| Year: | 2009 |
| Conference: | MAC |
| Division: | I |
| Gender: | Women's |
| Teams: | 12 |
| Arena: | Quicken Loans Arena |
| City: | Cleveland, Ohio |
| Champions: | Ball State |
| Coach: | Kelly Packard |
| Mvp: | Tracy Pontius |
| Mvpteam: | Bowling Green |
The 2009 Mid-American Conference women's basketball tournament was the post-season basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference (MAC) 2008–2009 season. The winner of the tournament received the MAC's automatic bid into the 2009 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. Regular season west division winner Ball State won the tournament over east division winner Bowling Green.[1] Tracy Pontius was the tournament MVP.[2]
Each of the 12 women's basketball teams in the MAC receive a berth in the conference tournament. Teams are seeded per division by conference record with the following tie-breakers:[3]
Note: Once a three-team tie has been reduced to two teams, the two-team tiebreakers go in effect. If there are multiple ties, the ties are broken from the top down (e.g. a tie for #3 will be broken before a tie for #5).
The top two seeds in each division receive byes into the Quarterfinals. All rounds were held at Quicken Loans Arena.
Tournament MVP – Tracy Pontius, Bowling Green[4]
| Player | Team | |
|---|---|---|
| Emily Maggert | Ball State | |
| Kourtney Brown | Buffalo | |
| Tanika Mays | Toledo | |
| Niki McCoy | Bowling Green | |
| Tracy Pontius | Bowling Green |