The 2017 Colonial Athletic Association women's basketball tournament was a postseason event was held from March 8–11, 2017 at the JMU Convocation Center in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Elon won their first CAA Women's Basketball Tournament in school history and earn an automatic trip to the NCAA women's tournament.
Seeds Due to the revelation that Charleston had supplied improperly sized basketballs in its home conference wins over William & Mary and UNCW, the CAA announced on February 2 that those games would be treated as Charleston losses for purposes of CAA tournament seeding, although they still count as Charleston wins for all other purposes.
SeedSchoolConferenceOverallTiebreaker 1Tiebreaker 21 ‡† Elon16–224–62 † James Madison15–322–73 † Drexel11–720–94 † William & Mary10–819–101–1 vs. Delaware0–2 vs. Elon, 1–1 vs. JMU5 † Delaware10–816–131–1 vs. William & Mary0–2 vs. Elon, 0–2 vs. JMU6 † Northeastern8–1012–187UNC Wilmington6–1210–198Towson5–1312–171–1 vs. Hofstra0–2 vs. Elon, 2–0 vs. JMU9Hofstra5–1312–171–1 vs. Towson0–2 vs. Elon, 0–2 vs. JMU10College of Charleston4–149–20‡ – CAA regular season champions.† – Received a bye in the conference tournament.Overall records are as of the end of the regular season.Changes due to the Charleston basketball size scandal: William & Mary's CAA record for tournament seeding purposes was 10–8 instead of its actual 9–9. UNCW's CAA record for tournament seeding purposes was 6–12 instead of its actual 5–13. Charleston's CAA record for tournament seeding purposes was 4–14 instead of its actual 6–12.
Schedule SessionGameTime*Matchup#TelevisionScoreAttendance First round – Wednesday, March 8, 20171112:00 pm#9 Hofstra vs. 8 Towson CAA.tv77–66 1,12322:30 pm#10 College of Charleston vs. #7 UNC Wilmington44–49 Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 9, 20172312:00 pm#9 Hofstra vs. #1 Elon CAA.tv50–78 2,49742:30 pm#5 Delaware vs #4 William & Mary44–59355:00 pm#7 UNC Wilmington vs. #2 James Madison27–5267:30 pm#6 Northeastern vs #3 Drexel50–68 Semifinals – Friday, March 10, 2017474:30 pm#1 Elon vs. #4 William & Mary CSN88–6087:00 pm#2 James Madison vs. #3 Drexel76–68 Championship – Saturday, March 11, 2017597:00 pm#1 Elon vs #2 James Madison CSN78–60 *Game times in ET.
Bracket
See also 2017 CAA men's basketball tournament
References
External links 2017 CAA Women's Basketball Championship