2025 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament

2025 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament
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Classification	Division I
Season	2024–25
Teams	12
Site	Enterprise Center St. Louis, Missouri
Champions	Drake (4th title)
Winning coach	Ben McCollum (1st title)
Television	CBS, CBSSN, MVC TV Network/ESPN+
Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournaments

2024–25 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball standings

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Drake †	17	–	3		.850			31	–	4		.886
Bradley	15	–	5		.750			28	–	9		.757
Northern Iowa	14	–	6		.700			20	–	13		.606
Belmont	13	–	7		.650			22	–	11		.667
Illinois State	10	–	10		.500			22	–	14		.611
UIC	10	–	10		.500			17	–	14		.548
Murray State	9	–	11		.450			16	–	17		.485
Southern Illinois	8	–	12		.400			14	–	19		.424
Indiana State	8	–	12		.400			14	–	18		.438
Evansville	8	–	12		.400			11	–	21		.344
Valparaiso	6	–	14		.300			15	–	19		.441
Missouri State	2	–	18		.100			9	–	23		.281
† 2025 MVC tournament winner

The 2025 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, popularly referred to as "Arch Madness", was a postseason men's basketball tournament that completed the 2024–25 season in the Missouri Valley Conference. The tournament was held at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Missouri from March 6–9, 2025. The winner, Drake, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Tournament.

Seeds

Teams are seeded by conference record.

Two-way ties are broken by utilizing head-to-head record; should a tie still remain, the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) rankings the day following all conference teams having completed their regular season will be used.

Three (or more) way ties are broken by first determining the cumulative record for each tied team versus the other teams with the same conference record. Should any teams still remain tied (and there are more than two), the cumulative record would again be used on those remaining teams; should any teams still remain (and there are only two), the two-way approach would be leveraged.

The top four seeds receive opening-round byes.[1] Since none of the ties in the standings could be broken using head-to-head records, they were all resolved using NET rankings as of March 3, 2025,[2] the day following the end of regular-season conference play.

Seed	School	Conference Record	Tiebreaker(s)
1	Drake	17–3
2	Bradley	15–5
3	Northern Iowa	14–6
4	Belmont	13–7
5	Illinois State	10–10	NET ranking of 123
6	UIC	10–10	NET ranking of 145
7	Murray State	9–11
8	Southern Illinois	8–12	NET ranking of 197
9	Indiana State	8–12	NET ranking of 203
10	Evansville	8–12	NET ranking of 243
11	Valparaiso	6–14
12	Missouri State	2–18

Schedule

Game	Time *	Matchup	Score	Television
Opening Round – Thursday, March 6
1	12:00 pm	No. 8 Southern Illinois vs. No. 9 Indiana State	86–85	MVC TV Network/ ESPN+
2	2:30 pm	No. 5 Illinois State vs. No. 12 Missouri State	70–54
3	6:00 pm	No. 7 Murray State vs. No. 10 Evansville	74–53
4	8:30 pm	No. 6 UIC vs. No. 11 Valparaiso	50–67
Quarterfinals – Friday, March 7
5	12:00 pm	No. 1 Drake vs. No. 8 Southern Illinois	70–53	MVC TV Network/ ESPN+
6	2:30 pm	No. 4 Belmont vs. No. 5 Illinois State	76–63
7	6:00 pm	No. 2 Bradley vs. No. 7 Murray State	70–62
8	8:30 pm	No. 3 Northern Iowa vs. No. 11 Valparaiso	63–64
Semifinals – Saturday, March 8
9	2:30 pm	No. 1 Drake vs. No. 4 Belmont	57–50	CBSSN
10	5:00 pm	No. 2 Bradley vs. No. 11 Valparaiso	70–65
Championship – Sunday, March 9
11	1:15 pm	No. 1 Drake vs. No. 2 Bradley	63–48	CBS
* Game times in CST through the semifinals and CDT for the championship; rankings denote tournament seed.

Bracket

	Opening Round Thursday, March 6 MVC TV Network/ESPN+					Quarterfinals Friday, March 7 MVC TV Network/ESPN+					Semifinals Saturday, March 8 CBSSN					Final Sunday, March 9 CBS
						1	Drake	70
	8	Southern Illinois	86			8	Southern Illinois	53
	9	Indiana State	85								1	Drake	57
											4	Belmont	50
						4	Belmont	76
	5	Illinois State	70			5	Illinois State	63
	12	Missouri State	54													1	Drake	63
																2	Bradley	48
						2	Bradley	70
	7	Murray State	74			7	Murray State	62
	10	Evansville	53								2	Bradley	70
											11	Valparaiso	65
						3	Northern Iowa	63
	6	UIC	50			11	Valparaiso	64
	11	Valparaiso	67

Source:[3]

References

1. "State Farm MVC Tournament Men's Basketball Tiebreaker" MVC-Sports.com. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
2. "2024–25 D-I Men's Basketball NET Ranking thru Games 03/02/2025". NCAA. March 2, 2025. Retrieved March 3, 2025.
3. "Arch Madness - Missouri Valley Conference - Tournament Central". mvc-sports.com. Retrieved December 31, 2024.