# 2025 MAAC men's basketball tournament

The 2025 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference for the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The tournament was played March 11–15, 2025, at the Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, for the sixth year in a row. The tournament winner, Mount St. Mary's, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.

## Seeds

Only the top 10 teams in the conference will participate in the tournament, marking the first time in the history of the conference that not every team will participate in the event. The top six teams will receive byes to the quarterfinals. Teams will be seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
| Seed | School | Conference | Tiebreaker |
| 1 | Quinnipiac | 15–5 | |
| 2 | Merrimack | 14–6 | |
| 3 | Marist | 13–7 | |
| 4 | Iona | 12–8 | 2–1 vs. Manhattan/Mount St. Mary's |
| 5 | Manhattan | 12–8 | 2–2 vs. Iona/Mount St. Mary's |
| 6 | Mount St. Mary's | 12–8 | 1–2 vs. Iona/Manhattan |
| 7 | Sacred Heart | 10–10 | |
| 8 | Rider | 9–11 | 1–0 vs. Siena |
| 9 | Siena | 9–11 | 0–1 vs. Rider |
| 10 | Fairfield | 8–12 | |
| DNQ | Saint Peter's | 7–13 | |
| DNQ | Niagara | 6–14 | |
| DNQ | Canisius | 3–17 | |

## Schedule

| Session | Game | Time* | Matchup | Score | Attendance | Television |
| First round – Tuesday, March 11 |||||||
| 1 | 1 | 6:00 pm | No. 8 Rider vs No. 9 Siena | 78–76 | 1,928 | ESPN+ |
| 1 | 2 | 8:30 pm | No. 7 Sacred Heart vs No. 10 Fairfield | 71–58 | 1,928 | ESPN+ |
| Quarterfinals – Wednesday, March 12 |||||||
| 2 | 3 | 6:00 pm | No. 1 Quinnipiac vs No. 8 Rider | 78–64 | | ESPN+ |
| 2 | 4 | 8:30 pm | No. 2 Merrimack vs No. 7 Sacred Heart | 66–62$^{OT}$ | | ESPN+ |
| Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 13 |||||||
| 3 | 5 | 6:00 pm | No. 4 Iona vs No. 5 Manhattan | 77–65 | | ESPN+ |
| 3 | 6 | 8:30 pm | No. 3 Marist vs No. 6 Mount St. Mary's | 58–62 | | ESPN+ |
| Semifinals – Friday, March 14 |||||||
| 4 | 7 | 6:00 pm | No. 1 Quinnipiac vs No. 4 Iona | 73–81 | | ESPNews |
| 4 | 8 | 8:30 pm | No. 2 Merrimack vs No. 6 Mount St. Mary's | 55–57 | | ESPNews |
| Championship – Saturday, March 15 |||||||
| 5 | 9 | 7:30 pm | No. 6 Mount St. Mary's vs No. 4 Iona | 63–49 | | ESPNU |
| *Game times in EDT. Rankings denote tournament seeding. |||||||

## Bracket

| First round March 11, 2025 ESPN+ | First round March 11, 2025 ESPN+ | First round March 11, 2025 ESPN+ | Quarterfinals March 12–13, 2025 ESPN+ | Quarterfinals March 12–13, 2025 ESPN+ | Quarterfinals March 12–13, 2025 ESPN+ | Semifinals March 14, 2025 | Semifinals March 14, 2025 | Semifinals March 14, 2025 | Championship March 15, 2025 | Championship March 15, 2025 | Championship March 15, 2025 |
| | | | 1 | Quinnipiac | 78 | | | | | | |
| 8 | Rider | 78 | 8 | Rider | 64 | | | | | | |
| 9 | Siena | 76 | | | | 1 | Quinnipiac | 73 | | | |
| | | | | | | 4 | Iona | 81 | | | |
| | | | 4 | Iona | 77 | | | | | | |
| | | | 5 | Manhattan | 65 | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | 4 | Iona | 49 |
| | | | | | | | | | 6 | Mount St. Mary's | 63 |
| | | | 2 | Merrimack | 66$^{OT}$ | | | | | | |
| 7 | Sacred Heart | 71 | 7 | Sacred Heart | 62 | | | | | | |
| 10 | Fairfield | 58 | | | | 2 | Merrimack | 55 | | | |
| | | | | | | 6 | Mount St. Mary's | 57 | | | |
| | | | 3 | Marist | 58 | | | | | | |
| | | | 6 | Mount St. Mary's | 62 | | | | | | |
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