The 2025 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the final event of the 2024âÂÂ25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in the Ohio Valley Conference. The tournament was held March 5âÂÂ8, 2025 at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana. The tournament winner, SIU Edwardsville, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
Only the top eight teams in the conference will qualify for the tournament. Teams will be seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
Because Southern Indiana and Lindenwood are ineligible for the NCAA Tournament, the conference's automatic bid goes to the tournament runner-up if either wins the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament. If that team is also not eligible, i.e. both ineligible teams met in the tournament final, the automatic bid goes to the higher-seeded tournament-eligible semifinal loser.
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