The 2025 Mid-American Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference (MAC) held March 13âÂÂ15, 2025. The entire tournament was played at Rocket Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Akron defeated Bowling Green and Toledo in the first two rounds and then Miami in the final Nate Johnson of Akron was the MVP.
As with all MAC tournaments since 2021, only the top eight teams qualified. The winner of the tournament, Akron, received the MAC's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA tournament.
The 2025 MAC tournament was held at Rocket Arena for the 26th consecutive season. The venue, located in downtown Cleveland at One Center Court, is the home of the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and has a seating capacity for basketball of 19,432.
Eight out of the twelve 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.
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Tournament MVP â Nate Johnson<br /> Source