2017 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2017 Mid-American Conference men's basketball tournament is a post-season basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference. 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.
Seeds
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.| Seed | School | Conference record | Division | Tiebreaker 1 | Tiebreaker 2 | Tiebreaker 3 |
| 1 | Akron | 14–4 | East | |||
| 2 | Ohio | 11–7 | East | 3–2 vs. tied teams | 1–1 vs. Buffalo | .500 vs. No. 1 Akron |
| 3 | Buffalo | 11–7 | East | 3–2 vs. tied teams | 1–1 vs. Ohio | .000 vs. No. 1 Akron |
| 4 | Ball State | 11–7 | West | 2–3 vs. tied teams | 1–1 vs. WMU | 9–1 vs. West Division |
| 5 | Western Michigan | 11–7 | West | 2–3 vs. tied teams | 1–1 vs. BSU | 7–3 vs. West Division |
| 6 | Kent State | 10–8 | East | |||
| 7 | Toledo | 9–9 | West | |||
| 8 | Eastern Michigan | 7–11 | West | 2–1 vs. tied teams | 1–1 vs. NIU | .000 vs. No. 1 Akron,.500 vs. No. 2 Ohio |
| 9 | Northern Illinois | 7–11 | West | 2–1 vs. tied teams | 1–1 vs. EMU | .000 vs. No. 1 Akron,.000 vs. No. 2 Ohio |
| 10 | Bowling Green | 7–11 | East | 0–2 vs. tied teams | ||
| 11 | Central Michigan | 6–12 | West | |||
| 12 | Miami | 4–14 | East |