The 2002 MAC men's basketball tournament, a part of the 2001–02 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, took place at Gund Arena in Cleveland.
Its winner received the Mid-American Conference's automatic bid to the 2002 NCAA tournament.
Kent State, the MAC regular season winner, received the number one seed in the tournament.
[1] The announced crowd of 14,106 set a conference record for highest-attended tournament game.
In the NCAA Tournament Kent State defeated Oklahoma State, Alabama, and Pittsburgh before losing to then eventual national runner-up Indiana Hoosiers in the Elite Eight.