On Monday, January 25th many different credited sports websites and bracketology experts released their latest bracket. Check out below where various experts included the MAC in their brackets. It should be noted these projections do not account the outcomes of Tuesday nights contests.
- Lunardi listed Northern Illinois as the team to receive the MAC's automatic bid. His latest projections have Northern Illinois in the South Region as a 15 seed. That projection sets up a match-up with the 2 seed Xavier Musketeers in St. Louis. The winner of that game would play the winner of Dayton and Valparaiso.