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KANSAS CITY, Mo.&nbsp;&ndash; The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association announced the bracket and seed for its 2025 postseason men&rsquo;s basketball championship, set for March 5-9 in Kansas City&rsquo;s historic Municipal Auditorium. &nbsp; The 2024-25 MIAA basketball regular season concluded on Saturday, March 1. Ten men&rsquo;s teams and 10 women&rsquo;s teams will make the trip to Kansas City, Mo., this week for the 2025 MIAA Basketball Championships, presented by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bankwithsouthern.com/">Southern Bank</a>. MIAA Madness tips off Wednesday, March 5, with the men&rsquo;s sessions in the afternoon and the women&rsquo;s sessions in the evening. &nbsp; &nbsp; Washburn will be the top seed in the men&rsquo;s tournament. Currently anked No. 1 in the Central Region and No. 4 in Division II, Washburn dominated the league this season with an impressive MIAA record of 17-2 and 26-2 overall. The Ichabods clinched the 2024-25 MIAA regular season title on February 22 with a 30-point win over Rogers State. The championship was Washburn&rsquo;s 11th regular season title and first since the 2011-12 season when the Ichabods shared the title with Northwest Missouri and Central Missouri. It&rsquo;s Washburn&rsquo;s first outright regular season title since the 2003-04 season. &nbsp; Fort Hays State was tabbed the No. 2 seed in the MIAA tournament and will join Washburn with a first-round bye. Both the Tigers and the Ichabods will play their first postseason games on Thursday, March 6. &nbsp; Rogers State earned the No. 3 seed &ndash; the Hillcats highest tournament seed since joining the MIAA in 2019. Pittsburg State will be the No. 4 seed, followed by No. 5-seeded Nebraska Kearney, No. 6-seeded Missouri Western, No. 7-seeded Central Missouri and No. 8-seeded Central Oklahoma. Emporia State and Northeastern State snagged the final seeds in the championship with the Hornets at No. 9 and the RiverHawks at No. 10. &nbsp; The MIAA uses&nbsp;KPI and tiebreakers for seeding in the postseason tournament.&nbsp;KPI rankings are a results-based metric meant to quantify how hard it was for a team to achieve a record given their schedule. KPI ranks every team&rsquo;s wins, losses and ties on a positive-to-negative scale after every contest.&nbsp;Adjustments are made to each game&rsquo;s value based on the location of the game, opponent quality, and percentage of total points/goals scored. Game values are added together and divided by games played for each team's KPI ranking. &nbsp; The 2025 MIAA&nbsp;Basketball Championships will be the 22nd year the championships have been hosted in Kansas City&rsquo;s historic Municipal Auditorium.&nbsp; &nbsp; Fans can purchase tickets at the&nbsp;<a href="https://kcconvention.com/resources/tickets/">Municipal box office</a>&nbsp;or via&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ticketmaster.com/miaa-basketball-championships-tickets/artist/1546957">Ticketmaster</a>. Single-Session tickets are $25 and All-Session Tournament Passes are $85. Student Single-Session tickets will also be sold for $10. Children six and under are admitted at no charge. &nbsp; Fans not traveling to Kansas City can watch all the MIAA Madness action live, exclusively on&nbsp;<a href="http://www.themiaanetwork.com/">The MIAA Network</a>. Fans can purchase access to single-game broadcasts for $15 or a MIAA Network Tournament Pass for $40. MIAA fans who already have a subscription to The MIAA Network will not have to pay the additional charge for tournament games.&nbsp; &nbsp; Below is the official schedule for the 2025 MIAA Men&rsquo;s Basketball Championships presented by Southern Bank. To stay up to date with the latest MIAA Madness news and more, visit&nbsp;<a href="https://themiaa.com/feature/2025-miaa-basketball-championships">theMIAA.com/Basketball</a>. &nbsp; &nbsp; 2025 MIAA MEN&rsquo;S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE&nbsp;&nbsp; WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5: 12 PM | No. 8 seed Central Oklahoma vs. No. 9 seed Emporia State 2:15 PM | No. 7 seed Central Missouri vs. No. 10 seed Northeastern State THURSDAY, MARCH 6: 12 PM | No. 1 seed Washburn vs. No. 8/9 seed 2:15 PM | No. 2 seed Fort Hays State vs. No. 7/10 seed FRIDAY, MARCH 7: 12 PM | No. 4 seed Pittsburg State vs. No. 5 seed Nebraska Kearney 2:15 PM | No. 3 seed Rogers State vs. No. 6 seed Missouri Western SATURDAY, MARCH 8: 12 PM | Men's Semifinals 2:15 PM | Men's Semifinals SUNDAY, MARCH 9: 1 PM | Men's Championship</div>

🏀 MIAA releases men's postseason bracket