2021–22_Mid-American_Conference_men's_basketball_season

2021–22 Mid-American Conference men's basketball season
2021–22 Mid-American Conference men's basketball season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Basketball
Number of teams	12
Regular season
Champions	Toledo
Runners-up	Kent State
Season MVP	Sincere Carry
Tournament
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2021–22 Mid-American Conference men's basketball season

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The 2021–22 Mid-American Conference men's basketball season began with practices in October 2021, followed by the start of the 2021–22 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in November. Conference began in January 2021 and concluded in March 2022. Toledo won their second straight MAC regular season title with a 17–3 conference record.^[1]

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Fourth seeded Akron defeated Kent State in the final of the MAC tournament.^[2] With the automatic bid, Akron was the only MAC schools to qualify for the NCAA tournament where they lost to UCLA in the first round.^[3]^[4] Toledo accepted a bid to the National Invitation Tournament where they lost to Dayton in the first round.^[5]^[6] Ohio accepted a bid to the College Basketball Invitational.^[7] Kent State accepted a bid to The Basketball Classic.^[8]

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v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Toledo	17	–	3	.850	26	–	8	.765
Kent State	16	–	4	.800	23	–	11	.676
Ohio	14	–	6	.700	25	–	10	.714
Akron †	14	–	6	.700	24	–	10	.706
Buffalo	13	–	6	.684	19	–	11	.633
Ball State	9	–	10	.474	14	–	17	.452
Miami (OH)	8	–	12	.400	14	–	18	.438
Central Michigan	6	–	12	.333	7	–	23	.233
Bowling Green	6	–	14	.300	13	–	18	.419
Northern Illinois	6	–	14	.300	9	–	21	.300
Eastern Michigan	5	–	15	.250	10	–	21	.323
Western Michigan	4	–	16	.200	8	–	23	.258

† 2022 MAC tournament winner

Honor	Recipient
Preseason All-MAC First Team	Daeqwon Plowden, Bowling Green
	Josh Mballa, Buffalo
	Jeenathan Williams, Buffalo
	Ben Vander Plas, Ohio
	Ryan Rollins, Toledo
Preseason All-MAC Second Team	K. J. Walton, Akron
	Sincere Carry, Kent State
	Dae Dae Grant, Miami
	Jason Carter, Ohio
	B. Artis White, Western Michigan

	Akron	Ball State	Bowling Green	Buffalo	Central Michigan	Eastern Michigan	Kent State	Miami (OH)	Northern Illinois	Ohio	Toledo	Western Michigan
vs. Akron	–	0–2	0–2	0–1	0–2	0–2	2–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1
vs. Ball State	2–0	–	0–2	2–0	1–0	0–2	2–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–2
vs. Bowling Green	2–0	2–0	–	2–0	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	0–2	1–1	2–0	1–1
vs. Buffalo	1–0	0–2	0–2	–	0–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–0	2–0	0–2
vs. Central Michigan	2–0	0–1	0–1	1–0	–	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	2–0	2–0	1–1
vs. Eastern Michigan	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	0–2	–	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–1
vs. Kent State	0–2	0–2	0–2	1–1	1–1	0–2	–	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–2	0–1
vs. Miami (OH)	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	–	0–2	2–0	2–0	0–2
vs. Northern Illinois	1–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	–	1–1	2–0	0–1
vs. Ohio	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	0–2	0–2	1–1	0–2	1–1	–	2–0	0–2
vs. Toledo	0–1	1–1	0–2	0–2	0–2	0–1	2–0	0–2	0–2	0–2	−	0–2
vs. Western Michigan	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	-
Total	14–6	9–10	6–14	13–6	6–12	5–15	16–4	8–12	6–14	14–6	17–3	4–16

Week	Player(s) of the Week	School
Nov 15	Mark Sears	Ohio
Nov 22	Maceo Jack	Buffalo
Nov 29	Ryan Rollins	Toledo
Dec 6	Enrique Freeman	Akron
Dec 13	Bryce McBride	Eastern Michigan
Dec 20	Mark Sears	Ohio
Dec 27	Mark Sears	Ohio
Jan 3	Ali Ali / Mekhi Lairy	Akron / Miami
Jan 10	Mark Sears	Ohio
Jan 17	JT Shumate	Toledo
Jan 24	Ryan Rollins	Toledo
Jan 31	Mark Sears / Ryan Rollins	Ohio / Toledo
Feb 7	Jason Carter	Ohio
Feb 14	Ryan Rollins	Toledo
Feb 21	Sincere Carry / Josh Mballa	Kent State / Buffalo
Feb 28	Sincere Carry / Jeenathan Williams	Kent State / Buffalo
Mar 7	Sincere Carry / Setric Millner Jr.	Kent State / Toledo

Honor	Recipient
Postseason All-MAC First Team	Jeenathan Williams, Buffalo
	Sincere Carry, Kent State
	Mark Sears, Ohio
	Ben Vander Plas, Ohio
	Ryan Rollins, Toledo
Postseason All-MAC Second Team	Ali Ali, Akron
	Enrique Freeman, Akron
	Josh Mballa, Buffalo
	Ronaldo Segu, Buffalo
	JT Shumate, Toledo
Postseason All-MAC Third Team	Payton Sparks, Ball State
	Daeqwon Plowden, Bowling Green
	Jason Carter, Ohio
	Setric Millner Jr., Toledo
	Lamar Norman Jr., Western Michigan
Postseason All-MAC Honorable Mention	Xavier Castaneda, Akron
	Kevin Miller, Central Michigan
	Malique Jacobs, Kent State
	Dae Dae Grant, Miami
	Keshawn Williams, Northern Illinois
All-MAC Freshman Team	Payton Sparks, Ball State
	Jaylin Sellers, Ball State
	Kevin Miller, Central Michigan
	Mo Njie, Eastern Michigan
	Ra’Heim Moss, Toledo
All-MAC Defensive Team	Enrique Freeman, Akron
	Daeqwon Plowden, Bowling Green
	Josh Mballa, Buffalo
	Malique Jacobs, Kent State
	Sincere Carry, Kent State

2021–22_Mid-American_Conference_men's_basketball_season

2021–22 Mid-American Conference men's basketball season

Preseason awards

Preseason men's basketball coaches poll

Honors

Conference matrix

All-MAC awards

Mid-American men's basketball weekly awards

Postseason

Mid–American tournament

NCAA tournament

Postseason awards

Honors

See also

References

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