The March 6 first-round games were held at the higher seeds home arenas.
Its winner received the Mid-American Conference's automatic bid to the 2006 NCAA tournament.
Kent State, the MAC regular season winner, received the number one seed in the tournament.
The #5 seed was determined through a three-way tie between Ohio, Toledo, and Western Michigan.
Since Toledo was able to defeat Kent State in the regular season and Western Michigan was not, they were given the #6 seed.