MEAC Tournament: Preview, CBSSports.com prediction, TV info

What: Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference championship.
When: March 10-15.
Where: All games held at Scope Arena in Norfolk, Virginia
Bracket: View tournament field here.
TV: Championship game on ESPNU (March 15, 6 p.m.).
Last year's champ: North Carolina A&T (19-16, No. 16 seed)

What matters: This is a league that would greatly benefit from getting its top seed into the field. North Carolina Central is far and away the best team the MEAC has this season. The Eagles went 25-5 overall, 15-1 in the league and in fact have won 17 in a row. It ranks 99th in KenPom and 111 in RPI, both strong numbers for a MEAC club. The team allows less than 60 points per game.


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Hampton is the No. 2 seed, having finished 18-11 overall, 13-3 in the MEAC.  Morgan State and Norfolk State are the three and four (11-5 in league play). The MEAC is like the big-conference tournaments in that it's day after day after day, as opposed to most smaller leagues, which either spread out their brackets or only have three days tops of consecutive play. This one starts Monday and ends Saturday.

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