The six-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play.
[2] The title was the second for the Buffalo women's soccer program both of which have come under head coach Shawn Burke.
A tiebreaker was required to determine the fifth and sixth seeds and which team would not qualify for the tournament as Miami (OH), Western Michigan, and Kent State all finished with seventeen points in regular season conference play.
During the regular season Miami (OH) defeated Western Michigan and tied with Kent State.
Western Michigan defeated Kent State and lost to Miami (OH).