2022 Ohio Valley Conference men's basketball tournament was the conference tournament concluding the 2021–22 season of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC). The entire tournament, contested during March 2–5, 2022, was played at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana . The winner, the Murray State Racers , received the conference's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA tournament .
Seeds
Only the top eight teams in the conference qualified for the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The first tiebreaker was head-to-head results between the tied teams and the second tiebreaker was comparing each team's record against individual teams in the conference starting with the top-ranked team and working down until they are no longer tied.[ 1]
Schedule
Game
Time
Matchup
Score
Television
First Round – Wednesday, March 2
1
6:30 pm
No. 5 Tennessee State vs. No. 8 SIU Edwardsville
77–62
ESPN+
2
9:00 pm
No. 6 Austin Peay vs. No. 7 Tennessee Tech
75–68
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 3
3
6:30 pm
No. 4 Southeast Missouri State vs. No. 5 Tennessee State
79-55
ESPN+
4
9:00 pm
No. 3 Morehead State vs. No. 7 Tennessee Tech
73–56
Semifinals – Friday, March 4
5
7:00 pm
No. 1 Murray State vs. No. 4 Southeast Missouri State
88–74
ESPNU
6
9:30 pm
No. 2 Belmont vs. No. 3 Morehead State
53–51
Championship – Saturday, March 5
7
7:30 pm
No. 1 Murray State vs. No. 3 Morehead State
71–67
ESPN2
All game times in Central Time . [ 2]
Bracket
First round Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship 1 Murray State 88 4 Southeast Missouri State 79 4 Southeast Missouri State 74 5 Tennessee State 77 5 Tennessee State 55 1 Murray State 71 8 SIU Edwardsville 62 3 Morehead State 67 2 Belmont 51 3 Morehead State 73 3 Morehead State 53 6 Austin Peay 51 7 Tennessee Tech 56 7 Tennessee Tech 78
* denotes number of overtime periods
References