |
Television | ESPN+, ESPNU |
America East women's basketball tournaments |
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maine † | 14 | – | 2 | .875 | 25 | – | 10 | .714 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albany | 13 | – | 3 | .813 | 25 | – | 7 | .781 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vermont | 12 | – | 4 | .750 | 25 | – | 12 | .676 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bryant | 8 | – | 8 | .500 | 15 | – | 15 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Binghamton | 8 | – | 8 | .500 | 14 | – | 17 | .452 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UMBC | 6 | – | 10 | .375 | 10 | – | 19 | .345 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NJIT | 4 | – | 12 | .250 | 12 | – | 18 | .400 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UMass Lowell | 4 | – | 12 | .250 | 4 | – | 25 | .138 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
New Hampshire | 3 | – | 13 | .188 | 9 | – | 20 | .310 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† 2024 AmEast tournament winner |
Seeds edit
Eight of the nine America East teams 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.
Seed | School | AEC Record | Tiebreaker |
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1 | Maine | 14–2 | |
2 | Albany | 13–3 | |
3 | Vermont | 12–4 | |
4 | Bryant | 8–8 | 2–0 vs. Binghampton |
5 | Binghamton | 8–8 | 0–2 vs. Bryant |
6 | UMBC | 6–10 | |
7 | NJIT | 4–12 | 1–1 vs. Bryant |
8 | UMass Lowell | 4–12 | 0–2 vs. Bryant |
DNQ | New Hampshire | 3–13 |
Schedule edit
Game | Time* | Matchup# | Score | Television | |
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Quarterfinals – Friday, March 8 | |||||
1 | 5:00 pm | No. 8 UMass Lowell at No. 1 Maine | 43–49 | ESPN+ | |
2 | 7:00 pm | No. 7 NJIT at No. 2 Albany | 42–57 | ||
3 | 6:00 pm | No. 6 UMBC at No. 3 Vermont | 41–54 | ||
4 | 6:00 pm | No. 5 Binghamton at No. 4 Bryant | 56–51 | ||
Semifinals – Monday, March 11 | |||||
5 | 6:00 PM | No. 5 Binghampton at No. 1 Maine | 58–64 | ESPN+ | |
6 | 7:00 PM | No. 3 Vermont at No. 2 Albany | 50–46 | ||
Championship – Friday, March 15 | |||||
7 | 5:00 pm | No. 3 Vermont at No. 1 Maine | 48–64 | ESPNU/ESPN+ | |
*Game times in EST. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding. |
Bracket edit
Quarterfinals Friday, March 8, 2024 ESPN+ | Semifinals Monday, March 11, 2024 ESPN+ | Championship Friday, March 15, 2024 ESPNU/ESPN+ | ||||||||||||
1 | Maine | 49 | ||||||||||||
8 | UMass Lowell | 43 | ||||||||||||
1 | Maine | 64 | ||||||||||||
5 | Binghamton | 58 | ||||||||||||
4 | Bryant | 51 | ||||||||||||
5 | Binghamton | 56 | ||||||||||||
1 | Maine | 64 | ||||||||||||
(Pairings are reseeded after the first round) | ||||||||||||||
3 | Vermont | 48 | ||||||||||||
3 | Vermont | 54 | ||||||||||||
6 | UMBC | 41 | ||||||||||||
2 | Albany | 46 | ||||||||||||
3 | Vermont | 50 | ||||||||||||
2 | Albany | 57 | ||||||||||||
7 | NJIT | 42 |
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "2024 Jersey Mike's America East Women's Basketball Playoffs - America East Conference". americaeast.com. Retrieved January 19, 2024.
- ^ "Jersey Mike's Subs Named Title Sponsor of Men's & Women's Basketball Playoffs". americaeast.com. November 30, 2022. Retrieved January 19, 2024.