The 2009 Mid-American Conference women's basketball tournament is the post-season basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference

Mid-American Conference

The Mid-American Conference is a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from Western New York to Illinois. Nine of the twelve full member schools are in Ohio and Michigan, with single members...

 (MAC) 2008–2009 season

2008–09 Mid-American Conference season

The 2008–09 Mid-American Conference season is an National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I conference. The Mid-American Conference sponsors 23 sports...

. The winner of the tournament receives the MAC's automatic bid into the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

The NCAA Women's Division I Championship is an annual college basketball tournament for women. Held each April, the Women's Championship was inaugurated in the 1981–82 season...

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:

• Two-team tie:

1. Head-to-head competition
2. Division record (ten games)
3. Record vs. #1 team in division proceeding through the #6 team, if necessary
4. Non-division record (six games)
5. Record vs. #1 team in the opposite division proceeding through the #6 team, if necessary
6. Coin flip by the Commissioner
   • Three-team tie:
7. Total won–lost record of games played among the tied teams
8. Division record (ten games)
9. Record vs. #1 team in division proceeding through the #6 team, if necessary
10. Non-division record (six games)
11. Record vs. #1 team in the opposite division proceeding through the #6 team, if necessary
12. 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.