The 2021 Mid-American Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the

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(MAC). Due to the ongoing

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, the entire tournament was held at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, in

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, 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.

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defeated Buffalo in the final.

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of Ohio was named the tournament MVP. In the NCAA tournament Ohio defeated No. 4-seeded

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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.

Schedule

Bracket

* denotes overtime period

All-Tournament Team

Tournament MVP –

, ''Ohio''

References

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