The 2026 MAC women's basketball tournament was the postseason basketball tournament for the 2025âÂÂ26 college basketball season in the Mid-American Conference (MAC). The entire tournament was played at Rocket Arena, in Cleveland, Ohio on March 11 and 13âÂÂ14, 2026.
Miami defeated in order Kent State, Ohio, and Toledo to win the MAC tournament title, it was their first since 2008, to advance to the 2026 NCAA tournament. Amber Scalia of Miami was named the tournament MVP.
As with all MAC tournaments that have been held since 2021, only the top eight teams qualified. The winner of the tournament will receive the MAC's automatic bid to the 2026 NCAA tournament.
The 2026 MAC tournament was at Rocket Arena for the 26th consecutive season. The venue is also the home of the Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA, has a capacity for basketball of 19,432, and is located in downtown Cleveland at One Center Court.
Eight out of the thirteen MAC teams will qualified for the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference games that got played, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
NOTE: The Mid-American Conference men's and women's basketball tournaments are run simultaneously as one event and, as a result, the sessions are numbered consecutively (1, 3 and 5 are women's; 2, 4 and 6 are men's). <br>Source:
Tournament MVP â Amber Scalia
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2026 MAC men's basketball tournament