The 2022 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament was the women's postseason basketball tournament for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) for the 2021–22 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The tournament was played March 8–12, 2022, at the Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, for the third year in a row. The tournament winner, the Fairfield Stags, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.
Seeds All 11 teams in the conference participate in the tournament. The top five teams receive byes to the quarterfinals. Teams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker 1Tiebreaker 2Tiebreaker 31Fairfield19–12Quinnipiac14–61–1 vs. Manhattan0–2 vs. Fairfield2–0 vs. Niagara3Manhattan14–61–1 vs. Manhattan0–2 vs. Fairfield0–2 vs. Niagara4Niagara11–95Siena10–106Monmouth9–111–1 vs. Saint Peter's0–2 vs. Fairfield2–0 vs. Quinnipiac7Saint Peter's9–111–1 vs. Monmouth0–2 vs. Fairfield0–2 vs. Quinnipiac8Iona8–129Rider7–1310Marist6–1411Canisius3–17
Schedule SessionGameTime* MatchupScoreTelevision First round – Tuesday, March 8119:30 am(8) Iona vs. (9) Rider74–58ESPN+211:30 am(7) Saint Peter's vs. (10) Marist49–2931:30 pm(6) Monmouth vs. (11) Canisius65–71 Quarterfinals – Wednesday, March 9241:30 pm(1) Fairfield vs. (8) Iona69–56ESPN+53:30 pm(2) Quinnipiac vs. (7) Saint Peter's63–42 Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 103612:00 pm(3) Manhattan vs. (11) Canisius61–49ESPN+72:30 pm(4) Niagara vs. (5) Siena60–59 Semifinals – Friday, March 114811:00 am(1) Fairfield vs. (4) Niagara75–38ESPN+91:30 pm(2) Quinnipiac vs. (3) Manhattan59–72 Championship – Saturday, March 1251011:00 am(1) Fairfield vs. (3) Manhattan73–68ESPNews/ESPN+ *Game times in ET. ()-Rankings denote tournament seeding.
Bracket
* denotes number of overtimes
All-championship team 2022 MAAC women's basketball all-championship team Sydney Lowery, Fairfield Dee Dee Davis, Manhattan Rachel Hakes, Fairfield Courtney Warley, Manhattan Angel Parker, Niagara Cur'Tiera Haywood, Quinnipiac MVP Lou Lopez Sénéchal, Fairfield
See also 2022 MAAC men's basketball tournament
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