2006 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament

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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)
Mid-American Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments
«2005  2007»
2005–06 Mid-American Conference men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
East
Kent State† 15 – 3   .833     24 – 8   .750
Akron 14 – 4   .778     23 – 9   .719
Miami 14 – 4   .778     18 – 12   .600
Ohio 10 – 8   .556     19 – 11   .633
Buffalo 8 – 10   .444     19 – 13   .594
Bowling Green 5 – 13   .278     9 – 21   .300
West
Northern Illinois 12 – 6   .667     17 – 11   .607
Toledo 10 – 8   .556     20 – 10   .667
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
† 2006 MAC Tournament winner
Rankings from AP Poll

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.

Tournament

Seeds

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 1][ref 2] 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 3] 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 4] and Toledo[ref 5] 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 6] 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 7] 1st 2nd Final
Central Michigan 50 32 82
Ohio 32 21 53
Team[ref 8] 1st 2nd Final
Western Michigan 33 22 55
Eastern Michigan 25 35 60
Team[ref 9] 1st 2nd Final
Toledo 34 43 77
Bowling Green 21 31 52
Team[ref 10] 1st 2nd Final
Buffalo 44 36 80
Ball State 28 44 72

Quarterfinals

Team[ref 11] 1st 2nd Final
Toledo 39 39 78
Northern Illinois 23 54 77
Team[ref 12] 1st 2nd Final
Akron 31 41 72
Western Michigan 28 29 57
Team[ref 13] 1st 2nd Final
Kent State 35 41 76
Buffalo 27 40 67
Team[ref 14] 1st 2nd Final
Ohio 40 33 73
Miami 32 26 58

Semi-finals

Team[ref 15] 1st 2nd Final
Kent State 33 39 72
Ohio 26 33 59
Team[ref 16] 1st 2nd Final
Toledo 34 43 77
Akron 40 29 69

Finals

Team[ref 17] 1st 2nd Final
Kent State 32 39 71
Toledo 21 45 66

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