The 2007 Mid-American Conference men's basketball tournament was the post-season men's basketball tournament for the

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(MAC) 2006–2007 season. It was won by No. 4 seed

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over No. 2

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53–52 after a controversial finish. Miami guard Doug Penno banked in a three-point field goal with no time left on the clock to give Miami an apparent one-point victory. However, after a ten-minute delay, officials put 0.6 seconds back on the clock because the game clock did not start properly when Miami rebounded an Akron missed

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. Because of the win in the conference tournament final, Miami was awarded the MAC's automatic berth into the

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. The tournament took place from March 7–10 at

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. This was the first year that the entire tournament was held in Cleveland. In previous tournaments the first-round games were played at the higher seeds' home courts. Comcast Local and

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televised the Quarterfinals and Semifinals while ESPN2 broadcast the tournament championship.

All-tournament team

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, Akron * Jeremiah Wood, Akron * Giordan Watson, Central Michigan * Tim Pollitz, Miami (Tournament MVP) *

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, Miami

Format

Each of the 12 men's basketball teams in the MAC received a berth in the conference tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record with the following tie-breakers: * Head-to-head competition * Winning percentage vs. ranked conference teams (top to bottom, regardless of division, vs. common opponents regardless of the number of times played) * Coin flip The top four seeds received byes into the Quarterfinals. The winners of each division were awarded the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds. The team with the best record of the two received the No. 1 seed.

Seeding

The following were the seeds for the conference tournament, along with conference record. #

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, 14–2 # Akron, 13–3 #

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, 12–4 #

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, 10–6 #

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, 9–7 * # Western Michigan, 9–7 # Central Michigan, 7–9 # Eastern Michigan, 6–10 #

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, 5–11 # Buffalo, 4–12 ** # Northern Illinois, 4–12 # Bowling Green, 3–13 ''* Received No. 5 seed based on 78–73 head-to-head victory over Western Michigan on February 6.''
''** Received No. 10 seed based on 80–74 head-to-head victory over Northern Illinois on February 3.''

Bracket

External links

MAC Tournament Central

References

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