| Year: | 2010 |
| Conference: | MAC |
| Division: | I |
| Gender: | Men's |
| Teams: | 12 |
| Arena: | Quicken Loans Arena |
| City: | Cleveland, Ohio |
| Champions: | Ohio Bobcats |
| Titlecount: | 5th |
| Coach: | John Groce |
| Coachcount: | 1st |
| Mvp: | Armon Bassett |
| Mvpteam: | Ohio |
| Topscorer: | Armon Bassett |
| Topscorerteam: | Ohio |
| Points: | 116 |
| Television: | FSN Ohio, FSN Detroit, and ESPN2 |
The 2010 Mid-American Conference men's basketball tournament was the post-season men's basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference (MAC) 2009–2010 season. Ninth-seeded Ohio won the tournament received the MAC's automatic bid into the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship tournament. There they defeated Georgetown 97 - 83 before losing to Tennessee in the second round.[1] [2] Armon Bassett of Ohio was named the tournament MVP.[3]
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:
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.[4]
* Overtime
| Seed | Team | Record | Tiebreaker #1 | Tiebreaker #2 | Tiebreaker #3 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kent State | align=center | 13–3 | align=center | – | align=center | – | align=center | – | |
| 2 | Central Michigan | align=center | 9–7 | align=center | Division champ | align=center | – | align=center | – | |
| 3 | Akron | align=center | 12–4 | align=center | – | align=center | – | align=center | – | |
| 4 | Miami | align=center | 9–7 | align=center | 1–1 head-to-head | align=center | 1–1 vs. #1 KSU | align=center | 1–1 vs. #2 Akron | |
| 5 | Buffalo | align=center | 9–7 | align=center | 1–1 head-to-head | align=center | 1–1 vs. #1 KSU | align=center | 0–2 vs. #2 Akron | |
| 6 | Eastern Michigan | align=center | 8–8 | align=center | 3–1 head-to-head | align=center | – | align=center | – | |
| 7 | Western Michigan | align=center | 8–8 | align=center | 2–2 head-to-head | align=center | – | align=center | – | |
| 8 | Ball State | align=center | 8–8 | align=center | 1–3 head-to-head | align=center | – | align=center | – | |
| 9 | Ohio | align=center | 7–9 | align=center | – | align=center | – | align=center | – | |
| 10 | Bowling Green | align=center | 6–10 | align=center | 1–0 head-to-head | align=center | – | align=center | – | |
| 11 | Northern Illinois | align=center | 6–10 | align=center | 0–1 head-to-head | align=center | – | align=center | – | |
| 12 | Toledo | align=center | 1–15 | align=center | – | align=center | – | align=center | – |