The five-match tournament took place at campus sites, with the higher seed hosting.
The six-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play.
The defending champions were the Albany Great Danes, but they were eliminated from the 2017 tournament with a 2–1 loss in the quarterfinals to the Vermont Catamounts.
The Stony Brook Seawolves won the tournament with a 2–1 victory over the Vermont Catamounts in the final.
[1][2] The conference tournament title was the second for the Stony Brook women's soccer program and the first for head coach Brendan Faherty.