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2009 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament

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Classification
  
Division I

Teams
  
12

Season
  
2008–09

Champions
  
Akron Zips (1st title)

Site
  
Quicken Loans Arena Cleveland, Ohio

Winning coach
  
Keith Dambrot (1st title)

The 2009 Mid-American Conference men's basketball tournament is the post-season basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference (MAC) 2008–2009 season. The winner of the tournament receives the MAC's automatic bid into the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship tournament.

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Format

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:

  • Head-to-head competition
  • Winning percentage vs. ranked conference teams (top to bottom, regardless of division, vs. common opponents regardless of the number of times played)
  • Coin flip

    • 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.

    * Overtime

    West Division

    References

    2009 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament Wikipedia
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