2010 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament
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The 2010 Mid-American Conference men's basketball tournament is the post-season basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference
(MAC) 2009–2010 season
. The winner of the tournament receives the MAC's automatic bid into the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
tournament.
The top four seeds receive byes into the quarterfinals. The winners of each division are awarded the #1 and #2 seeds. The team with the best record of the two receives the #1 seed. First round games will be played on campus sites at the higher seed. The remaining rounds will be held at Quicken Loans Arena
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* Overtime
Mid-American Conference
The Mid-American Conference is a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from Western New York to Illinois. Nine of the twelve full member schools are in Ohio and Michigan, with single members...
(MAC) 2009–2010 season
2009–10 Mid-American Conference season
The 2009–10 Mid-American Conference season is the 64th season in Mid-American Conference existence. Teams in this conference complete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I competitions. In this season, the Mid-American Conference sponsored 23 sports .-Member schools:The...
. The winner of the tournament receives the MAC's automatic bid into the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a single-elimination tournament held each spring in the United States, featuring 68 college basketball teams, to determine the national championship in the top tier of college basketball...
tournament.
Format
Each of the 12 men's basketball teams in the MAC receives a berth in the conference tournament. Teams are seeded by conference record with the following tie-breakers:- Head-to-head competition
- Winning percentage vs. ranked conference teams (top to bottom, regardless of division, vs. common opponents regardless of the number of times played)
- Coin flip
The top four seeds receive byes into the quarterfinals. The winners of each division are awarded the #1 and #2 seeds. The team with the best record of the two receives the #1 seed. First round games will be played on campus sites at the higher seed. The remaining rounds will be held at Quicken Loans Arena
Quicken Loans Arena
Quicken Loans Arena , is a multi-purpose arena, in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States....
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Bracket
Tiebreakers
| Seed | Team | Record | Tiebreaker #1 | Tiebreaker #2 | Tiebreaker #3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kent State | 13–3 | – | – | – |
| 2 | Central Michigan | 9–7 | Division champ | – | – |
| 3 | Akron | 12–4 | – | – | – |
| 4 | Miami | 9–7 | 1–1 head-to-head | 1–1 vs. #1 KSU | 1–1 vs. #2 Akron |
| 5 | Buffalo | 9–7 | 1–1 head-to-head | 1–1 vs. #1 KSU | 0–2 vs. #2 Akron |
| 6 | Eastern Michigan | 8–8 | 3–1 head-to-head | – | – |
| 7 | Western Michigan | 8–8 | 2–2 head-to-head | – | – |
| 8 | Ball State | 8–8 | 1–3 head-to-head | – | – |
| 9 | Ohio | 7–9 | – | – | – |
| 10 | Bowling Green | 6–10 | 1–0 head-to-head | – | – |
| 11 | Northern Illinois | 6–10 | 0–1 head-to-head | – | – |
| 12 | Toledo | 1–15 | – | – | – |
All-tournament team
- Armon BassettArmon BassettArmon Bassett is an American professional basketball free agent. Bassett played collegiately at Indiana University prior to transferring to Ohio University, where he led the team to the NCAA tournament...
(MVP) - Jimmy Conyers
- David KoolDavid KoolDavid Anderson Kool is a former collegiate basketball player for the Western Michigan Broncos men's basketball team. He is six feet three inches tall and weighs 200 lbs. Kool is WMU's all-time leading scorer and was named Mid-American Conference Player of the Year in his senior season...
- Carlos Medlock
- Chris McKnight