The 2016 MEAC men's basketball tournament took place March 8–12, 2016 at the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia[1] The champion received the conference's automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA tournament.
The top 12 teams were eligible for the tournament, Florida A&M was ineligible for postseason play due to APR Sanctions.
[2] Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
* denotes overtime period