2002 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament


The 2002 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament, a part of the 2001–02 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, took place at Gund Arena in Cleveland. Its winner received the Mid-American Conference's automatic bid to the 2002 NCAA Tournament. It was a single-elimination tournament with four rounds and the three 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. The Flashes won the tournament, their third MAC Tournament championship, claiming the title 70–59 over Bowling Green. The announced crowd of 14,106 set a conference record for highest-attended tournament game.

Tournament

Seeds

  1. Kent State
  2. Ball State
  3. Bowling Green
  4. Toledo
  5. Ohio
  6. Western Michigan
  7. Miami
  8. Marshall
  9. Northern Illinois
  10. Buffalo
  11. Akron
  12. Central Michigan
  13. Eastern Michigan

    Bracket

* – Denotes overtime period

First Round summary

Quarterfinal summary

Semifinal summary

Championship summary

Broadcast Information

ESPN2 announcers

Regional TV announcers

Local announcers