The Mountain East Conference men's basketball tournament is the annual conference

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championship tournament for the

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. The tournament has been held annually since the MEC's establishment in 2013, with the first tournament taking place in 2014. It is a

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and seeding is based on regular season records. From 2014 to 2018, the tournament was hosted by the

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. Following several years of low attendance, the league announce it would move the event to the Wheeling Civic Center for at least 2019 and 2020. The winner, declared conference champion, receives the conference's automatic bid to the

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Results

Championship records

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, and UVA Wise never qualified for the tournament finals as MEC members. * Alderson Broaddus, Davis & Elkins, Frostburg State, West Virginia State, and

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have yet to reach a tournament final.

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Recurring sporting events established in 2014

Results

Championship records

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