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. The entire tournament was held at

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between March 9 and 12. The MAC Women's Tournament champion received the conference's automatic bid into the 2022 NCAA tournament. Second seeded Buffalo won the tournament with a 79–75 win over . Dyaisha Fair was named the tournament MVP.

Format

As with the 2021 MAC women's basketball tournament only the top 8 finishing teams qualify and all games were played on a neutral court.

Venue

The 2022 MAC tournament was held at

for the 22nd consecutive season. The venue is the home of the

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, has a capacity for basketball of 19,432, and is located in downtown Cleveland at One Center Court.

Seeds

8 out of the 12 MAC teams will qualify for the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

Schedule

* denotes overtime period

Bracket

All-Tournament team

Tournament MVP – Dyaisha Fair, ''Buffalo''

References

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