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(MAC). The tournament's first-round games were held on campus sites at the higher seed on March 9. The remaining rounds were to be held at

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on March 12, 13, and 14, 2020 and the champion was to receive the MAC's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Just prior to the scheduled game on March 12 between top-seeded

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and eighth-seeded

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, the conference announced that the remainder of the tournament, and the remainder of the

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, were canceled in response to concerns over the

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Seeds

All 12 MAC teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The top four teams received a bye to quarterfinals.

Schedule

Bracket

* denotes overtime period

References

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Seeds

Schedule

Bracket

See also

References