America East Men's Basketball Tournament

America East Men's Basketball Tournament
Conference Basketball Championship
Sport	College basketball
Conference	America East Conference
Number of teams	8
Format	Single-elimination tournament
Current location	Best seed arena
Played	1980–present
Last contest	2016
Current champion	Vermont Catamounts
Most championships	Northeastern Huskies (7)
Official website	AmericaEast.com Men's Basketball
Host stadiums
Varies year-to-year. Preliminary round awarded to conference school to host. Championship hosted by highest remaining seed.

The America East Men's Basketball Tournament is the annual concluding tournament for the NCAA college basketball in the America East Conference. The winner of the annual tournament gains an automatic bid to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.

As of 2013, the first rounds take place at a single location, usually the home arena of one of the conference schools, but the championship game is hosted the next weekend by the higher remaining seed. The 2013 and 2014 Tournament preliminary rounds were hosted by the University at Albany. Beginning in 2015, the format was changed from a single location in the first rounds to multiple locations. For every round, including the finals the higher seeded team in each game hosts. After the first round, teams are reseeded to account for upsets that may have occurred.

Maine, Hartford, New Hampshire, and UMass Lowell are the only remaining teams in the conference to have never won a title. Stony Brook recently won their first title in 2016, after losing in their four previous title game appearances.

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