The 2020–21 America East Conference men's basketball season began with practices in October 2020, followed by the start of the 2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in November 2020. Conference play began in December and concluded with the 2021 America East men's basketball tournament. The America East expanded from 9 teams to 10 with the arrival of NJIT on July 1, 2020.

Preseason The America East announced its preseason honors and polls on November 11, 2020.

Preseason Poll RankTeamPoints1Vermont80 (8)2UMBC72 (2)3New Hampshire664Albany515Stony Brook446Hartford437UMass Lowell388NJIT28T9Binghamton14T9 Maine14(first place votes in parentheses)

Preseason All-Conference Team Award Recipients All-Conference Team Zach Cooks (NJIT) Nick Guadarrama (New Hampshire) Cam Healy (Albany) Obadiah Noel (UMass Lowell) Stef Smith (Vermont)

Regular season

Conference matrix This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play. Each team is scheduled to play all other conference teams twice.

  AlbanyBinghamtonHartfordMaineNew HampshireNJITStony BrookUMass LowellUMBCVermontvs. Albany – 0–0 0–0 0–0 1–1 0–2 1–1 1–1 2–0 1–1vs. Binghamton 0–0 – 2–0 0–0 1–1 0–2 2–0 2–0 1–1 2–0vs. Hartford 0–0 0–2 – 0–2 2–0 1–1 1–1 1–1 1–1 0–0vs. Maine 0–0 0–0 2–0 – 1–1 1–1 0–0 0–0 0–0 2–0vs. New Hampshire 1–1 1–1 0–2 1–1 – 0–0 0–2 1–2 2–0 0–0vs. NJIT 2–0 2–0 1–1 1–1 0–0 – 1–1 1–1 1–1 1–1vs. Stony Brook 1–1 0–2 1–1 0–0 2–0 1–1 – 0–2 2–0 2–0vs. UMass Lowell 1–1 0–2 1–1 0–0 2–1 1–1 2–0 – 0–0 1–1vs. UMBC 0–2 1–1 1–1 0–0 0–2 1–1 0–2 0–0 – 1–1vs. Vermont 1–1 0–2 0–0 0–2 0–0 1–1 0–2 1–1 1–1 –Total 6–6 4–10 8–6 2–6 9–6 6–10 7–9 7–8 10–4 10–4

Postseason

America East tournament The 2021 America East men's basketball tournament took place following the end of the conference regular season.

NCAA tournament

Seed Region School First Four 1st Round 2nd Round Sweet 16 Elite Eight Final Four Championship 16 South Hartford N/A defeated by (1) Baylor

National Invitation tournament

Seed Bracket School 1st Round 2nd Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship

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