2026 MAC Tournament

[Zips1991]

1 minute ago, Reslife4Life said:

Buffalo and Umass split the season series, unsure how that tiebreaker goes. Very happy with Umass being 8 now

Yeah, I'd prefer to play Buffalo in the 1st round. Even though UMass seems to find ways to lose when they shouldn't. Generally that's bad coaching. 🤷‍♂️

[NWAkron]

https://bball.notnothing.net/mac.php?sport=mbb

 

MAC Tournament simulator.  Really anything can happen between 5-8

[pdt1420]

UMass enjoys fouling the hell out of people and the refs actually call it. My fear would be a game in the tourney where the refs decide to “let em play” or that they can’t call too many fouls for the entertainment value, and then UMass gets the benefit. 

[Illini Zip]

2 hours ago, pdt1420 said:

UMass enjoys fouling the hell out of people and the refs actually call it. My fear would be a game in the tourney where the refs decide to “let em play” or that they can’t call too many fouls for the entertainment value, and then UMass gets the benefit. 

💯 This.

[Zippy87]

UMass with a rough loss against Ball State. Bracket is updated. 

[kreed5120]

27 minutes ago, Zippy87 said:

UMass with a rough loss against Ball State. Bracket is updated. 

 

Things would have gotten really interesting had CMU not choked away a 7 point lead with ~3 minutes left.

[Westie]

Kent slops their way to a lot of wins. I do not like a potential semifinal game with them. Need to crush their confidence Friday night.

[Zippy87]

Because the MAC has 13 teams this year, UMass only has two games remaining. They're off March 6th, the final night of conference play. 

[Reslife4Life]

Is anyone officially eliminated yet? I thought ball state was out when we beat them but now they are back to 10th place. Buffalo plays at CMU this weekend, and if CMU wins then they are in position to make it to Cleveland. I really hope NIU loses this weekend and it can seal their fate that senior night will be their last ever MAC game

[MDZip]

As much as we all would have liked to have been Miami this year, the fact that they continue to do well reflects well on the conference and continues to get publicity. The CBS article I linked talks about their chances of making it as at large, but Akron gets a number of mentions. If we end up meeting them in the final of the tournament and beat them, that's going to reflect very well on the Zips. There will be a lot of talk about them knocking off Miami and making the NCAA tournament 4 out of 5 years. 

[Zips1991]

17 minutes ago, Reslife4Life said:

Is anyone officially eliminated yet? I thought ball state was out when we beat them but now they are back to 10th place. Buffalo plays at CMU this weekend, and if CMU wins then they are in position to make it to Cleveland. I really hope NIU loses this weekend and it can seal their fate that senior night will be their last ever MAC game

I don't think anyone is officially eliminated yet but some teams are basically done, especially EMU as they are the only team with 12 losses so far. They would need to win their last two games and have Buffalo lose their last three. The two teams do still play each other which helps EMU slightly.

[Illini Zip]

I think the undefeated record has to weigh on Miami at some point. 

[Reslife4Life]

6 minutes ago, Illini Zip said:

I think the undefeated record has to weigh on Miami at some point. 

I was convinced that them playing @EMU and @WMU back to back would haunt them, but they handled EMU pretty well honestly. I won't be surprised if they go undefeated. It just sucks we don't even really have a shot at a shared regular season championship with only 1 game for the tiebreaker

[kreed5120]

2 hours ago, Zippy87 said:

Because the MAC has 13 teams this year, UMass only has two games remaining. They're off March 6th, the final night of conference play. 

 

I was hoping CMU would pull it out against Kent for multiple reasons. Obviously to see Kent lose. The other is I would find it absolutely hilarious for UMass to miss the MAC after their fans crap on how much of a stepdown MAC basketball would be from the A10. It would be a humbling experience for them.

[Zips1991]

1 hour ago, Reslife4Life said:

I was convinced that them playing @EMU and @WMU back to back would haunt them, but they handled EMU pretty well honestly. I won't be surprised if they go undefeated. It just sucks we don't even really have a shot at a shared regular season championship with only 1 game for the tiebreaker

Technically, if both teams finish with one loss, it would be regular season co-champions but Miami would get the #1 seed.