2016 Patriot League women's basketball tournament explained

The 2016 Patriot League women's basketball tournament was held March 5, 7, 11 and 12 at campus sites of the higher seed. Army defeated Loyola (MD) to win their 3rd Patriot League title and earn an automatic trip to the NCAA women's tournament.

Seeds

Teams are seeded by conference record, with ties broken in the following order:

• Head-to-head record between the teams involved in the tie
• Record against the highest-seeded team not involved in the tie, going down through the seedings as necessary
• Higher RPI entering the tournament, as published by College Basketball News

Seed	School	Conference	Overall	Tiebreaker
1	Army	17–1	26–2	Higher RPI as of March 3
2	Bucknell	17–1	23–6
3	Loyola (MD)	11–7	14–15
4	Lehigh	10–8	17–12	1–1 vs. Holy Cross, 2–0 vs. Loyola
5	Holy Cross	10–8	14–15	1–1 vs. Lehigh, 0–2 vs. Loyola
6	Navy	9–9	15–14
7	American	5–13	7–22
8	Colgate	4–14	6–22	2–0 vs. Lafayette
9	Lafayette	4–14	6–22	0–2 vs. Colgate
10	Boston University	3–15	3–26

Schedule

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Game	Time*	Matchup	Television	Attendance
First round – Saturday, March 5
1	2:00 PM	10 Boston University at #7 American	PLN	177
2	4:00 PM	9 Lafayette at #8 Colgate		717
Quarterfinals – Monday, March 7
3	7:30 PM	8 Colgate at #1 Army	PLN	641
4	7:00 PM	5 Holy Cross at #4 Lehigh		470
5	7:00 PM	6 Navy at #3 Loyola (MD)		532
6	7:00 PM	7 American at #2 Bucknell		661
Semifinals – Friday, March 11
7	5:00 PM	4 Lehigh at #1 Army	PLN
8	7:30 PM	3 Loyola (MD) at #2 Bucknell		768
Championship – Saturday, March 12
9	6:00 pm	3 Loyola (MD) at #1 Army	CBSSN	1,121
Game times in ET. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding. All games hosted by higher-seeded team.