MAC Tournament Information

2016 MAC tournament site: Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, OH & Campus Sites
2016 MAC tournament dates: March 7th, 10th-12th, 2016

The values shown below were frozen prior to the beginning of the first round. However, you can still find our latest projected odds for each team to win the conference tournament in the last column of the standings table at the bottom of the page.

Seed Team Quarter Semi Champ Win

NOTE: We use the structure below to calculate home advantage.

In some cases this may not be the true game location; instead we may use a proxy location that we think makes our home advantage calculation more accurate than simply treating the location as a neutral court.

  • First Round - higher seed.
  • Quarterfinals - neutral site.
  • Semifinals - neutral site.
  • Championship Game - neutral site.

The 2016 MAC tournament bracket odds table above lists the round-by-round survival odds for every 2016 MAC tournament team. Using win odds calculations derived from our sophisticated power ratings, we analyze the likelihood and expected outcome of every possible path to the MAC tournament championship for every team in the 2016 MAC bracket.

Projected Conference Standings

MAC

  Current Projection Playoffs
Team conf W L conf W L overall W L Win Conf Win Tourn
Akron 13 5 13.0 5.0 26.0 8.0 100.0% 0.0%
Ohio 11 7 11.0 7.0 21.0 11.0 0.0% 0.0%
Ball State 10 8 10.0 8.0 19.0 13.0 0.0% 0.0%
Central Mich 10 8 10.0 8.0 17.0 15.0 0.0% 0.0%
Buffalo 10 8 10.0 8.0 20.0 14.0 0.0% 100.0%
Kent State 10 8 10.0 8.0 19.0 13.0 0.0% 0.0%
N Illinois 9 9 9.0 9.0 21.0 12.0 0.0% 0.0%
E Michigan 9 9 9.0 9.0 18.0 15.0 0.0% 0.0%
Toledo 8 10 8.0 10.0 17.0 15.0 0.0% 0.0%
W Michigan 7 11 7.0 11.0 13.0 19.0 0.0% 0.0%
Miami (OH) 6 12 6.0 12.0 13.0 20.0 0.0% 0.0%
Bowling Grn 5 13 5.0 13.0 16.0 18.0 0.0% 0.0%

A team's relative odds to win the 2016 MAC Tournament depend only partly on their MAC bracket seed. Winning the MAC Tournament also depends on the dynamics of the 2016 MAC bracket. In some cases, the team with a better MAC Tournament seed may actually face a harder path to the MAC Tournament championship than a team with a worse MAC tournament seed.

In addition, because MAC tournament seeds are based on win-loss records in MAC conference games, MAC tournament seeds are not always the most accurate measure of a team's true performance level. This is another reason why higher seeded teams in the MAC bracket can have better odds to win the 2016 MAC Tournament than lower seeded teams in the MAC bracket.