The 2017 America East women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the America East Conference. It was held March 4 through 10, 2017. The quarterfinals and semifinals were held at Cross Insurance Arena in Portland, ME, with the finals being held at the SEFCU Arena in Albany, NY. Albany won their 6th straight American East tournament title to earn an automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA tournament.
Seeds Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
SeedSchoolConf OverallTiebreaker#1New Hampshire 15–1 25–4#2Albany 12–4 18–11#3UMBC 10–6 15–14#4 Maine 9–7 16–15#5 Binghamton 8–8 13–16#6 Hartford 7–9 16–13#7 Vermont 6–10 9–19#8 Stony Brook 5–11 12–17
Schedule All tournament games are nationally televised on an ESPN network:
SessionGameTime*Matchup#TelevisionAttendance Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 4 1 1 12:00 PM #1 New Hampshire 58 vs. #8 Stony Brook 49 ESPN3 941 2 2:30 PM #4 Maine 57 vs. #5 Binghamton 40 2 3 6:00 PM #2 Albany 65 vs. #7 Vermont 45 4 8:30 PM #3 UMBC 40 vs. #6 Hartford 74 Semifinals – Sunday, March 5 3 5 2:00 PM #1 New Hampshire 52 vs. #4 Maine 61 ESPN3 1,847 6 4:30 PM #2 Albany 67 vs. # 6 Hartford 65 Championship Game – Friday, March 10 4 7 4:30 PM #4 Maine at #2 Albany ESPNU *Game Times in EST. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.
Bracket and Results
All times listed are Eastern
External links 2017 America East Women's Basketball Championship
See also 2017 America East men's basketball tournament
References