College basketball tournament
The 2022 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament was the women's postseason basketball tournament for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) for the 2021–22 NCAA Division I women's basketball season . The tournament was played March 8–12, 2022, at the Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey , for the third year in a row. The tournament winner, the Fairfield Stags , received the conference's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament .[ 1]
Seeds
All 11 teams in the conference participate in the tournament. The top five teams receive byes to the quarterfinals. Teams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
Seed
School
Conference
Tiebreaker 1
Tiebreaker 2
Tiebreaker 3
1
Fairfield
19–1
2
Quinnipiac
14–6
1–1 vs. Manhattan
0–2 vs. Fairfield
2–0 vs. Niagara
3
Manhattan
14–6
1–1 vs. Manhattan
0–2 vs. Fairfield
0–2 vs. Niagara
4
Niagara
11–9
5
Siena
10–10
6
Monmouth
9–11
1–1 vs. Saint Peter's
0–2 vs. Fairfield
2–0 vs. Quinnipiac
7
Saint Peter's
9–11
1–1 vs. Monmouth
0–2 vs. Fairfield
0–2 vs. Quinnipiac
8
Iona
8–12
9
Rider
7–13
10
Marist
6–14
11
Canisius
3–17
Schedule
Session
Game
Time*
Matchup
Score
Television
First round – Tuesday, March 8
1
1
9:30 am
(8) Iona vs. (9) Rider
74–58
ESPN+
2
11:30 am
(7) Saint Peter's vs. (10) Marist
49–29
3
1:30 pm
(6) Monmouth vs. (11) Canisius
65–71
Quarterfinals – Wednesday, March 9
2
4
1:30 pm
(1) Fairfield vs. (8) Iona
69–56
ESPN+
5
3:30 pm
(2) Quinnipiac vs. (7) Saint Peter's
63–42
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 10
3
6
12:00 pm
(3) Manhattan vs. (11) Canisius
61–49
ESPN+
7
2:30 pm
(4) Niagara vs. (5) Siena
60–59
Semifinals – Friday, March 11
4
8
11:00 am
(1) Fairfield vs. (4) Niagara
75–38
ESPN+
9
1:30 pm
(2) Quinnipiac vs. (3) Manhattan
59–72
Championship – Saturday, March 12
5
10
11:00 am
(1) Fairfield vs. (3) Manhattan
73–68
ESPNews /ESPN+
*Game times in ET . ()-Rankings denote tournament seeding.[ 2]
Bracket
First round Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship 1
Fairfield
69
8
Iona
56
8
Iona
74
9
Rider
58
1
Fairfield
75
4
Niagara
38
4
Niagara
60
5
Siena
59
1
Fairfield
73
3
Manhattan
68
2
Quinnipiac
63
7
Saint Peter's
42
7
Saint Peter's
49
10
Marist
29
2
Quinnipiac
59
3
Manhattan
72
3
Manhattan
61
11
Canisius
49
6
Monmouth
65
11
Canisius
71
* denotes number of overtimes
All-championship team
2022 MAAC women's basketball all-championship team [ 3]
Sydney Lowery, Fairfield
Dee Dee Davis, Manhattan
Rachel Hakes, Fairfield
Courtney Warley, Manhattan
Angel Parker, Niagara
Cur'Tiera Haywood, Quinnipiac
MVP Lou Lopez Sénéchal , Fairfield
See also
References
