The winner was named champion of the Atlantic 10 Conference and received an automatic bid to the 2002 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.
Dayton, Richmond, Temple, Saint Joseph's and St. Bonaventure received bids to the 2002 National Invitation Tournament.
Future NBA players Rasual Butler of La Salle and Romain Sato and Lionel Chalmers, both of Xavier, were among those joining West on the All-Championship Team.
This was after a one-year departure from this format due to having only eleven teams in the conference the year before.
All games played at The Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania* - Overtime [1] Archived 2011-05-22 at the Wayback Machine Atlantic 10 Championship Results