The Missouri Valley Conference (also called MVC or simply "The Valley") is the third-oldest collegiate

athletic conference An athletic conference is a collection of sports teams, playing competitively against each other in a sports league. In many cases conferences are subdivided into smaller divisions, with the best teams competing at successively higher levels. Con ...

in the United States. The conference's members are primarily located in the

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History

The MVC was established in 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association or MVIAA, 12 years after the

Big Ten The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference) is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representati ...

, the only Division I conference that is older. It is the third oldest college athletic conference in the United States, after the Big Ten Conference and the

NCAA Division III NCAA Division III (D-III) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States. D-III consists of athletic programs at colleges and universities that choose not to offer athletic scholarships to their ...

Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) is an athletic conference that competes in the NCAA's Division III. There are nine teams in the conference, all located in the states of Michigan and Indiana. The Michigan Intercollegiate ...

(MIAA). The MVIAA split in 1928, with most of the larger schools forming a conference that retained the MVIAA name; this conference evolved into the

Big Eight Conference The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football. It was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Associat ...

. The smaller MVIAA schools (Drake, Grinnell and Washington University in St. Louis), plus Oklahoma A&M (now

Oklahoma State University–Stillwater Oklahoma State University–Stillwater (officially Oklahoma State University; informally Oklahoma State, OK State, OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Stillwater, Oklahoma. OSU was founded in 1890 under the Morrill Act. Original ...

, which joined the Big Eight in 1957), were joined by Creighton to form the MVC, which retained the old MVIAA's administrative staff. The Big Eight merged with four Texas schools of the

Southwest Conference The Southwest Conference (SWC) was an NCAA Division I college athletic conference in the United States that existed from 1914 to 1996. Composed primarily of schools from Texas, at various times the conference included schools from Oklahoma ...

to form the

Big 12 Conference The Big 12 Conference is a college athletic conference headquartered in Irving, Texas, USA. It consists of ten full-member universities. It is a member of Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for all sports. Its f ...

in 1996. To this day, it has never been definitively established which conference was the original and which was the spinoff, though the Big Eight would go on to become the more prestigious of the two. During the Big Eight's run, both conferences claimed 1907 as their founding date, and the same history through 1927. MVC teams held a 74–27 non-conference record during the 2006–07 college basketball season, including a record of 44–1 at home. The Valley finished in the top six of the RPI and ahead of a BCS conference for the second consecutive year, while also garnering multiple NCAA bids for the ninth straight year and 12th of 14. The MVC has not sponsored football since 1985, when it was a hybrid I-A/I-AA (now FBS and FCS, respectively) conference. However, five members have football programs in the

Missouri Valley Football Conference The Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC), formerly the Gateway Football Conference, is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I Football Championship Subdivi ...

(MVFC) (known as the Gateway from 1985 to 2008) of Division I FCS, and two others compete in another FCS conference, the Pioneer Football League. The Missouri Valley Conference shares its name with the MVFC, and all three conferences operate from the same headquarters complex in St. Louis; however, the three are separate administratively. After weeks of speculation,

Wichita State Wichita State University (WSU) is a public research university in Wichita, Kansas, United States. It is governed by the Kansas Board of Regents. The university offers more than 60 undergraduate degree programs in more than 200 areas of stud ...

announced on April 7, 2017, that it would leave the conference to join the

American Athletic Conference The American Athletic Conference (The American or AAC) is an American collegiate athletic conference, featuring 11 member universities and five affiliate member universities that compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA ...

starting with the 2017–18 season. The conference announced it extended an invitation to

Valparaiso University Valparaiso University (Valpo) is a private university in Valparaiso, Indiana. It is a Lutheran university with about 3,000 students from over 50 countries on a campus of . Originally named Valparaiso Male and Female College, Valparaiso Universi ...

on May 9, 2017; and on May 25, the MVC announced that Valparaiso would officially join the following July 1. The most recent changes to the core MVC membership were announced during the 2021–22 school year. On September 28, 2021, the MVC and

Belmont University Belmont University is a private Christian university in Nashville, Tennessee. Descended from Belmont Women's College, founded in 1890 by schoolteachers Ida Hood and Susan Heron, the institution was incorporated in 1951 as Belmont College. It b ...

jointly announced that the school would leave the

Ohio Valley Conference The Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. It participates in Division I of the NCAA; the conference's football programs compete in the Football Cha ...

for the MVC effective July 1, 2022. Then, on November 16,

Loyola University Chicago Loyola University Chicago (Loyola or LUC) is a Private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1870 by the Society of Jesus, Loyola is one of the largest Catholic Church, Catholic univers ...

announced it would leave the MVC at the same time, joining the

Atlantic 10 Conference The Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division I. The A-10's member schools are located in states mostly on the United States Easte ...

. On the same day Loyola announced its departure, CBS Sports reported that the MVC was actively pursuing further expansion, having entered into talks with the

University of Missouri–Kansas City The University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC) is a public research university in Kansas City, Missouri. UMKC is part of the University of Missouri System and one of only two member universities with a medical school. As of 2020, the universi ...

(known athletically as Kansas City),

Murray State University Murray State University (MSU) is a public university in Murray, Kentucky. In addition to the main campus in Calloway County in southwestern Kentucky, Murray State operates extended campuses offering upper level and graduate courses in Paducah, ...

