Year: | 2015 |
Conference: | MAC |
Division: | I |
Gender: | Men's |
Teams: | 12 |
1Stroundarena: | Campus sites |
Quarterarena: | Quicken Loans Arena |
Quartercity: | Cleveland, Ohio |
Semiarena: | Quicken Loans Arena |
Semicity: | Cleveland, Ohio |
Finalarena: | Quicken Loans Arena |
Finalcity: | Cleveland, Ohio |
Champions: | Buffalo |
Titlecount: | 1st |
Coach: | Bobby Hurley |
Coachcount: | 1st |
Mvp: | Xavier Ford |
Mvpteam: | Buffalo |
Television: | TWCSC (Ohio), ESPN2 |
The 2015 Mid-American Conference men's basketball tournament was a post-season men's basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference (MAC) 2014–15 college basketball season. Tournament first-round games were held on campus sites at the higher seed on March 9. The remaining rounds were held at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland between March 11–14. University at Buffalo won the tournament and received the conference's automatic bid into the 2015 NCAA tournament.
As with the recent tournaments, the top two seeds receive byes into the semifinals, with the three and four seeds receiving a bye to the quarterfinals.
Seed | School | Conference record | Division | Tiebreaker | Notes | |
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1 | Central Michigan | 12–6 | West | 2–1 vs. Buffalo, Kent State | Bye to semifinals | |
2 | Buffalo | 12–6 | East | 2–2 vs. CMU, Kent State | Bye to semifinals | |
3 | Kent State | 12–6 | East | 1–2 vs. CMU, Buffalo | Bye to quarterfinals | |
4 | Toledo | 11–7 | West | 1–0 vs. Bowling Green | Bye to quarterfinals | |
5 | Bowling Green | 11–7 | East | 0–1 vs. Toledo | ||
6 | Western Michigan | 10–8 | West | |||
7 | Akron | 9–9 | East | |||
8 | Eastern Michigan | 8–10 | West | 3–1 vs. Miami, NIU | ||
9 | Miami | 8–10 | East | 2–2 vs. EMU, NIU | ||
10 | Northern Illinois | 8–10 | West | 1–3 vs. EMU, Miami | ||
11 | Ohio | 5–13 | East | |||
12 | Ball State | 2–16 | West |
Game | Time* | Matchup# | Television | |
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First round – Monday, March 9 | ||||
1 |
| BCSN | ||
2 |
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3 |
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4 |
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Second round – Wednesday, March 11 | ||||
5 | 6:30 pm |
| TWCSC (Ohio) | |
6 | 9:00 pm |
| TWCSC (Ohio) | |
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 12 | ||||
7 | 6:30 pm |
| TWCSC (Ohio) | |
8 | 9:00 pm |
| TWCSC (Ohio) | |
Semifinals – Friday, March 13 | ||||
9 | 6:30 pm |
| TWCSC (Ohio) | |
10 | 9:00 pm |
| TWCSC (Ohio) | |
Championship – Saturday, March 14 | ||||
11 | 7:30 pm |
| ESPN2 | |
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Tournament MVP – Xavier Ford, Buffalo[1]
Player | Team | |
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J.D. Weatherspoon | Toledo | |
Xavier Ford | Buffalo | |
Shannon Evans | Buffalo | |
John Simons | Central Michigan | |
Braylon Rayson | Central Michigan |