The 2018

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. The tournament was held March 3–6, 2018 at the

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received the CAA's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament with an 83–76 overtime win over Northeastern in the championship game.

Tournament changes

On July 11, 2017, it was announced that the tournament, which was previously played on a Friday–Monday format, would move to a Saturday–Tuesday format beginning with the 2018 tournament. It was also announced that the semifinals and championship would be televised on

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through the 2021 tournament.

Seeds

All 10 CAA teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. The top six teams received a bye to the quarterfinals.

Schedule

Bracket

* denotes overtime game

Game summaries

First round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Championship

Team and tournament leaders

Team leaders

References

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