Английская Википедия:2021 MAC men's basketball tournament

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The 2021 Mid-American Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference (MAC). Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the entire tournament was held at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, in Cleveland, Ohio, from March 11–13, 2021. For the 2021 tournament, only the top eight teams qualified. The winner of the tournament received the MAC's automatic bid to the 2021 NCAA tournament. Ohio defeated Buffalo in the final. Jason Preston of Ohio was named the tournament MVP. In the NCAA tournament Ohio defeated No. 4-seeded Virginia in the First Round before falling to No. 5-seeded Creighton in the Second Round.

Seeds

8 out of the 12 MAC teams qualified for the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

Seed	School	Conference record	Tiebreaker
1	Toledo	15–4
2	Buffalo	12–5
3	Akron	12–6	2–0 vs. KSU
4	Kent State	12–6	0–2 vs. Akron
5	Ohio	9–5
6	Bowling Green	10–8
7	Miami (OH)	9–8
8	Ball State	8–9
DNQ	Western Michigan	4–12
DNQ	Eastern Michigan	3–11
DNQ	Central Michigan	3–13
DNQ	Northern Illinois	2–12

Schedule

Game	Time	Matchup	Score	Television
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 11 – Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, Cleveland, OH
1	11:00 am	No. 8 Ball State vs. No. 1 Toledo	89–91OT	ESPN+
2	2:05 pm	No. 5 Ohio vs. No. 4 Kent State	85–63
3	4:30 pm	No. 7 Miami (OH) vs. No. 2 Buffalo	63–74
4	7:00 pm	No. 6 Bowling Green vs. No. 3 Akron	67–74
Semifinals – Friday, March 12 – Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, Cleveland, OH
5	5:00 pm	No. 5 Ohio vs. No. 1 Toledo	87–80	CBSSN
6	approx. 7:30 pm	No. 3 Akron vs. No. 2 Buffalo	74–81OT
Championship – Saturday, March 13 – Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, Cleveland, OH
7	7:30 pm	No. 5 Ohio vs. No. 2 Buffalo	84–69	ESPN2
Game times in ET. Rankings denote tournament seed

Bracket

* denotes overtime period

All-Tournament Team

Tournament MVP – Jason Preston, Ohio

Player	Team
Marreon Jackson	Toledo
Josh Mballa	Buffalo
Jeenathan Williams	Buffalo
Jason Preston	Ohio
Ben Vander Plas	Ohio