The 2025 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference for the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The tournament was played March 11–15, 2025, at the Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, for the sixth year in a row. The tournament winner, Mount St. Mary's, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
Seeds The top 10 teams in the conference standings qualified for the tournament, marking the first time in the history of the conference that not every team participated in the event. The top six teams received byes to the quarterfinals. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker 1Quinnipiac15–52Merrimack14–63Marist13–74Iona12–82–1 vs. Manhattan/Mount St. Mary's5Manhattan12–82–2 vs. Iona/Mount St. Mary's6Mount St. Mary's12–81–2 vs. Iona/Manhattan7Sacred Heart10–108Rider9–111–0 vs. Siena9Siena9–110–1 vs. Rider10Fairfield8–12DNQSaint Peter's7–13DNQNiagara6–14DNQCanisius3–17
Schedule SessionGameTime* MatchupScoreAttendanceTelevision First round – Tuesday, March 11116:00 pmNo. 8 Rider vs No. 9 Siena78–761,928ESPN+28:30 pmNo. 7 Sacred Heart vs No. 10 Fairfield71–58 Quarterfinals – Wednesday, March 12236:00 pmNo. 1 Quinnipiac vs No. 8 Rider78–64 ESPN+48:30 pmNo. 2 Merrimack vs No. 7 Sacred Heart66–62 Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 13356:00 pmNo. 4 Iona vs No. 5 Manhattan77–65ESPN+68:30 pmNo. 3 Marist vs No. 6 Mount St. Mary's58–62 Semifinals – Friday, March 14476:00 pmNo. 1 Quinnipiac vs No. 4 Iona73–81ESPNews88:30 pmNo. 2 Merrimack vs No. 6 Mount St. Mary's55–57 Championship – Saturday, March 15597:30 pmNo. 6 Mount St. Mary's vs No. 4 Iona63–49ESPNU *Game times in EDT. Rankings denote tournament seeding.
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See also 2025 MAAC women's basketball tournament
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