2012 MEAC men's basketball tournament

The 2012 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament took place March 5–10, 2012 at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Norfolk State won the tournament and received an automatic bid into the 2012 NCAA tournament. The 2012 championship game was televised on ESPN2 on March 10. This was the final year in Winston-Salem, as the tournament moved to Norfolk, VA beginning in 2013.

Format
With Savannah State and North Carolina Central in the MEAC as full Division I members, the MEAC had a new format for the 2012 tournament. The top three seeds received a first round bye.