Kevin Tresolini

The News Journal

The Colonial Athletic Association will move its men's basketball tournament to North Charleston, South Carolina, in 2017, several Charleston TV stations reported on Wednesday.

An official announcement will come Thursday, it was reported, that the North Charleston Coliseum will host the event for the next three years.

The arena previously hosted Big South and Southern Conference tournaments. The College of Charleston, presently in its third year as a CAA member, would be the tournament host, though the Cougars play their games on campus at TD Arena.

The CAA Tournament, which determines the conference's automatic NCAA Tournament entry, will be held in Baltimore for the third -- and final -- time from March 4-7 at Royal Farms Arena. Delaware won the first title there in 2014.

It had previously been held at the Richmond Coliseum from 1990 through 2013. While both Richmond and Baltimore were central locations for conference schools, Charleston is the southernmost member in a 10-team league that stretches all the way to Boston.

The CAA has also been discussing moving the women's tournament out of the Show Place Arena in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, where it will be held for the sixth time March 9-12, and returning to a campus site.