2024–25 Mid-American Conference women's basketball season explained

2024–25 Mid-American Conference women's basketball season
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League:NCAA Division I
Sport:Basketball
Pixels:200px
No Of Teams:12
Season:Regular season
Season Champ Name:Champions
Mvp Link:Mid-American Conference women's Basketball Player of the Year
Playoffs:2025 MAC tournament
Playoffs Link:2025 MAC women's basketball tournament
Finals:Tournament
Finals Link:2025 MAC women's basketball tournament
Finals Mvp Link:Mid-American Conference women's basketball tournament
Seasonslist:List of Mid-American women's basketball seasons
Seasonslistnames:Mid-American women's basketball
Prevseason Year:2023–24
Nextseason Year:2025–26

The 2024–25 Mid-American Conference women's basketball season will be the season for Mid-American Conference women's basketball teams. It will begin with practices in October 2024, followed by the start of the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season in November. Conference play will begin in January 2024 and conclude in March 2024. The 2025 MAC tournament will be held at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, Ohio for the 25th consecutive season.[1] This will be the conference's last season with 12 members as it will see its first change in membership since 2005 with the addition of UMass[2]

Head coaches

Coaching changes

Eastern Michigan

On December 11, 2023 Eastern Michigan fired Fred Castro after a 1–7 start.[3] Ke'Sha Blanton finished the season as interim coach. On March 28, 2024, Canisius head coach Sahar Nusseibeh was named as the next head coach.[4]

Toledo

On April 5, 2024, Tricia Cullop left the head coaching position at Toledo after winning three constitutive MAC coach of the year honors to become the head coach at Miami (FL).[5] On April 9, 2024, Monmouth head coach Ginny Boggess was named the new head coach.[6]

Coaches

TeamHead coachPrevious jobYears at schoolOverall recordSchool recordMAC recordMAC titlesMAC Tournament titlesNCAA TournamentsNCAA Final FoursNCAA Championships
style=;"AkronRyan GenslerIllinois (Asst.)200000
style=Ball StateBrady Sallee

Notes and References

  1. Web site: MAC Tournament staying in downtown Cleveland through 2030. Cleveland 19 News. Tony. Zarrella. en. 2022-05-26.
  2. Web site: UMass will join Mid-American Conference as a full sports member in 2025, MAC commissioner says. APNews. Tom. Withers. en. 2024-04-20. February 27, 2024.
  3. Web site: EMU fires women's basketball coach, names Blanton interim coach. Detroit News. Tony. Paul. en.
  4. Web site: EMU women's basketball lands rising star Sahar Nusseibeh as new head coach. 2024-05-15. 2024-03-28. Tony. Paul. Detroit News. en.
  5. Web site: University of Miami Hires Tricia Cullop as Head Women’s Basketball Coach . University of Miami Athletics . 5 April 2024 . 5 April 2024.
  6. Web site: Toledo hires new women’s basketball coach. 2024-05-15. 2024-04-09. WGTV 13. en.