The MAC Tournament gets started in earnest today as the remaining eight squads assemble at Quicken Loans Arena in downtown Cleveland to fight for an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Both Buffalo (28-3) and Central Michigan (19-13) got to this position in very different fashions.
Buffalo, the #1 seed, relatively breezed through the conference schedule, scoring over 80 points per game in conference play and only suffering two losses, securing the MAC East with relative ease. They had an extremely tough strength of schedule in the non-conference as well, making them, at one point, a potential at-large bid.