KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association announced the bracket and seed for its 2025 postseason men’s basketball championship, set for March 5-9 in Kansas City’s historic Municipal Auditorium.
 
The 2024-25 MIAA basketball regular season concluded on Saturday, March 1. Ten men’s teams and 10 women’s teams will make the trip to Kansas City, Mo., this week for the 2025 MIAA Basketball Championships, presented by Southern Bank. MIAA Madness tips off Wednesday, March 5, with the men’s sessions in the afternoon and the women’s sessions in the evening.  
 
Washburn will be the top seed in the men’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’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’s Washburn’s first outright regular season title since the 2003-04 season.
 
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.
 
Rogers State earned the No. 3 seed – 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.  

The MIAA uses KPI and tiebreakers for seeding in the postseason tournament. 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’s wins, losses and ties on a positive-to-negative scale after every contest. Adjustments are made to each game’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.
 
The 2025 MIAA Basketball Championships will be the 22nd year the championships have been hosted in Kansas City’s historic Municipal Auditorium. 
 
Fans can purchase tickets at the Municipal box office or via Ticketmaster. 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.
 
Fans not traveling to Kansas City can watch all the MIAA Madness action live, exclusively on The MIAA Network. 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. 
 
Below is the official schedule for the 2025 MIAA Men’s Basketball Championships presented by Southern Bank. To stay up to date with the latest MIAA Madness news and more, visit theMIAA.com/Basketball.
 
  2025 MIAA MEN’S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE  
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