2020–21 Mid-American Conference men's basketball season

2020–21 Mid-American Conference men's basketball season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Basketball
Number of teams	12
Regular season
Tournament

2020–21 Mid-American Conference men's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Toledo	15	–	4		.789			21	–	9		.700
Buffalo	12	–	5		.706			16	–	9		.640
Akron	12	–	6		.667			15	–	8		.652
Kent State	12	–	6		.667			15	–	8		.652
Ohio †	9	–	5		.643			17	–	8		.680
Bowling Green	10	–	8		.556			14	–	12		.538
Miami (OH)	9	–	8		.529			12	–	11		.522
Ball State	8	–	9		.471			10	–	13		.435
Western Michigan	4	–	12		.250			5	–	16		.238
Eastern Michigan	3	–	11		.214			6	–	12		.333
Central Michigan	3	–	13		.188			7	–	16		.304
Northern Illinois	2	–	12		.143			3	–	16		.158
† 2021 MAC tournament winner

The 2020–21 Mid-American Conference men's basketball season began with practices in October 2020, followed by the start of the 2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in November. Conference play begins in January 2021 and will conclude in March 2021.

Preseason Awards

The preseason coaches' poll and league awards were announced by the league office on November 19, 2020.

Preseason men's basketball coaches poll

(First place votes in parenthesis)

1. Bowling Green (8) 132
2. Ohio (1) 117
3. Akron (2) 115
4. Buffalo 109
5. Ball State 104
6. Toledo (1) 93
7. Kent State 65
8. Eastern Michigan 57
9. Miami (OH) 48
10. Northern Illinois 43
11. Central Michigan 40
12. Western Michigan 13

Honors

Honor	Recipient
Preseason All-MAC First Team	Loren Cristian Jackson, Akron
	Justin Turner, Bowling Green
	Jayvon Graves, Buffalo
	Jason Preston, Ohio
	Marreon Jackson, Toledo
Preseason All-MAC Second Team	Ishmael El-Amin, Ball State
	Daeqwon Plowden, Bowling Green
	Josh Mballa, Buffalo
	Danny Pippen, Kent State
	Ben Vander Plas, Ohio

Conference matrix

	Akron	Ball State	Bowling Green	Buffalo	Central Michigan	Eastern Michigan	Kent State	Miami (OH)	Northern Illinois	Ohio	Toledo	Western Michigan
vs. Akron	–	0−1	0−1	0−0	0−1	1−1	0−1	0−0	1−0	0–1	1−1	0–1
vs. Ball State	1–0	–	0–1	2–0	0−0	0−0	0−0	1−0	0−2	2–0	0−0	0–1
vs. Bowling Green	1–0	1–0	–	0–2	0−2	0−0	1−0	1−0	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–0
vs. Buffalo	0–0	0–2	2–0	–	0−0	0−1	1−0	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–1
vs. Central Michigan	1–0	0−0	2−0	0−0	–	0–2	2–0	0−0	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–0
vs. Eastern Michigan	1–1	0−0	0−0	1−0	2–0	–	0−0	1–0	0–0	0–0	2–0	0–0
vs. Kent State	1–0	0−0	0−1	0−1	0–2	0−0	–	0–1	0−0	0–1	2–0	0–1
vs. Miami (OH)	0–0	0–1	0−1	1–0	0−0	0–1	1–0	–	0–1	1–0	1−0	0–1
vs. Northern Illinois	0–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0−0	1–0	–	1–0	1–0	0–0
vs. Ohio	1−0	0−2	1−0	0–1	0–1	0–0	1−0	0−1	0−1	–	1–0	0–1
vs. Toledo	1–1	0–0	0–1	0−0	0−1	0–2	0–2	0−1	0−1	0–1	−	0–1
vs. Western Michigan	1–0	1–0	0–1	1−0	0−1	0–0	1–0	1−0	0−0	1–0	1–0	-
Total	8–3	4–6	6–6	5–4	2–8	1–7	7–3	5–4	1–6	7–4	11–1	2–7

All-MAC awards

Mid-American men's basketball weekly awards

Week	Player(s) of the Week	School	Newcomer of the Week	School
Nov 30
Dec 7
Dec 14
Dec 21
Dec 28
Jan 4
Jan 11
Jan 18
Jan 25
Feb 1
Feb 8
Feb 15
Feb 22
Mar 1