The Coastal Athletic Association men's basketball tournament is the conference championship tournament in
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...
for the
Coastal Athletic Association
The Coastal Athletic Association (CAA), formerly the ECAC South Conference and the Colonial Athletic Association, is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA' ...
(formerly known as the Colonial Athletic Association). The tournament has been held every year since at least 1980; for the 1979-80 to 1984-85 seasons the conference was known as the
ECAC South. It is a
single-elimination tournament
A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, ...
and seeding is based on regular season records. The winner, declared conference champion, receives the conference's automatic bid to the
NCAA basketball tournament.
Results
Notes
Championships by school
‡Former member of the CAA
Broadcasters
Television
Radio
See also
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Coastal Athletic Association women's basketball tournament
The Coastal Athletic Association
The Coastal Athletic Association (CAA), formerly the ECAC South Conference and the Colonial Athletic Association, is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference affiliated with the National C ...
References
External links
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{{NCAA men's college basketball tournament navbox
Recurring sporting events established in 1980
1980 establishments in the United States