| Year: | 1996 |
| Conference: | Midwestern Collegiate Conference |
| Division: | I |
| Gender: | Men's |
| Teams: | 8[1] |
| Arena: | Nutter Center |
| City: | Dayton, Ohio |
| Champions: | Northern Illinois |
| Coach: | Brian Hammel |
| Mvp: | Chris Coleman[2] |
| Mvpteam: | Northern Illinois |
| Different Next: | 1997 |
The 1996 Midwestern Collegiate Conference men's basketball tournament took place at the end of the 1995–96 regular season. The tournament was hosted by Wright State.
All Midwestern Collegiate Conference schools played in the tournament. Teams were seeded by 1995–96 Midwestern Collegiate Conference season record, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.