2025 MAC men's basketball tournament explained

Year:2025
Conference:MAC
Division:I
Gender:Men's
Teams:8
Arena:Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse
City:Cleveland, Ohio
Television:ESPN+, CBSSN, ESPN2

The 2025 Mid-American Conference men's basketball tournament will be the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference (MAC) held March 13–15, 2025.[1] The entire tournament will be played at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, Ohio.[2]

Format

As with the 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 tournaments, only the top eight teams will. The winner of the tournament received the MAC's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA tournament.[3]

Venue

The 2025 MAC tournament will be held at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse for the 26th consecutive season. The venue, located in downtown Cleveland at One Center Court, is the home of the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and has a seating capacity for basketball of 19,432.[4] [5]

Seeds

Eight out of the 12 MAC teams will qualify for the tournament. Teams will be seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.[6]

SeedSchoolConference
record
Tiebreaker
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
DNQ
DNQ
DNQ
DNQ

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2024-25 MAC Championships. August 18, 2024. Mid-American Conference.
  2. Web site: MAC Tournament staying in downtown Cleveland through 2030. Cleveland 19 News. en. June 9, 2022.
  3. Web site: MAC eliminating and scaling back postseason tournaments . AP . May 12, 2020 . May 14, 2023.
  4. Web site: About. January 11, 2022. Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse.
  5. Web site: A-Z Guide. January 11, 2022. Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse.
  6. Web site: Tie-Breaker Procedures. February 1, 2022. Mid-American Conference.