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2024 Patriot League men's basketball tournament

2024 Patriot League men's basketball tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season2023–24
Teams10
SiteCampus sites
ChampionsColgate (7th title)
Winning coachMatt Langel (5th title)
Attendance9,383
TelevisionESPN+, CBSSN
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2023–24 Patriot League men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Colgate 16 2   .889 25 10   .714
Boston University 10 8   .556 16 17   .485
Lafayette 10 8   .556 11 21   .344
American 10 8   .556 16 16   .500
Bucknell 10 8   .556 14 19   .424
Lehigh 9 9   .500 14 18   .438
Navy 8 10   .444 13 18   .419
Army 6 12   .333 10 22   .313
Holy Cross 6 12   .333 10 23   .303
Loyola 5 13   .278 7 25   .219
2024 Patriot League tournament winner

The 2024 Patriot League Men's Basketball Tournament was the conference postseason tournament for the Patriot League. The tournament was held March 5–13, 2024 at campus sites of the higher seeds. The winner received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.[1]

Seeds

All ten teams in the conference qualified for the tournament. The teams were 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. If the teams remain tied, the NCAA NET rankings available on 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 two or more teams remain tied, the multiple-team tiebreaker process continues and does not revert to a new two-team or multiple-team tiebreaker.[2]

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. Boston University had a 4–2 record in head-to-head games against American, Bucknell and Lafayette, earning the no. 2 seed. Bucknell had a 2–4 head-to-head record, causing them to be seeded no. 5. American and Lafayette each had 3–3 head-to-head records, leaving them in a tie for the no. 3 seed. American and Lafayette each split their season series with no. 1 seed Colgate. Lafayette earned the no. 3 seed by virtue of their 1–1 record versus no. 2 seed Boston University, while American was 0–2 against the Terriers.

If teams involved in the initial tie were ignored in applying subsequent tiebreaker steps, American would have been the no. 3 seed, based on their 1–1 record against Lehigh, superior to Lafayette, who were 0–2 versus the Mountain Hawks.

If Boston University and Bucknell were treated as a group of tied teams, since they both finished 10–8 and tied for second place, in applying subsequent steps of the tiebreaker, the tie would not have been resolved at this step, since American and Lafayette each had 2–2 records versus Boston University and Bucknell. The procedure would have continued to the next step, the teams' records against no. 6 seed Lehigh, which American would have won.

Seed School Conference Tiebreaker 1 Tiebreaker 2
1 Colgate 16–2
2 Boston University 10–8 4–2 vs. Lafayette/American/Bucknell
3 Lafayette 10–8 3–3 vs. Boston University/American/Bucknell 1–1 vs. Boston University
4 American 10–8 3–3 vs. Boston University/Lafayette/Bucknell 0–2 vs. Boston University
5 Bucknell 10–8 2–4 vs. Boston University/Lafayette/American
6 Lehigh 9–9
7 Navy 8–10
8 Army 6–12 2–0 vs. Holy Cross
9 Holy Cross 6–12 0–2 vs. Army
10 Loyola 5–13

Schedule

Game Time Matchup Score Television Attendance
First round – Tuesday, March 5
1 7:00 pm No. 7 Navy vs. No. 10 Loyola 64–48 ESPN+ 583
2 6:00 pm No. 8 Army vs No. 9 Holy Cross 68–84 170
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 7
3 7:00 pm No. 1 Colgate vs. No. 9 Holy Cross 81–64 ESPN+ 1,405
4 7:00 pm No. 2 Boston University vs. No. 7 Navy 70–61 715
5 7:00 pm No. 3 Lafayette vs. No. 6 Lehigh 61–76 1,776
6 7:00 pm No. 4 American vs. No. 5 Bucknell 57–80 1,172
Semifinals – Sunday, March 10
7 2:00 pm No. 1 Colgate vs. No. 5 Bucknell 68–65 CBSSN 1,106
8 4:00 pm No. 2 Boston University vs. No. 6 Lehigh 79–84OT 923
Championship – Wednesday, March 13
9 7:00 pm No. 1 Colgate vs. No. 6 Lehigh 74–55 CBSSN 1,533
Game times in ET. Rankings denote tournament seeding. All games hosted by higher-seeded team.

Bracket

First round
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
ESPN+
Quarterfinals
Thursday March 7, 2024
ESPN+
Semifinals
Sunday, March 10, 2024
CBSSN
Championship
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
CBSSN
1 Colgate 81
8 Army 68 9 Holy Cross 64
9 Holy Cross 84 1 Colgate 68
5 Bucknell 65
4 American 57
5 Bucknell 80
1 Colgate 74
6 Lehigh 55
2 Boston University 70
7 Navy 64 7 Navy 61
10 Loyola 48 2 Boston University 79
6 Lehigh 84*
3 Lafayette 61
6 Lehigh 76

* Denotes overtime period

References

  1. ^ "2024 PenFed Credit Union Patriot League Men's Basketball Championship – Patriot League". Patriot League. Retrieved February 7, 2024.
  2. ^ "2023–24 Men's Basketball Standings". Patriot League. Retrieved February 28, 2024.