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2002 Mid-American Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2002 Mid-American Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2001–02
Teams 13
Site Gund Arena
Cleveland, Ohio
Champions Kent State (3rd title)
Winning coach Stan Heath (1st title)
MVP Trevor Huffman (Kent State)
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2001–02 Mid-American Conference men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
East
Kent State 17 1   .944     30 6   .833
Bowling Green 12 6   .667     24 9   .727
Ohio 11 7   .611     17 11   .607
Miami 9 9   .500     13 18   .419
Marshall 8 10   .444     15 15   .500
Buffalo 7 11   .389     12 18   .400
Akron 5 13   .278     10 21   .323
West
Ball State 12 6   .667     23 12   .657
Toledo 11 7   .611     16 14   .533
Western Michigan 10 8   .556     17 13   .567
Northern Illinois 8 10   .444     12 16   .429
Central Michigan 5 13   .278     9 19   .321
Eastern Michigan 2 16   .111     6 24   .200
2002 MAC Tournament winner
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2002 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament, a part of the 2001–02 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, took place at Gund Arena in Cleveland. Its winner received the Mid-American Conference's automatic bid to the 2002 NCAA Tournament. It was a single-elimination tournament with four rounds and the three highest seeds received byes in the first round. All MAC teams were invited to participate. Kent State, the MAC regular season winner, received the number one seed in the tournament. The Flashes won the tournament, their third MAC Tournament championship, claiming the title 70–59 over Bowling Green. The announced crowd of 14,106 set a conference record for highest-attended tournament game.

* – Denotes overtime period


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