The 2018
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) is a collegiate athletic conference whose full members are historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southeastern and the Mid-Atlantic United States. It participates in the National ...
men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) is a collegiate athletic conference whose full members are historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southeastern and the Mid-Atlantic United States. It participates in the National ...
. The tournament was held from March 5–10, 2018 at the
Norfolk Scope in
Norfolk, Virginia
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. No. 6 seed
North Carolina Central
North Carolina Central University (NCCU or NC Central) is a public historically black university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by James E. Shepard in affiliation with the Chautauqua movement in 1909, it was supported by private funds from ...
defeated No. 1 seed
Hampton
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Places Australia
*Hampton bioregion, an IBRA biogeographic region in Western Australia
* Hampton, New South Wales
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*Hampton, Victoria
Canada
*Hampton, New Brunswick
*Ham ...
in the championship game to win the tournament and receive the conference's automatic bid to the
NCAA tournament.
Seeds
Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The top three teams received a first round bye.
Schedule
Bracket
* denotes overtime period
References
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