2022 MAAC women's basketball tournament

2022 MAAC women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2021–22
Teams	11
Site	Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall Atlantic City, New Jersey
Champions	Fairfield Stags (4th title)
Winning coach	Joe Frager (1st title)
MVP	Lou Lopez Sénéchal (Fairfield)
Television	ESPNews, ESPN+
MAAC women's basketball tournaments

2021–22 MAAC women's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Fairfield †	19	–	1		.950			25	–	7		.781
Quinnipiac	14	–	6		.700			21	–	12		.636
Manhattan	14	–	6		.700			21	–	11		.656
Niagara	11	–	9		.550			15	–	15		.500
Siena	10	–	10		.500			10	–	19		.345
Monmouth	9	–	11		.450			14	–	16		.467
Saint Peter's	9	–	11		.450			13	–	18		.419
Iona	8	–	12		.400			11	–	16		.407
Rider	7	–	13		.350			9	–	21		.300
Marist	6	–	14		.300			8	–	21		.276
Canisius	3	–	17		.150			6	–	25		.194
† 2022 MAAC tournament winner

The 2022 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament was the women's postseason basketball tournament for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) for the 2021–22 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The tournament was played March 8–12, 2022, at the Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, for the third year in a row. The tournament winner, the Fairfield Stags, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.

Seeds

All 11 teams in the conference participate in the tournament. The top five teams receive byes to the quarterfinals. Teams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

Seed	School	Conference	Tiebreaker 1	Tiebreaker 2	Tiebreaker 3
1	Fairfield	19–1
2	Quinnipiac	14–6	1–1 vs. Manhattan	0–2 vs. Fairfield	2–0 vs. Niagara
3	Manhattan	14–6	1–1 vs. Manhattan	0–2 vs. Fairfield	0–2 vs. Niagara
4	Niagara	11–9
5	Siena	10–10
6	Monmouth	9–11	1–1 vs. Saint Peter's	0–2 vs. Fairfield	2–0 vs. Quinnipiac
7	Saint Peter's	9–11	1–1 vs. Monmouth	0–2 vs. Fairfield	0–2 vs. Quinnipiac
8	Iona	8–12
9	Rider	7–13
10	Marist	6–14
11	Canisius	3–17

Schedule

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup	Score	Television
First round – Tuesday, March 8
1	1	9:30 am	(8) Iona vs. (9) Rider	74–58	ESPN+
	2	11:30 am	(7) Saint Peter's vs. (10) Marist	49–29
	3	1:30 pm	(6) Monmouth vs. (11) Canisius	65–71
Quarterfinals – Wednesday, March 9
2	4	1:30 pm	(1) Fairfield vs. (8) Iona	69–56	ESPN+
	5	3:30 pm	(2) Quinnipiac vs. (7) Saint Peter's	63–42
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 10
3	6	12:00 pm	(3) Manhattan vs. (11) Canisius	61–49	ESPN+
	7	2:30 pm	(4) Niagara vs. (5) Siena	60–59
Semifinals – Friday, March 11
4	8	11:00 am	(1) Fairfield vs. (4) Niagara	75–38	ESPN+
	9	1:30 pm	(2) Quinnipiac vs. (3) Manhattan	59–72
Championship – Saturday, March 12
5	10	11:00 am	(1) Fairfield vs. (3) Manhattan	73–68	ESPNews/ESPN+
*Game times in ET. ()-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

	First round Tuesday, March 8 ESPN+					Quarterfinals Wednesday/Thursday, March 9/10 ESPN+					Semifinals Friday, March 11 ESPN+					Championship Saturday, March 12 ESPNews/ESPN+
						1	Fairfield	69
						8	Iona	56
	8	Iona	74
	9	Rider	58
											1	Fairfield	75
											4	Niagara	38
						4	Niagara	60
						5	Siena	59
																1	Fairfield	73
																3	Manhattan	68
						2	Quinnipiac	63
						7	Saint Peter's	42
	7	Saint Peter's	49
	10	Marist	29
											2	Quinnipiac	59
											3	Manhattan	72
						3	Manhattan	61
						11	Canisius	49
	6	Monmouth	65
	11	Canisius	71

* denotes number of overtimes

All-championship team

2022 MAAC women's basketball all-championship team

Sydney Lowery, Fairfield Dee Dee Davis, Manhattan Rachel Hakes, Fairfield Courtney Warley, Manhattan Angel Parker, Niagara Cur'Tiera Haywood, Quinnipiac MVP Lou Lopez Sénéchal, Fairfield

See also

• 2022 MAAC men's basketball tournament