2026 MAC women's basketball tournament

2026 MAC women's basketball tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season2025–26
Teams8
SiteRocket Arena
Cleveland, Ohio
MAC women's basketball tournaments
2025–26 Mid-American Conference women's basketball standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Ball State 12 1   .923 21 5   .808
Miami (OH) 11 1   .917 20 5   .800
UMass 10 2   .833 18 5   .783
Central Michigan 10 3   .769 16 8   .667
Ohio 9 4   .692 15 9   .625
Toledo 7 5   .583 13 10   .565
Kent State 5 7   .417 11 13   .458
Bowling Green 5 8   .385 13 12   .520
Eastern Michigan 4 9   .308 11 13   .458
Western Michigan 3 9   .250 7 16   .304
Akron 3 9   .250 6 19   .240
Northern Illinois 2 11   .154 5 20   .200
Buffalo 0 12   .000 2 22   .083
2026 MAC tournament winner
As of February 14, 2026

The 2025 MAC women's basketball tournament will be postseason basketball tournament for the 2025–26 college basketball season in the Mid-American Conference (MAC).[1] The entire tournament will be held at Rocket Arena, in Cleveland, Ohio on March 11 and 13–14, 2026.[2]

Format

As with all MAC tournaments since 2021, only the top eight teams will qualify.[3] The winner of the tournament will receive the MAC's automatic bid to the 2026 NCAA tournament.[4]

Venue

The 2026 MAC tournament will be held at Rocket Arena for the 26th consecutive season. The venue is the home of the Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA,[5] has a capacity for basketball of 19,432, and is located in downtown Cleveland at One Center Court.[6]

Seeds

Eight out of the 13 MAC teams will qualify for the tournament. Teams will be seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.[7]

Seed School Conference
record
Tiebreaker
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
DNQ
DNQ
DNQ
DNQ
DNQ

Schedule

Session Game Time* Matchup Score Attendance Television
Quarterfinals – Wednesday, March 11 – Rocket Arena, Cleveland, OH
1 1 11:00 am
2 30 mins after Game 1
3 30 mins after Game 2
4 30 mins after Game 3
Semifinals – Friday, March 13 – Rocket Arena, Cleveland, OH
2 5 10:00 am
6 30 mins after Game 5
Championship – Saturday, March 15 – Rocket Arena, Cleveland, OH
3 7 11:00 am
*Game times in EDT. ()-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Source:

Bracket

Quarterfinals
Wednesday, March 11, 2025
Semifinals
Friday, March 13, 2025
Championship
Saturday, March 14, 2025
         
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See also

2026 MAC men's basketball tournament

References

  1. ^ "2025-26 MAC Championships" (PDF). Mid-American Conference. Retrieved August 1, 2025.
  2. ^ "MAC Tournament staying in downtown Cleveland through 2030". Cleveland 19 News. Retrieved June 9, 2022.
  3. ^ Adelson, Andrea (May 12, 2020). "MAC curtails basketball schedules, eliminates conference tournaments in other sports". Retrieved August 4, 2025.
  4. ^ "MAC eliminating and scaling back postseason tournaments". ABC News. May 12, 2020. Retrieved June 9, 2022.
  5. ^ "About". Rocket Arena. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
  6. ^ "A-Z Guide". Rocket Arena. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
  7. ^ "Tie-Breaker Procedures". Mid-American Conference. Retrieved February 1, 2022.