2025 Patriot League men's basketball tournament
| 2025 Patriot League men's basketball tournament | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 2024–25 |
| Teams | 10 |
| Site | Campus sites |
| Television | ESPN+, CBSSN |
| Conf. | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bucknell | 13 | – | 5 | .722 | 18 | – | 15 | .545 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| American | 13 | – | 5 | .722 | 21 | – | 12 | .636 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Colgate | 10 | – | 8 | .556 | 14 | – | 19 | .424 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Boston University | 10 | – | 8 | .556 | 16 | – | 16 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Navy | 10 | – | 8 | .556 | 15 | – | 18 | .455 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Army | 10 | – | 8 | .556 | 16 | – | 15 | .516 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lafayette | 7 | – | 11 | .389 | 13 | – | 20 | .394 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loyola | 6 | – | 12 | .333 | 12 | – | 19 | .387 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lehigh | 6 | – | 12 | .333 | 11 | – | 19 | .367 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Holy Cross | 5 | – | 13 | .278 | 13 | – | 19 | .406 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 2025 Patriot League tournament winner As of March 9, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2025 Patriot League Men's Basketball Tournament will be the conference postseason tournament for the Patriot League. The tournament will be held March 4–12, 2025 at campus sites of the higher seeds. The winner will receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.[1]
Seeds
[edit]All ten teams in the conference standings will qualify for the tournament. The teams will be seeded by record in conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
The first tiebreaker is the head-to-head records of the tied teams. If teams remain tied, the tied teams' records against the highest seeded Patriot League team not involved in the tie are compared, provided each of the tied teams played that team at least once. If the tied teams have identical winning percentages against the highest seeded team, the process works its way down the standings. Since ties are resolved sequentially starting with the no. 1 seed, teams seeded above the tied teams are considered separately rather than as a group, even if they have identical records. If the teams remain tied, the NCAA NET rankings available on the day following the conclusion of Patriot League regular-season play are used. In the event tied teams have identical NET rankings, the tied teams' winning percentages against non-Patriot League common opponents are compared. If the tie involves three or more teams, and one or more teams are superior or inferior to the others after any step, but three or more teams remain tied, the multiple-team tiebreaker process continues and does not revert to a new multiple-team tiebreaker. Multiple-team tiebreakers revert to a two-team tiebreaker, when the number of tied teams is reduced to two.[2] In the prior season, multiple-team tiebreakers contunued until they were completely resolved, even if only two teams remained tied.
Once a team is eliminated from a multiple-team tiebreaker, either by demonstrating superiority or inferiority to the remaining tied teams, it is treated as if it had not been involved in the initial tie for the purposes of applying the remaining steps in continuing the tiebreaker procedure, and such team is seeded according to the tiebreaker result. This point was relevant in applying the tiebreaker procedure to break the four-way tie for second place in 2024.
| Seed | School | Conference | Tiebreaker 1 | Tiebreaker 2 |
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| 1 | Bucknell | 13–5 | 5–3 vs. Colgate, Boston University, Navy and Army | |
| 2 | American | 13–5 | 4–4 vs. Colgate, Boston University, Navy and Army | |
| 3 | Colgate | 10–8 | 4–2 vs. Boston University, Navy and Army | |
| 4 | Boston University | 10–8 | 3–3 vs. Colgate, Navy and Army | 1–1 vs. Bucknell |
| 5 | Navy | 10–8 | 3–3 vs. Colgate, Boston University and Army | 0–2 vs. Bucknell |
| 6 | Army | 10–8 | 2–4 vs. Colgate, Boston University and Navy | |
| 7 | Lafayette | 7–11 | ||
| 8 | Loyola | 6–12 | 2–0 vs. Lehigh | |
| 9 | Lehigh | 6–12 | 0–2 vs. Loyola | |
| 10 | Holy Cross | 5–13 |
Schedule
[edit]| Game | Time | Matchup | Score | Television | Attendance |
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| First round – Tuesday, March 4 | |||||
| 1 | 7:00 pm | No. 10 Holy Cross at No. 7 Lafayette | 68–69 | ESPN+ | 1,565 |
| 2 | 7:00 pm | No. 9 Lehigh at No. 8 Loyola | 73–77 | 423 | |
| Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 6 | |||||
| 3 | 7:00 pm | No. 8 Loyola at No. 1 Bucknell | 72–76OT | ESPN+ | 2,898 |
| 4 | 7:00 pm | No. 7 Lafayette at No. 2 American | 69–71 | 1,870 | |
| 5 | 7:00 pm | No. 6 Army at No. 3 Colgate | 55–84 | 1,193 | |
| 6 | 7:00 pm | No. 5 Navy at No. 4 Boston University | 86–78 | 530 | |
| Semifinals – Sunday, March 9 | |||||
| 7 | 12:00 pm | No. 5 Navy at No. 1 Bucknell | 83–77 | CBSSN | 2,608 |
| 8 | 2:00 pm | No. 3 Colgate at No. 2 American | 62–72 | 1,908 | |
| Championship – Wednesday, March 12 | |||||
| 9 | 7:00 pm | No. 5 Navy at No. 2 American | – | CBSSN | |
| *Game times in ET (UTC−5 for the first round and quarterfinals and UTC−4 for the semifinals and championship). Rankings denote tournament seed. All games hosted by higher-seeded team. | |||||
Bracket
[edit]| First round Tuesday, March 4, 2025 ESPN+ | Quarterfinals Thursday March 6, 2025 ESPN+ | Semifinals Sunday, March 9, 2025 CBSSN | Championship Wednesday, March 12, 2025 CBSSN | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Bucknell | 76* | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Loyola | 77 | 8 | Loyola | 72 | ||||||||||||||
| 9 | Lehigh | 73 | 1 | Bucknell | 77 | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | Navy | 83 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Boston University | 78 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Navy | 86 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Navy | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | American | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | American | 71 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Lafayette | 69 | 7 | Lafayette | 69 | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | Holy Cross | 68 | 2 | American | 72 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Colgate | 62 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Colgate | 84 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Army | 55 | |||||||||||||||||
* Denotes overtime period
References
[edit]- ^ "2025 PenFed Credit Union Patriot League Men's Basketball Championship". Patriot League. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
- ^ "2024–25 Men's Basketball Standings". Patriot League. Retrieved February 26, 2025.