2018 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament


The 2018 Mid-American Conference men's basketball tournament was the post-season men's basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference. Tournament first-round games were held on campus sites at the higher seed on March 5. The remaining rounds were held at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio between March 8–10, 2018. Regular-season champion Buffalo defeated Toledo in the championship game to win the tournament and receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

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 will receive a bye to quarterfinals.
SeedSchoolConference
record		DivisionTiebreaker
1Buffalo15–3East
2Toledo13–5West
3Eastern Michigan11–7West
4Ball State10–8West
5Kent State9–9East1–0 vs. WMU
6Western Michigan9–9West0–1 vs. KSU
7Miami 8–10East
8Central Michigan7–11West3–0 vs. tied teams
9Bowling Green7–11East1–2 vs. tied teams
10Ohio7–11East1–3 vs. tied teams
11Akron6–12East1–0 vs. NIU
12Northern Illinois6–12West0–1 vs. Akron

Schedule

Bracket

* denotes overtime period