2017 MAAC Men's Basketball Tournament

2017 MAAC Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2016–17
Teams 11
Site Times Union Center
Albany, New York
Television ESPN, ESPN3
MAAC Men's Basketball Tournaments
«2016  2018»
2016–17 MAAC men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Monmouth 2 – 0   1.000     6 – 2   .750
Siena 1 – 0   1.000     3 – 5   .375
Fairfield 1 – 1   .500     5 – 2   .714
Iona 1 – 1   .500     4 – 3   .571
Saint Peter's 1 – 1   .500     4 – 3   .571
Marist 1 – 1   .500     4 – 5   .444
Canisius 1 – 1   .500     3 – 5   .375
Quinnipiac 1 – 1   .500     2 – 5   .286
Niagara 1 – 1   .500     2 – 6   .250
Rider 0 – 1   .000     3 – 3   .500
Manhattan 0 – 2   .000     2 – 6   .250
† 2017 MAAC Tournament winner
As of December 5, 2016; 

The 2017 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament will be held from March 2–6 at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York. The winner will received an automatic trip to the 2017 NCAA Tournament.

Seeds

All 11 teams in the conference participated in the Tournament. The top five teams received byes to the Quarterfinals.

Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

Seed School Conference Tiebreaker
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Schedule

Session Game Time* Matchup# Television Attendance
First Round – Thursday, March 2
1 1 5:00 PM #8 vs #9 ESPN3  
2 7:00 PM #7 vs #10
3 9:00 PM #6 vs #11
Quarterfinals – Friday, March 3
2 4 7:00 PM #1 vs Winner of game 1 ESPN3  
5 9:30 PM #2 vs. Winner of game 2
Quarterfinals – Friday, March 4
3 6 7:00 PM #3 vs Winner of game 3 ESPN3  
7 9:30 PM #4 vs. #5
Semifinals – Saturday, March 5
4 8 4:30 PM Winner of game 4 vs Winner of game 5 ESPN3  
9 7:00 PM Winner of game 6 vs Winner of game 7
Championship – Sunday, March 6
5 10 9:00 PM Winner of game 6 vs Winner of game 7 ESPN/ESPN2  
*Game times in ET. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

[1]

  First round
Thursday, March 2
ESPN3		 Quarterfinals
Friday, March 3
Saturday, March 4
ESPN3		 Semifinals
Sunday, March 5
ESPN3		 Championship
Monday, March 6
ESPN/ESPN2
                                     
        
  1       
          
8     
9       
        
        
        
        
  4     
    5       
      
        
      
      
        
        
  2     
          
7     
10       
      
        
        
        
  3     
          
6     
11       

See also

References

  1. ↑ "2017 MAAC Basketball Championship Brackets" (PDF). maacsports.com. Retrieved November 3, 2016.

External links

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