The 2018 Mid-American Conference men's basketball tournament was the post-season men's basketball tournament for the

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(MAC). Tournament first-round games were held on campus sites at the higher seed on March 5. The remaining rounds were held at

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between March 8–10, 2018. Regular-season champion Buffalo defeated

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in the championship game to win the tournament and receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. There they defeated

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before losing to

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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 will receive a bye to quarterfinals.

Schedule

Bracket

* denotes overtime period

All-Tournament Team

Tournament MVP – Wes Clark, ''Buffalo''

References

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