The 2000 MAC men's basketball tournament, a part of the

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, took place at

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to determine the

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to the

2000 NCAA tournament The 2000 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 16, 2000, and ended with the champion ...

. The 2000 tournament was the first MAC Tournament to be held in Cleveland after a four-year stint in

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, and also marked the first year all conference members were invited to participate after having previously limited participation to the top eight teams in the conference standings. It was a

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with four rounds and the three highest seeds received first-round

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, the MAC regular season winner, received the number one seed in the tournament. MAC West Division champion

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won the tournament, their 7th conference tournament title and first since 1995.

Tournament

Seeds

# Bowling Green # Ball State # Kent State # Akron # Marshall # Ohio # Toledo # Eastern Michigan # Miami # Northern Illinois # Western Michigan # Buffalo # Central Michigan

Bracket

''* – Denotes overtime period''

References

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