2019 Horizon League men's basketball tournament explained

Year:	2019
Conference:	Horizon League
Division:	I
Gender:	Men's
Teams:	8
Arena:	Campus sites (Quarterfinals) Little Caesars Arena (Semifinals and Finals)
City:	Detroit, Michigan
Champions:	Northern Kentucky
Titlecount:	2nd
Coach:	John Brannen
Coachcount:	2nd
Mvp:	Drew McDonald
Mvpteam:	Northern Kentucky
Television:	ESPN/ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN+

The 2019 Horizon League men's basketball tournament (also known as Motor City Madness) was the final event of the 2018–19 men's basketball season of the Horizon League. It began on March 5, 2019, and ended on March 12; first-round games were played at the home courts of the top four teams in regular-season league play, with all remaining games at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.

Northern Kentucky, which shared the regular-season conference title with Wright State, won the tournament and thus received the conference's automatic berth into the NCAA tournament.

Seeds

The top 8 teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with the following tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records:^[1]

Head-to-head record against the other team(s) involved in the tie.
Record against the highest-placed team in the conference table not involved in the tie. If still tied, proceed down the conference standings.
- If two or more teams are tied for a league placement, they are considered a single entry for tiebreaking purposes, with collective records against said teams considered.
If three or more teams are involved in a tie for a given seed, the above procedure is followed until the tie is either broken, or reduced to a two-team tie. If reduced to a two-team tie, the procedure restarts, this time with only the surviving teams analyzed.
If teams remain tied after all of the following, the team with the higher NET rating at the end of the regular season, as published by the NCAA immediately after the end of the Horizon regular season, receives the higher seed.

Seed	School	Conference	Tiebreaker 1	Tiebreaker 2
align=center	1	Wright State	align=center	13–5	align=center	1–1 vs. NKU	align=center	2–0 vs. Oakland
align=center	2	Northern Kentucky	align=center	13–5	align=center	1–1 vs. Wright	align=center	1–1 vs. Oakland
align=center	3	Oakland	align=center	11–7
align=center	4	Green Bay	align=center	10–8	align=center	2–0 vs. UIC
align=center	5	UIC	align=center	10–8	align=center	0–2 vs. Green Bay
align=center	6	Youngstown State	align=center	8–10	align=center	3–1 vs. UDM/IUPUI
align=center	7	Detroit Mercy	align=center	8–10	align=center	2–2 vs. IUPUI/YSU
align=center	8	IUPUI	align=center	8–10	align=center	1–3 vs. UDM/YSU
DNQ	Cleveland State	5–13
DNQ	Milwaukee	4–14

Notes

Schedule

Game	Time^[2]	Matchup	Score	Television
Quarterfinals – Tuesday, March 5
align=center	1	8:00 pm	align=center	No. 8 IUPUI at No. 1 Wright State	align=center	56–71	ESPN+
align=center	2	8:00 pm	align=center	No. 5 UIC at No. 4 Green Bay	align=center	77–82	ESPN+
Quarterfinals – Wednesday, March 6
align=center	3	7:00 pm	align=center	No. 6 Youngstown State at No. 3 Oakland	align=center	84–88	ESPN+
align=center	4	7:00 pm	align=center	No. 7 Detroit Mercy at No. 2 Northern Kentucky	align=center	88–99	ESPN+
Semifinals – Monday, March 11
align=center	5	7:00 pm	align=center	No. 4 Green Bay vs. No. 1 Wright State	align=center	54–66	ESPNU
align=center	6	9:30 pm	align=center	No.3 Oakland vs. No. 2 Northern Kentucky	align=center	63–64	ESPNU
Finals – Tuesday, March 12
align=center	7	7:00 pm	align=center	No. 2 Northern Kentucky vs. No. 1 Wright State	align=center	77–66	ESPN
All game times in Eastern Time Zone. Rankings denote tournament seed

Notes and References

Web site: Basketball Tiebreaker Procedures . Horizon League . March 12, 2019.
Web site: MOTOR CITY MADNESS - Horizon League.