The MAC basketball tournament begins Thursday, and the automatic bid to the Big Dance is Akron's to lose. The Zips (25-6) rolled through conference play this season, dropping just one MAC game ...

Nate Johnson, the Mid-American Conference Player of the Year, hit a game-winning, floating layup with 2.3 seconds left to give Akron a 76-74 win over Miami in the MAC Tournament title game.

Akron basketball score vs. Miami: Zips repeat as MAC Tournament champs in dramatic fashion Miami (25-9) played a hard-nosed, physical brand of defense and made life difficult for Akron on the ...

The 5-foot-8 guard helped lead Ball State to its second NCAA Tournament appearance with a 65-58 victory over Toledo in the MAC Championship game. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword ...

It will be a hard night for one of them because the MAC is a single-bid league. To the winner goes the NCAA tournament ticket and all the trappings, to the loser goes a knife through the heart ...

The transfer portal has uniquely affected Mid-Major programs. However, the impact it has had on the MAC is different.

The Zips won their program’s sixth MAC tournament championship and second straight. A former member of the Pacific-12, the Wildcats (22-12) had a bumpy first season in the Big 12. They got it ...

Tony Barbee was hired away from Kentucky, where he was a longtime assistant. He signed a five-year contract with CMU.

University of Akron men's basketball coach John Groce remembers a conversation from four years ago with Geri Brady about a future Zips star. Groce and Brady were talking about her son, Nate Johnson, a ...

He guided the Cardinals to the No. 1 seed in the MAC Tournament, where they would go on to win their second ever conference title over No. 2 Toledo, 65-58. By winning, Ball State earned its second ...