The top two seeds have had the most success, winning a combined 32 times, and the top two seeds have won 19 titles in St. Thirty-nine of 43 previous tournament champions were seeded 1, 2, or 3. The title game will also air on Sirius XM. KTRS Radio 550 AM will carry all games but the semifinals (Saturday), which will be cleared on KFNS 590 AM. On radio, all nine games will air in the St. The semifinals will be shown on CBS Sports Network for the fifth-consecutive year, while the championship game will be cleared nationally on CBS Sports for the 15th-straight year. Six of the nine games of the tournament will be available through regional cable networks via linear distribution and ESPN+ via digital delivery (with some blackout restrictions). The tournament features nine games in four days, beginning Thursday, March 5, and ending Sunday, March 8. Other current members who have won an MVC Tournament title include Bradley (3), Drake (1), Illinois State (4), Indiana State (3), Loyola Chicago (1) and Missouri State (1). Of current members, Southern Illinois and UNI own the most tournament titles, with five each. The tourney’s top two seeds are a combined 57-1 in their first games in the 29 years in St. Notably, only four times has a seed worse than No. Louis in 29 years, just six times in the past 12 tries and only once since 2014 (Drake-2008, UNI-2009, UNI-2010, Creighton-2013, Wichita State-2014, and Loyola-2018). The top seed has won the title nine times in St. No team to play in the MVC Tournament Opening Round (Thursday) has advanced to the title game. 2 Creighton, before falling in the semifinals to Missouri State. 7 in 1998 (with a 9-9 league record), beat No. Since the league expanded to its current 10-team format in 1997, only one team that has played in the opening round has reached the semifinals (won twice). Bradley, Drake and Illinois State each won their first-round game in their respective years. Bradley (1998), Drake (2012), Illinois State (2019) and Valpo this year are the only teams to finish. Louis in which a team with a 9-9 record played in the opening round. Notably, this marks the fourth tournament in 30 seasons in St. Only the Big East Conference, which is celebrating 41-straight years in New York, has had a longer continuous run at the same neutral site for its conference men’s basketball championship. This year’s tournament is the 44th MVC post-season tourney and 30th-straight in St. 6 seed as it held a better NET rating than Valpo’s (122 to 135). Missouri State and Valparaiso also split their regular-season series and tied for sixth with identical 9-9 league records. ISU’s rating is 100, and Bradley is at 112. 3 seed by virtue of a better NET (NCAA Evaluation Tool) rating. The Sycamores won the tiebreaker and the No. Indiana State and Bradley split their series this year and tied for third place with identical 11-7 records. There were two ties in the standings that required the league to utilize its secondary tiebreaker. Altman’s 21 all-time tourney wins is the league record. The 16 wins rank third all-time in MVC history, while the four titles trail only the six championships earned by Dana Altman (Creighton). UNI head coach Ben Jacobson enters this year’s tournament with a 16-9 all-time record at Arch Madness with four crowns. UNI also has MVC Tournament titles in 2004, 20. In the previous two (20), the Panthers claimed titles and the league’s automatic NCAA berth. This marks the third time UNI has been the top seed at Arch Madness. Notably, it marks the third regular-season crown for the Panthers, which also won an outright title in 2009-10 and a shared crown in 2008-09. LOUIS - UNI (25-5, 14-4) is the State Farm MVC Tournament top seed after earning the league’s regular-season men’s basketball title for the first time since 2010.
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