The 2018 Mid-American Conference women's basketball tournament was a post-season basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference (MAC) 2017–18 college basketball season. Tournament first round games was held on campus sites at the higher seed on March 5. The remaining rounds was held at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland between March 7–10. Central Michigan won the MAC Women's Tournament received the conference's automatic bid into the 2018 NCAA tournament.[1]
Format
Unlike with the recent tournaments, where the top two seeds received byes into the semifinals, with the three and four seeds receiving a bye to the quarterfinals, the tournament will revert to its original structure in which the top four seeds receive just one bye into the quarterfinals.[2]
Seeds
Seed
School
Conference record
Division
Tiebreaker
1†
Central Michigan
17–1
West
2†
Buffalo
16–2
East
3†
Ball State
13–5
West
4†
Miami (OH)
12–6
East
5
Ohio
9–9
East
1–0 vs. Western Michigan
6
Western Michigan
9–9
West
0–1 vs. Ohio
7
Toledo
8–10
West
8
Northern Illinois
7–11
West
9
Eastern Michigan
6–12
West
10
Kent State
5–13
East
11
Bowling Green
3–15
East
2–0 vs. Akron
12
Akron
3–15
East
0–2 vs. Bowling Green
† – Received Bye to quarterfinals. Overall record are as of the end of the regular season.
