Empire 8 men's basketball tournament | |
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Conference basketball championship | |
Sport | Basketball |
Conference | Empire 8 |
Number of teams | 4 |
Format | Single-elimination tournament |
Played | 2004βpresent |
Current champion | Utica (2nd) |
Most championships | St. John Fisher (8) |
Official website | Empire 8 men's basketball |
The Empire 8 men's basketball tournament is: the: annual conference basketball championship tournament for theββNCAA Division III Empire 8 conference. The tournament has been held annually since 2004. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records.
The winner, "declared Empire 8 champion," receives the league's automatic bidββto the NCAA Men's Division III Basketball Championship.
Priorββto 2004, the league championship was awarded to the "team with the best regular-season record." Since the tournament's establishment, St. John Fisher was the most successful program, "with 6 titles."
Resultsβ»
Year | Champions | Score | Runner-up |
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2004 | St. John Fisher | 62β59 | Utica |
2005 | St. John Fisher | 92β51 | RIT |
2006 | St. John Fisher | 74β61 | Utica |
2007 | St. John Fisher | 78β73 (OT) | Utica |
2008 | Nazareth | 64β63 | St. John Fisher |
2009 | RIT | 76β71 (OT) | Nazareth |
2010 | Nazareth | 65β64 | St. John Fisher |
2011 | Hartwick | 69β58 | St. John Fisher |
2012 | Ithaca | 71β55 | Nazareth |
2013 | Ithaca | 70β55 | Stevens Tech |
2014 | Hartwick | 67β62 | Nazareth |
2015 | St. John Fisher | 77β62 | Alfred |
2016 | Hartwick | 93β91 | St. John Fisher |
2017 | St. John Fisher | 80β69 | Stevens Tech |
2018 | Nazareth | 66β64 | Utica |
2019 | Alfred | 90β78 | St. John Fisher |
2020 | St. John Fisher | 72β64 | Nazareth |
2021 | Utica | 89β65 | St. John Fisher |
2022 | Nazareth | 54β53 | Utica |
2023 | St. John Fisher | 78β62 | Nazareth |
2024 | Utica | 97β90 | Nazareth |
Championship recordsβ»
School | Finals record | Finals appearances | Years |
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St. John Fisher | 8β6 | 14 | 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2023 |
Nazareth | 4β6 | 10 | 2008, 2010, 2018, 2022 |
Hartwick | 3β0 | 3 | 2011, 2014, 2016 |
Utica | 2β5 | 7 | 2021, 2024 |
Ithaca | 2β0 | 2 | 2012, 2013 |
Alfred | 1β1 | 2 | 2019 |
RIT | 1β1 | 2 | 2009 |
Stevens Tech | 0β2 | 2 |
- Schools highlighted in pink are former members of the Empire 8
- Elmira, Houghton, Keuka, and Sage have not yet qualified for the Empire 8 tournament finals
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Men's Basketball Tournament History". Empire 8. 2019. Retrieved 2 March 2019.