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2007 Mid-American Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2007 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2006–07
Teams 12
Site Quicken Loans Arena
Cleveland, Ohio
Champions Miami (4th title)
Winning coach Charlie Coles (3rd title)
MVP Tim Pollitz (Miami)
Top scorer Tim Pollitz (Miami)
(66 points)
Television Comcast Local, FSN Ohio, ESPN2
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2006–07 Mid-American Conference men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
East
Akron 13 3   .813     26 7   .788
Kent State 12 4   .750     21 11   .656
Miami 10 6   .625     18 15   .545
Ohio 9 7   .563     19 13   .594
Buffalo 4 12   .250     12 19   .387
Bowling Green 3 13   .188     13 18   .419
West
Toledo 14 2   .875     19 13   .594
Western Michigan 9 7   .563     16 16   .500
Central Michigan 7 9   .438     13 18   .419
Eastern Michigan 6 10   .375     13 19   .406
Ball State 5 11   .313     9 22   .290
Northern Illinois 4 12   .250     7 23   .233
2007 MAC Tournament winner
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2007 Mid-American Conference men's basketball tournament was won by No. 4 seed Miami University over No. 2 University of Akron 53–52 after a controversial finish. Miami guard Doug Penno banked in a three-point field goal with no time left on the clock to give Miami an apparent one-point victory. However, after a ten-minute delay, officials put 0.6 seconds back on the clock because the game clock did not start properly when Miami rebounded an Akron missed free throw. Because of the win in the conference tournament final, Miami was awarded the Mid-American Conference's automatic berth into the 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.

The tournament took place from March 7–10 at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. This was the first year that the entire tournament was held in Cleveland. In previous tournaments the first-round games were played at the higher seeds' home courts. Comcast Local and FSN Ohio televised the Quarterfinals and Semifinals while ESPN2 broadcast the tournament championship.

Each of the 12 men's basketball teams in the MAC received a berth in the conference tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record with the following tie-breakers:

The top four seeds received byes into the Quarterfinals. The winners of each division were awarded the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds. The team with the best record of the two received the No. 1 seed.

The following were the seeds for the conference tournament, along with conference record.

* Received No. 5 seed based on 78–73 head-to-head victory over Western Michigan on February 6.
** Received No. 10 seed based on 80–74 head-to-head victory over Northern Illinois on February 3.


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