2018 America East women's basketball tournament

2018 America East women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2017–18
Teams	9
Quarterfinals site	Cross Insurance Arena Portland, ME
Semifinals site	Cross Insurance Arena Portland, ME
Finals site	Cross Insurance Center Bangor, ME
Champions	Maine (8th title)
Winning coach	Amy Vachon (1st title)
MVP	Blanca Millan (Maine)
Television	ESPNU/ESPN3
America East women's basketball tournaments

2017–18 America East Conference women's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Maine †	13	–	3		.813			23	–	10		.697
Albany	12	–	4		.750			24	–	8		.750
Binghamton	10	–	6		.625			20	–	12		.625
Stony Brook	10	–	6		.625			18	–	12		.600
Hartford	9	–	7		.563			19	–	13		.594
New Hampshire	9	–	7		.563			19	–	12		.613
Vermont	5	–	11		.313			8	–	22		.267
UMBC	3	–	13		.188			5	–	26		.161
UMass Lowell	1	–	15		.063			4	–	26		.133
† 2018 America East tournament winner As of 20 March 2018 Rankings from AP poll

The 2018 America East women's basketball tournament began on February 28 and concluded with the championship game on March 9. Maine, the winner of the America East, earned an automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA tournament.

Seeds

Teams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

Seed	School	Conf	Overall	Tiebreaker
#1	Maine	13–3	20–9
#2	Albany	12–4	23–6
#3	Binghamton	10–6	19–10	higher RPI
#4	Stony Brook	10–6	17–11
#5	UNH	9–7	18–11	higher RPI
#6	Hartford	9–7	17–12
#7	Vermont	5–11	8–21
#8	UMBC	3–13	5–25
#9	Mass-Lowell	1–15	4–26

Schedule

All tournament games are nationally televised on an ESPN network:

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup#	Television	Attendance
First Round Game – Wednesday, February 28
1	1	6:00pm	#9 Mass-Lowell at #8 UMBC	ESPN3	281
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 3
2	2	12:00pm	#1 Maine vs. #8 UMBC	ESPN3	2,158
	3	2:15pm	#4 Stony Brook vs. #5 UNH
3	4	6:00pm	#2 Albany vs. #7 Vermont
	5	8:15pm	#3 Binghamton vs. #6 Hartford
Semifinals – Sunday, March 4
4	6	2:00pm	#1 Maine vs #5 UNH	ESPN3
	7	4:30pm	#2 Albany vs #6 Hartford
Championship Game – Friday, March 9
5	8	4:00 PM	#6 Hartford at #1 Maine	ESPNU	3,373
*Game Times in EST. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket and Results

	First round Wednesday, February 28, 2018 ESPN3					Quarterfinals Saturday, March 3, 2018 ESPN3					Semifinals Sunday, March 4, 2018 ESPN3					Championship Game Friday, March 9, 2018 ESPNU
						1	Maine	65
						8	UMBC	43
	8	UMBC	73
	9	Mass-Lowell	65
											1	Maine	64
											5	UNH	48
						4	Stony Brook	54
						5	UNH	71
																1	Maine	75
																6	Hartford	64
						2	Albany	60
						7	Vermont	42
											2	Albany	56
											6	Hartford	58
						3	Binghamton	68
						6	Hartford	72

All times listed are Eastern

External links

• 2018 America East Women's Basketball Championship

See also

• 2018 America East men's basketball tournament