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About MEAC Basketball Tournament
Across the country, March signifies the start of college basketball's crazy postseason. The first steps toward March Madness are the conference tournaments that take place in each of the NCAA's conferences.
Among those is the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), whose tournament dates back to 1972. As one of the smallest conferences in the country, the MEAC sends only one team to the NCAA tournament — its conference champion, crowned at the end of an 11-team, single-elimination tournament. The current iteration of the tournament takes place at Norfolk Scope in Virginia, the former home of the Old Dominion Monarchs.
No team has ever been more successful in the MEAC tournament than the North Carolina A&T Aggies, who have won the title a record 16 times. However, in-state rival North Carolina Central has been successful more recently, with three championships in the ‘10s.
While the MEAC doesn't have the name recognition of the bigger conferences, a handful of NBA players got their start in the conference. The 2012 tournament MVP Kyle O'Quinn parlayed a successful college career into a solid career in the NBA, while Florida A&M's Jerome James carved out an 11-year career in the early part of the 21st century.
Perhaps the most successful MEAC player in the NBA was North Carolina A&T's Al Attles, who played 11 seasons in the NBA after being drafted in 1960. Attles played his entire career with the Warriors, first in Philadelphia, then when the team moved west, in San Francisco.
Since Covid it's kind of hard trying to get out and enjoy people and your surroundings. But using ticketmaster and getting the tickets for the basketball games were nice enjoyment for my girlfriend and I. We went to both Friday and Saturday games and enjoy both of them, thank you very much.
The event was cancelled due to the covid 19 virus.
GREAT TIME, FOOD WAS GOOD....THE STAFF WERE GREAT AS WELL..
HBCU basketball!! History and basketball , nothing better during March Madness.
My son and I had a great time at the tournament. The games were great and the bands ans cheerleaders were entertaining too. I will go again next year. I will also talk alot of my friends into going.
The tournament was excellent, would liked to have see more major sponsors with free giveaways.
The men's game should be last and the women first.
