The 2025 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament will be the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference for the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The tournament will be played March 11–15, 2025, at the Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, for the sixth year in a row. The tournament winner will receive the conference's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.
Seeds Only the top 10 teams in the conference will participate in the tournament, marking the first time in the history of the conference that not every team will participate in the event. The top six teams will receive byes to the quarterfinals. Teams will be seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker 1Fairfield19–12Quinnipiac18–23Siena14–64Mount St. Mary's12–85Marist11–96Merrimack9–113–2 vs. Saint Peter's/Manhattan/Canisius1–0 vs. Saint Peter's7Saint Peter's9–113–2 vs. Merrimack/Manhattan/Canisius0–1 vs. Merrimack8Manhattan9–112–2 vs. Merrimack/Saint Peter's/Canisius9Canisius9–112–3 vs. Merrimack/Saint Peter's/Manhattan10Iona8–12DNQRider5–151–0 vs. Sacred HeartDNQSacred Heart5–150–1 vs. RiderDNQNiagara2–18
Schedule SessionGameTime* MatchupScoreAttendanceTelevision First round – Tuesday, March 111112:00 pmNo. 8 Manhattan vs No. 9 Canisius52–42ESPN+22:30 pmNo. 7 Saint Peter's vs No. 10 Iona40–42 Quarterfinals – Wednesday, March 122312:00 pmNo. 1 Fairfield vs No. 8 Manhattan58–51 ESPN+42:30 pmNo. 2 Quinnipiac vs No. 10 Iona79–51 Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 133512:00 pmNo. 4 Mount St. Mary's vs No. 5 Marist68–65ESPN+62:30 pmNo. 3 Siena vs No. 6 Merrimack72–79 Semifinals – Friday, March 144712:00 pmNo. 1 Fairfield vs No. 4 Mount St. Mary's49–48ESPN+82:30 pmNo. 2 Quinnipiac vs No. 6 Merrimack65–51 Championship – Saturday, March 15591:30 pmNo. 1 Fairfield vs No. 2 Quinnipiac76–53ESPNU *Game times in EDT. Rankings denote tournament seeding.
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See also 2025 MAAC men's basketball tournament
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