2002 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament

2002 Mid-American Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2001–02
Teams 13
Site Gund Arena
Cleveland, Ohio
Champions Kent State (3rd title)
Winning coach Stan Heath (1st title)
MVP Trevor Huffman (Kent State)
2001–02 Mid-American Conference men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
East
Kent State† 17 – 1   .944     30 – 6   .833
Bowling Green 12 – 6   .667     24 – 9   .727
Ohio 11 – 7   .611     17 – 11   .607
Miami 9 – 9   .500     13 – 18   .419
Marshall 8 – 10   .444     15 – 15   .500
Buffalo 7 – 11   .389     12 – 18   .400
Akron 5 – 13   .278     10 – 21   .323
West
Ball State 12 – 6   .667     23 – 12   .657
Toledo 11 – 7   .611     16 – 14   .533
Western Michigan 10 – 8   .556     17 – 13   .567
Northern Illinois 8 – 10   .444     12 – 16   .429
Central Michigan 5 – 13   .278     9 – 19   .321
Eastern Michigan 2 – 16   .111     6 – 24   .200
† 2002 MAC Tournament winner
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2002 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament, a part of the 2001–02 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, took place at Gund Arena in Cleveland. Its winner received the Mid-American Conference's automatic bid to the 2002 NCAA Tournament. It was a single-elimination tournament with four rounds and the three 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. The Flashes won the tournament, their third MAC Tournament championship, claiming the title 70–59 over Bowling Green. The announced crowd of 14,106 set a conference record for highest-attended tournament game.

Tournament

Seeds

  1. Kent State
  2. Ball State
  3. Bowling Green
  4. Toledo
  5. Ohio
  6. Western Michigan
  7. Miami
  8. Marshall
  9. Northern Illinois
  10. Buffalo
  11. Akron
  12. Central Michigan
  13. Eastern Michigan

Bracket

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  First Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship
                                     
       
  1 Kent State 86  
    8 Marshall 70  
8 Marshall 97
9 Northern Illinois 93  
  1 Kent State 86  
  4 Toledo 61  
4 Toledo 89  
13 Eastern Michigan 53  
  4 Toledo 62
    12 Central Michigan 54  
5 Ohio 56
12 Central Michigan 65  
  1 Kent State 70
  3 Bowling Green 59
       
       
  2 Ball State 62
    7 Miami 50  
7 Miami 70
10 Buffalo 61  
  2 Ball State 57
  3 Bowling Green 69  
       
       
  3 Bowling Green 60
    11 Akron 58  
6 Western Michigan 83
11 Akron 90  

* – Denotes overtime period

Broadcast Information

Local announcers

Seed Teams Flagship station Play-by-play announcer Color analyst(s)
1 Kent State WNIR–FM 100.1 Bill Needle

References

  1. ↑ "MAC Tournament History" (PDF). 2009-10 MAC Men’s Basketball Record Book. Mid-American Conference. 2009-11-11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2009-12-14.
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