The 1986

America East men's basketball tournament The America East men's basketball tournament, popularly known as the America East Playoffs, is the annual concluding tournament for the NCAA college basketball in the America East Conference. The winner of the annual tournament gains an automatic ...

was hosted by the higher seeds in head-to-head matchups. The final was held at

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on the campus of the Northeastern University. Only the top-8 schools made it to the 1986 tournament, therefore excluding both Colgate and Hartford. Northeastern gained its third consecutive and fifth overall America East Conference Championship and an automatic berth to the NCAA tournament with its win over Boston University. Northeastern was given the 13th seed in the East Regional of the NCAA Tournament and lost in the first round to

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80–74. Boston University gained a bid to the NIT and lost in the first round to

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72–69.

Bracket and Results

References

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Bracket and Results

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