Back to the Mid-American Newsfeed

MAC Announces Basketball Tournament & Automatic Qualifier Policy

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Mid-American Conference (MAC) announced bracket, seeding and automatic qualifier policies for the upcoming MAC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournament (March 10-13) at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. Conference membership has approved the following policies:

Automatic Qualifier

  • The Automatic Qualifier for the Conference will be awarded to the team that wins the Conference tournament championship.
  • If unable to crown a tournament champion, the AQ will go to the regular season champion as determined by Conference regular season record. In case of a tie between two or more teams, the approved tiebreaker will be used.