The 2012 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference

Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference

The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference of historically black colleges and universities in the Southeastern United States...

 Men's Basketball Tournament will take place on March 5–10, 2012 at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum

The Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum is a 14,407-seat multi-purpose arena, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Construction on the arena began on April 23, 1987 and it opened on August 28, 1989...

 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Winston-Salem is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina, with a 2010 population of 229,617. Winston-Salem is the county seat and largest city of Forsyth County and the fourth-largest city in the state. Winston-Salem is the second largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region and is home to...

. The tournament winner will receive an automatic bid into the 2012 NCAA Tournament

2012 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

The 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament will involve 68 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball...

. The 2012 championship game will be televised on ESPN2 at 1:00 PM eastern on March 10.

Format

With Savannah State now in the MEAC, and North Carolina Central now a full Division I member, the MEAC will have a new format for the 2012 tournament. The top three seeds will receive a first round bye

Bye

Bye may refer to:*Bye , a special type of run scored in the game of cricket*Bye , when a player or team is allowed to advance to the next round of a playoff tournament without playing*"Bye", a song by Elliott Smith from Figure 8...

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Bracket

* – Denotes overtime