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2017 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament

2017 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2016–17
Teams 12
Site Quicken Loans Arena
Cleveland, Ohio
First round site Campus sites
Champions Kent State (6th title)
Winning coach Rob Senderoff (1st title)
MVP Jaylin Walker (Kent State)
Attendance 10,376
Television BCSN, CBSSN, ESPN2
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2016–17 Mid-American Conference men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
East
Akron 14 4   .778     27 9   .750
Ohio 11 7   .611     20 11   .645
Buffalo 11 7   .611     17 15   .531
Kent State 10 8   .556     22 14   .611
Bowling Green 7 11   .389     13 19   .406
Miami (OH) 4 14   .222     11 21   .344
West
Ball State 11 7   .611     21 13   .618
Western Michigan 11 7   .611     16 16   .500
Toledo 9 9   .500     17 17   .500
Eastern Michigan 7 11   .389     16 17   .485
Northern Illinois 7 11   .389     15 17   .469
Central Michigan 6 12   .333     16 16   .500
2017 MAC Tournament winner

The 2017 Mid-American Conference men's basketball tournament is a post-season basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference (MAC). Tournament first round games were held on campus sites at the higher seed on March 6. The remaining rounds here held at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio between March 9–11, 2017. The sixth-seeded Kent State Golden Flashes won the tournament and the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament with a 70–65 win over the top-seeded Akron Zips. It is Kent State's sixth tournament title overall and first since 2008.

All 12 MAC teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The top four teams received a bye to quarterfinals.

* denotes overtime period


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