| Year: | 2022 |
| Conference: | MAAC |
| Division: | I |
| Gender: | Women's |
| Teams: | 11 |
| Arena: | Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall |
| City: | Atlantic City, New Jersey |
| Champions: | Fairfield Stags |
| Titlecount: | 4th |
| Coach: | Joe Frager |
| Coachcount: | 1st |
| Mvp: | Lou Lopez Sénéchal |
| Mvpteam: | Fairfield |
| Television: | ESPNews, ESPN+ |
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.[1]
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 | |||
| 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+ | |
| 2022 MAAC women's basketball all-championship team[3] | |
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