The 2010 Mid-American Conference men's basketball tournament was the post-season men's basketball tournament for the

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(MAC) 2009–2010 season. Ninth-seeded

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won the tournament received the MAC's automatic bid into the

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tournament. There they defeated Georgetown 97–83 before losing to

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in the second round. Armon Bassett of Ohio was named the tournament MVP.

Format

Each of the 12 men's basketball teams in the MAC receives a berth in the conference tournament. Teams are seeded by conference record with the following tie-breakers: * Head-to-head competition * Winning percentage vs. ranked conference teams (top to bottom, regardless of division, vs. common opponents regardless of the number of times played) * Coin flip The top four seeds received byes into the quarterfinals. The winners of each division were awarded the #1 and #2 seeds. The team with the best record of the two received the #1 seed. First round games were played on campus sites at the higher seed. The remaining rounds were held at

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Bracket

* Overtime

Tiebreakers

All-tournament team

* Armon Bassett, Ohio (MVP) * Jimmy Conyers, Akron *

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, WMU * Carlos Medlock, EMU * Chris McKnight, Akron

References

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