The 2009 Mid-American Conference men's basketball tournament is the post-season basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference

Mid-American Conference

The Mid-American Conference is a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from Western New York to Illinois. Nine of the twelve full member schools are in Ohio and Michigan, with single members...

 (MAC) 2008–2009 season

2008–09 Mid-American Conference season

The 2008–09 Mid-American Conference season is an National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I conference. The Mid-American Conference sponsors 23 sports...

. The winner of the tournament receives the MAC's automatic bid into the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a single-elimination tournament held each spring in the United States, featuring 68 college basketball teams, to determine the national championship in the top tier of college basketball...

 tournament.

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 receive byes into the quarterfinals. The winners of each division are awarded the #1 and #2 seeds. The team with the best record of the two receives the #1 seed.

Bracket

* Overtime

Seeds

Seed	Team	Record	Tiebreaker #1	Tiebreaker #2	Tiebreaker #3	Tiebreaker #4	Tiebreaker #5
1	Bowling Green	11–5	2–0 head-to-head	–	–	–	–
2	Ball State	7–9	Division champ	–	–	–	–
3	Buffalo	11–5	0–2 head-to-head	–	–	–	–
4	Miami	10–6	3–1 head-to-head	–	–	–	–
5	Akron	10–6	2–2 head-to-head	–	–	–	–
6	Kent State	10–6	1–3 head-to-head	–	–	–	–
7	Central Michigan	7–9	2–1 head-to-head	1–1 head-to-head	0–1 vs. #1 BGSU	0–1 vs. #2 Buffalo	1–0 vs. #3 Miami
8	Western Michigan	7–9	2–1 head-to-head	1–1 head-to-head	0–1 vs. #1 BGSU	0–1 vs. #2 Buffalo	0–1 vs. #3 Miami
9	Ohio	7–9	0–2 head-to-head	–	–	–	–
10	Eastern Michigan	6–10	1–1 head-to-head	1–0 vs. #1 BGSU	–	–	–
11	Northern Illinois	6–10	1–1 head-to-head	0–1 vs. #1 BGSU	–	–	–
12	Toledo	1–15	–	–	–	–	–

West Division

Team	Record	Tiebreaker #1	Tiebreaker #2	Tiebreaker #3
Ball State	7–9	2–2 head-to-head	0–1 vs. #1 BGSU	1–0 vs. #2 Buffalo
Central Michigan	7–9	2–2 head-to-head	0–1 vs. #1 BGSU	0–1 vs. #2 Buffalo
Western Michigan	7–9	2–2 head-to-head	0–1 vs. #1 BGSU	0–1 vs. #2 Buffalo