The 2025 Patriot League Women's Basketball Tournament was the conference postseason tournament for the Patriot League. The tournament was held March 8-16, 2025 at campus sites of the higher seeds. The winner received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Seeds All ten teams in the conference standings qualified for the tournament. The teams were 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. SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker 1Tiebreaker 21 Lehigh 15–32 Army 14–43 Colgate 13–54 Navy 11–7 4–0 vs. Holy Cross/Bucknell5 Holy Cross 11–7 2–0 vs. Bucknell6Bucknell 11–7 0–2 vs. Holy Cross 7 Lafayette 6–128 Boston University 5–139 Loyola 3–1510 American 1–17
Schedule GameTimeMatchupScoreTelevisionAttendanceFirst round – Saturday, March 814:00 pmNo. 7 Lafayette vs. No. 10 American75–51ESPN+22:00 pmNo. 8 Boston University vs. No. 9 Loyola 87–53Quarterfinals – Monday, March 1036:00 pmNo. 1 Lehigh vs. No. 8 Boston University62–44ESPN+46:00 pmNo. 2 Army vs. No. 7 Lafayette55–4056:00 pmNo. 3 Colgate vs. No. 6 Bucknell58–6366:00 pmNo. 4 Navy vs. No. 5 Holy Cross52–66Semifinals – Thursday, March 1376:00 pmNo. 1 Lehigh vs. No. 5 Holy Cross65–44ESPN+86:00 pmNo. 2 Army vs. No. 6 Bucknell49–39Championship – Sunday, March 16912:00 pmNo. 1 Lehigh vs. No. 2 Army74–62CBSSN*Game times in ET (UTC−5 for the first round and UTC−4 for the quarterfinals, semifinals, and championship).Rankings denote tournament seed. All games hosted by higher-seeded team.
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