The MEAC men's basketball tournament (popularly known as the MEAC 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 court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
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 ...
(MEAC). The tournament has been held every year since 1972. It is a
single-elimination tournament
A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final mat ...
and seeding is based on regular season records. The winner, declared conference champion, receives the conference's automatic bid to the
NCAA men's basketball tournament
The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, branded as NCAA March Madness and commonly called March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 college basketball teams from ...
.
Results
* Overtime
Tournament championships by school
Television coverage
References
External links
MEACHoops.com– Official web site
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Recurring sporting events established in 1972