The MEAC men's basketball tournament (popularly known as the MEAC tournament) is the conference championship tournament in
basketball
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for the
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC ) is a List of NCAA conferences, collegiate athletic conference whose full members are historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and the Mid-A ...
(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 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 men's basketball tournament
The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, branded as March Madness, or The Big Dance, is a single-elimination tournament played in the United States to determine the men's college basketball national champion of the NCAA Division I, Di ...
.
Results
Tournament championships by school
Former MEAC members are indicated in ''italics''.
Television coverage
See also
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MEAC women's basketball tournament
The MEAC women's basketball tournament is the conference championship tournament in women's basketball for the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). It is a single-elimination tournament involving all 13 league members, and seeding is based on ...
References
External links
MEACHoops.com– Official web site
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Recurring sporting events established in 1972