The Empire 8 men's basketball tournament is the annual conference basketball championship tournament for the NCAA Division III Empire 8 conference.
It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records.
[1] The winner, declared Empire 8 champion, receives the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Men's Division III Basketball Championship.
Prior to 2004, the league championship was awarded to the team with the best regular-season record.
Since the tournament's establishment, St. John Fisher was the most successful program, with 6 titles.