The 2025 Patriot League Men's Basketball Tournament was the conference postseason tournament for the Patriot League. The tournament was held March 4–12, 2025 at campus sites of the higher seeds. The winner, American, received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Seeds All ten teams in the conference standings will qualify for the tournament. The teams will be seeded by record in conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
The first tiebreaker is the head-to-head records of the tied teams. If teams remain tied, the tied teams' records against the highest seeded Patriot League team not involved in the tie are compared, provided each of the tied teams played that team at least once. If the tied teams have identical winning percentages against the highest seeded team, the process works its way down the standings. Since ties are resolved sequentially starting with the no. 1 seed, teams seeded above the tied teams are considered separately rather than as a group, even if they have identical records. If the teams remain tied, the NCAA NET rankings available on the day following the conclusion of Patriot League regular-season play are used. In the event tied teams have identical NET rankings, the tied teams' winning percentages against non-Patriot League common opponents are compared. If the tie involves three or more teams, and one or more teams are superior or inferior to the others after any step, but three or more teams remain tied, the multiple-team tiebreaker process continues and does not revert to a new multiple-team tiebreaker. Multiple-team tiebreakers revert to a two-team tiebreaker, when the number of tied teams is reduced to two. In the prior season, multiple-team tiebreakers continued until they were completely resolved, even if only two teams remained tied.
Once a team is eliminated from a multiple-team tiebreaker, either by demonstrating superiority or inferiority to the remaining tied teams, it is treated as if it had not been involved in the initial tie for the purposes of applying the remaining steps in continuing the tiebreaker procedure, and such team is seeded according to the tiebreaker result. This point was relevant in applying the tiebreaker procedure to break the four-way tie for second place in 2024. SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker 1Tiebreaker 21Bucknell13–55–3 vs. Colgate, Boston University, Navy and Army2American13–54–4 vs. Colgate, Boston University, Navy and Army3Colgate10–84–2 vs. Boston University, Navy and Army410–83–3 vs. Colgate, Navy and Army1–1 vs. Bucknell5Navy10–83–3 vs. Colgate, Boston University and Army6Army10–82–4 vs. Colgate, Boston University and Navy 7Lafayette7–118Loyola6–122–0 vs. Lehigh9Lehigh6–120–2 vs. Loyola10Holy Cross5–13
Schedule GameTimeMatchupScoreTelevisionAttendanceFirst round – Tuesday, March 417:00 pmNo. 10 Holy Cross at No. 7 Lafayette68–69ESPN+1,56527:00 pmNo. 9 Lehigh at No. 8 Loyola73–77423Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 637:00 pmNo. 8 Loyola at No. 1 Bucknell72–76ESPN+2,89847:00 pmNo. 7 Lafayette at No. 2 American69–711,87057:00 pmNo. 6 Army at No. 3 Colgate55–841,19367:00 pmNo. 5 Navy at No. 4 Boston University86–78530Semifinals – Sunday, March 9712:00 pmNo. 5 Navy at No. 1 Bucknell83–77CBSSN2,60882:00 pmNo. 3 Colgate at No. 2 American62–721,908Championship – Wednesday, March 1297:00 pmNo. 5 Navy at No. 2 American52–74CBSSN2,578*Game times in ET (UTC−5 for the first round and quarterfinals and UTC−4 for the semifinals and championship).Rankings denote tournament seed. All games hosted by higher-seeded team.
Bracket
* Denotes overtime period
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