Get To Know a College Basketball Mid-Major: America East
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📌 Key Takeaways
- The America East Conference consists of nine teams primarily located in New York and New England.
- Postseason tournament games are hosted at the home court of the higher seed rather than a neutral site.
- Eight out of the nine conference teams qualify for the playoffs, with no first-round byes awarded.
- The conference serves as a primary 'mid-major' pathway for teams to earn a spot in March Madness.
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Basketball BuffAmerica East Conference: Where the home-court advantage is so strong, visiting teams need a GPS and a therapist. #MarchMadnessPrep
Sports SatiristUMass Lowell's move to D1: The only time a fast-food chain (Jersey Mike's) has more influence than a university. #AmericaEast
College Hoops EnthusiastAmerica East's tournament: 8 teams, 1 left out. The only thing more intense than the games is the last-place team's existential crisis. #BracketBusters
Tournament TriviaFrom Maine to Maryland: The America East Conference proves that distance isn't just a measurement, it's a strategic disadvantage. #HomeCourtAdvantage
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College Basketball, Sports Commentary, Postseason Strategy
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You know all about the Power 6 conferences in college basketball. You hear about those more than any other, and those groups often dominate the March Madness conversation. There are 31 other conferences out there, however, and our goal is to get you up to speed on the teams, players and fights in the standings to know before the conference tournaments, Selection Sunday and the official start of March Madness. It’s time for you to get to know a mid-major: this time, it’s the America East Conference. America East is not a large conference, by multiple definitions. For one, it has just nine teams in it, which puts it on the smaller side — only one more team than the Ivy League has, for instance — but also the way its conference tournament works is another tell. Rather than being played at a neutral site, the conference tourney games are instead hosted at the campus of the higher seed in each matchup. Most of the schools are packed together in the northeast, split between various New England states and New York, but then there’s UMBC praying every year that it doesn’t end up with a tournament game all the way up in Orono, ME. Also fun: the last two years the men’s and women’s tournaments have been sponsored by sandwich shop Jersey Mike’s, so the official name of last year’s women’s tourney, for instance, was the 2025 Jersey Mike’s America East Women’s Basketball Playoffs. Eight of America East’s nine teams qualify for the conference tournament each season, a change that was implemented in 2018 when UMass Lowell jumped from Division II to Division I and joined America East. It makes for a lonely March, sure, but someone has to come in last. There are no byes in the America East basketball playoffs, but seeding does allow for theoretically easier matchups for the top teams with a one-seed vs. an eight-seed in the quarterfinals, a two against a seven, scheduling of that nature. America East — Men’s College Basketball Leaders: America East’s men are having one of those sea