2009 MAC Women's Basketball Tournament
| 2009 MAC Women's Basketball Tournament | |||||
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Logo for the 2009 Mid-American Conference tournament | |||||
| Classification | Division I | ||||
| Teams | 12 | ||||
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Quicken Loans Arena Cleveland, Ohio | ||||
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The 2009 Mid-American Conference women's basketball tournament is the post-season basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference (MAC) 2008–2009 season. The winner of the tournament receives the MAC's automatic bid into the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship tournament.
Format
Each of the 12 women's basketball teams in the MAC receive a berth in the conference tournament. Teams are seeded per division by conference record with the following tie-breakers:[1]
- Two-team tie:
- Head-to-head competition
- Division record (ten games)
- Record vs. #1 team in division proceeding through the #6 team, if necessary
- Non-division record (six games)
- Record vs. #1 team in the opposite division proceeding through the #6 team, if necessary
- Coin flip by the Commissioner
- Three-team tie:
- Total won–lost record of games played among the tied teams
- Division record (ten games)
- Record vs. #1 team in division proceeding through the #6 team, if necessary
- Non-division record (six games)
- Record vs. #1 team in the opposite division proceeding through the #6 team, if necessary
- Coin flip by the Commissioner
Note: Once a three-team tie has been reduced to two teams, the two-team tiebreakers go in effect. If there are multiple ties, the ties are broken from the top down (e.g. a tie for #3 will be broken before a tie for #5).
The top two seeds in each division receive byes into the Quarterfinals.