The 2018 Colonial Athletic Association men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Colonial Athletic Association for the 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The tournament was held March 3–6, 2018 at the North Charleston Coliseum in North Charleston, South Carolina. The College of Charleston received the CAA's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament with an 83–76 overtime win over Northeastern in the championship game.
Tournament changes On July 11, 2017, it was announced that the tournament, which was previously played on a Friday–Monday format, would move to a Saturday–Tuesday format beginning with the 2018 tournament. It was also announced that the semifinals and championship would be televised on CBS Sports Network through the 2021 tournament.
Seeds All 10 CAA teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. The top six teams received a bye to the quarterfinals.
SeedSchoolConf.Tiebreaker 1Tiebreaker 21 College of Charleston14–42–0 vs Northeastern2 Northeastern14–40–2 vs CofC3Hofstra12–64William & Mary11–75Towson8–106UNC Wilmington7–117Delaware6–124–2 vs Drexel/JMU/Elon8Drexel6–123–3 vs UD/JMU/Elon2–2 vs CofC/Northeastern9James Madison6–123–3 vs UD/Drexel/Elon0–4 vs CofC/Northeastern10Elon6–122–4 vs UD/Drexel/JMU
Schedule SessionGameTime*MatchupScoreTelevision First round – Saturday March 3, 2018114:00 pmNo. 9 James Madison vs No. 8 Drexel62–70CAA.tv26:30 pmNo. 10 Elon vs No. 7 Delaware79–86CAA.tv Quarterfinals – Sunday March 4, 20182312:00 pmNo. 8 Drexel vs No. 1 College of Charleston59–66CAA.tv42:30 pmNo. 5 Towson vs No. 4 William & Mary66–80CAA.tv356:00 pmNo. 7 Delaware vs No. 2 Northeastern50–74CAA.tv68:30 pmNo. 6 UNC Wilmington vs No. 3 Hofstra93–88CAA.tv Semifinals – Monday March 5, 2018476:00 pm No. 4 William and Mary vs No. 1 College of Charleston73–83CBSSN88:30 pm No. 6 UNC Wilmington vs No. 2 Northeastern52–79CBSSN Championship – Tuesday March 6, 2018597:00 pmNo. 2 Northeastern vs No. 1 College of Charleston76–83OTCBSSN *Game times in ET. Rankings denote tournament seed
Bracket
* denotes overtime game
Game summaries
First round
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Championship
Team and tournament leaders
Team leaders Team Points Rebounds Assists StealsBlocksMinutesCollege of Charleston Chealey 70 Brantley 32 2 Tied 9 Riller 7 Brantley 6 Chealey 114Delaware Daly 46 Carter 15 3 tied 5 Daly 4 Carter 2 Daly 78Drexel Isabell 38 Williams 24 Isabell 6 lee 7 Williams 10 Isabell 77Elon Thompson 27 Seibring 9 Swoope 9 2 tied 1 Swoope 1 Swoope 39Hofstra Wright-Foreman 29 Gustys 10 Wright-Foreman 6 3 tied 1 3 tied 1 Pemberton 38James Madison Lewis 15 3 tied 6 Lewis 3 2 tied 2 Banks 2 Lewis 36Northeastern Pusica 65 Gresham Jr. 27 Pusica 17 Gresham Jr. 5 2 tied 3 Pusica 117Towson Martin 18 Gorham 10 Martin 9 2 tied 2 Tunstall 2 Morsell 38UNC Wilmington Talley 47 Cacok 18 Talley 9 Cacok 4 3 tied 1 Taylor II 70William & Mary Knight 47 Knight 19 Cohn 14 Cohn 2 2 tied 2 Cohn 79
See also 2018 CAA women's basketball tournament
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