The 2017 Colonial Athletic Association men's basketball tournament was held March 3–6, 2017 at North Charleston Coliseum in North Charleston, South Carolina.

[1] The champion, UNC Wilmington, received an automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA tournament with a 78–69 win over Charleston.

All 10 CAA teams participated in the tournament.

Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.

The top six teams received a bye to the quarterfinals.