2006 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament

2006 Mid-American Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2005–06
Teams	12
Site	Quicken Loans Arena Cleveland, Ohio
Champions	Kent State (4th title)
Winning coach	Jim Christian (2nd title)
MVP	Kevin Warzynski Kent State
Post-Mid-American Conference tournament(s)	2006 NIT, 2006 NCAA
Mid-American Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments «2005  2007»

The 2006 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament, a part of the 2005-06 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, took place from March 6–March 11, 2006 at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. The March 6 first round games were held at the higher seeds home arenas. Its winner received the Mid-American Conference's automatic bid to the 2006 NCAA Tournament. It is a single-elimination tournament with four rounds and the four highest seeds received byes in the first round. All MAC teams were invited to participate. Kent State, the MAC regular season winner, received the number one seed in the tournament.

Contents 1 Before the tournament 1.1 Standings 2 Tournament 2.1 Seeding 2.2 Bracket 2.3 First Round 2.4 Quarterfinals 2.5 Semi-finals 2.6 Finals 3 References

Before the tournament

Standings

2005–06 MAC men's basketball standings[ref 1]
	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	PCT	W	L	PCT
MAC East
Kent State	15		3		.833			25		9		.735
Akron	14		4		.778			23		10		.697
Miami	14		4		.778			18		11		.621
Ohio	10		8		.556			19		13		.594
Buffalo	8		10		.444			19		13		.594
Bowling Green	5		13		.278			9		21		.300
MAC West
Northern Illinois	12		6		.667			17		11		.607
Toledo	10		8		.556			20		11		.645
Western Michigan	10		8		.556			14		17		.452
Ball State	6		12		.333			10		18		.357
Eastern Michigan	3		15		.167			7		21		.250
Central Michigan	1		17		.056			4		24		.143

Tournament

Seeding

The top two seeds of the tournament were given to division winners. Since Kent State had a better record than Northern Illinois, they were given the #1 seed, and the Huskies were given the #2 seed. The remainder of the bracket was determined by overall record. For the #3 seed, Akron and Miami were tied with a 14–4 conference record. They had also split their two regular season matches^{[ref 2][ref 3]}. The next tiebreaker is to determine the teams performance against ranked teams in order. Akron was able to win one game against the Golden Flashes^{[ref 4]} while Miami was unable to win one, so Akron was given the fourth seed and Miami was given the final bye in the tournament. The #5 seed was determined through a three-way tie between Ohio, Toledo, and Western Michigan. Ohio had won its matches against Western Michigan^{[ref 5]} and Toledo^{[ref 6]} so they were given the #5 seed. Since Central Michigan was able to defeat Kent State in the regular season and Toledo was not, they were given the #6 seed.^{[ref 7]} Buffalo was seven games behind Kent State and had earned the eighth seed. Ball State was the #9 seed and the final East Division team, Bowling Green was the #10 seed. The final two teams, Eastern Michigan and Central Michigan were given the eleventh and twelfth seeds, respectively.

Bracket

	First Round March 6, 2006					Quarterfinals March 9, 2006					Semifinals March 10, 2006					Championship March 11, 2006
						1	Kent State	76
						8	Buffalo	67
	8	Buffalo	80
	9	Ball State	72
											1	Kent State	72
										5	Ohio	59
						4	Miami	58
						5	Ohio	73
	5	Ohio	82
	12	Central Michigan	53
																1	Kent State	71
																7	Toledo	66
						2	Northern Illinois	77
						7	Toledo	78
	7	Toledo	77
	10	Bowling Green	52
											7	Toledo	77
										3	Akron	69
						3	Akron	72
						6	Western Michigan	57
	6	Western Michigan	60
	11	Eastern Michigan	55

First Round

Team[ref 8] 1st 2nd Final Central Michigan 50 32 82 Ohio 32 21 53	Team[ref 9] 1st 2nd Final Western Michigan 33 22 55 Eastern Michigan 25 35 60
Team[ref 10] 1st 2nd Final Toledo 34 43 77 Bowling Green 21 31 52	Team[ref 11] 1st 2nd Final Buffalo 44 36 80 Ball State 28 44 72

Quarterfinals

Team[ref 12] 1st 2nd Final Toledo 39 39 78 Northern Illinois 23 54 77	Team[ref 13] 1st 2nd Final Akron 31 41 72 Western Michigan 28 29 57
Team[ref 14] 1st 2nd Final Kent State 35 41 76 Buffalo 27 40 67	Team[ref 15] 1st 2nd Final Ohio 40 33 73 Miami 32 26 58

Semi-finals

Team[ref 16] 1st 2nd Final Kent State 33 39 72 Ohio 26 33 59

Team[ref 17] 1st 2nd Final Toledo 34 43 77 Akron 40 29 69

Finals

Team[ref 18]	1st	2nd	Final
Kent State	32	39	71
Toledo	21	45	66

References

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