, and the

University of Texas at Arlington The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA or UT Arlington) is a public research university in Arlington, Texas. The university was founded in 1895 and was in the Texas A&M University System for several decades until joining the University of ...

(UT Arlington). The report indicated that the latter two were considered the strongest candidates, but that all three were likely to receive invitations in the coming months. On January 7, 2022, the MVC announced that Murray State would officially join the conference on July 1 of that year. UT Arlington would soon remove itself from the list of candidates by announcing a 2022 move to the

Western Athletic Conference The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is an NCAA Division I conference. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States with member institutions located in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, Washington, and Texas. Due to most of ...

. Shortly before Murray State was officially announced as an incoming MVC member, Matt Brown of the ''Extra Points'' college sports blog reported that the MVC was also in membership discussions with the

University of Illinois Chicago The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a Public university, public research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its campus is in the Near West Side, Chicago, Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus esta ...

(UIC), a current member of the

Horizon League The Horizon League is an 11-school collegiate athletic conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I, whose members are located in and near the Great Lakes region. The Horizon League founded in 1979 as the Midw ...

. On the same weekend that Murray State's arrival was officially announced, MVC officials made a site visit to UIC. Brown's sources indicated that an invitation to UIC was likely. Brown noted that with the MVC losing Loyola, league officials believed that maintaining a presence in the city was a top priority, stating (emphasis in original): On January 22, 2021, Matt Norlander of ''CBSSports.com'' reported that UIC's July 2022 entry to the MVC was "a done deal", with his sources indicating that the MVC wanted to announce the move before the Conference Commissioners Association held its annual meeting in

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in early February. UIC's entry was officially announced on January 26.

Member schools

Current members

;Notes

Affiliate members

Note: In the case of spring sports, the year of joining is the calendar year before the start of competition. ;Notes

Future affiliate members

;Notes

Former members

Former full members (25)

;Notes:

Former affiliate members

This list does not include current full members Belmont and Valparaiso. As noted above, the Bruins played men's soccer in the MVC for the 2000 fall season (2000–01 school year), and the Beacons, then known as the Crusaders, played women's soccer in the MVC from the 1996 to 1998 fall seasons (1996–97 to 1998–99 school years). ;Notes:

Membership timeline

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:950 height:auto barincrement:18 Period = from:1907 till:2027 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:20 left:0 bottom:50 top:5 #> to display a count on left side of graph, use "left:20" to suppress the count, use "left:20"<# Colors = id:barcolor value:rgb(0.99,0.7,0.7) id:line value:black id:bg value:white id:FullxF value:rgb(0.742,0.727,0.852) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in all sports id:Full value:rgb(0.551,0.824,0.677) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in all sports except for football id:AssocF value:rgb(0.98,0.5,0.445) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member for football only id:AssocOS value:rgb(0.3,0.691,0.824) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in some sports, but not all (consider identifying in legend or a footnote) id:OtherC1 value:rgb(0.996,0.996,0.699) # Use this color to denote a team that has moved to another conference id:OtherC2 value:rgb(0.988,0.703,0.383) # Use this color to denote a team that has moved to another conference where OtherC1 has already been used, to distinguish the two PlotData= width:15 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from fontsize:s bar:1 color:FullxF from:1907 till:1908 text: Drake (1907–1952), (1956–present) bar:1 color:Full from:1908 till:1951 bar:1 color:AssocF from:1951 till:1952 bar:1 color:FullxF from:1957 till:1971 bar:1 color:Full from:1971 till:1986 bar:1 color:FullxF from:1986 till:end bar:2 color:AssocF from:1907 till:1911 text:

Iowa Iowa () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wiscon ...

(1907–1911) bar:3 color:FullxF from:1907 till:1908 text: Iowa State (1907–1928) bar:3 color:Full from:1908 till:1928 bar:4 color:Full from:1907 till:1928 text:

Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to ...

(1907–1928) bar:5 color:Full from:1907 till:1928 text:

Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee ...

(1907–1928) bar:6 color:Full from:1907 till:1919 text:

Nebraska Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the so ...

(1907–1919, 1921–1928) bar:6 color:Full from:1921 till:1928 bar:7 color:Full from:1907 till:1943 text: Washington U (1907–1947) bar:7 color:FullxF from:1943 till:1947 bar:8 color:Full from:1913 till:1928 text: Kansas State (1913–1928) bar:9 color:Full from:1918 till:1939 text: Grinnell (1918–1939) bar:10 color:Full from:1919 till:1928 text: Oklahoma (1919–1928) bar:11 color:Full from:1925 till:1956 text:

Oklahoma A&M Oklahoma (; Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, New M ...

(1925–1956) bar:12 color:Full from:1928 till:1943 text: Creighton (1928–1948, 1976–2013) bar:12 color:FullxF from:1943 till:1948 bar:12 color:FullxF from:1976 till:2013 bar:13 color:Full from:1932 till:1934 text: Butler (1932–1934) bar:14 color:FullxF from:1934 till:1935 text:

Tulsa Tulsa () is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 47th-most populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census. It is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with ...

(1934–1996, 2000–2005) bar:14 color:Full from:1935 till:1986 bar:14 color:FullxF from:1986 till:1996 bar:14 color:AssocOS from:2000 till:2005 bar:15 color:Full from:1935 till:1941 text:

Washburn Washburn (alternatively Wasseburne, Wasseborne, Wasshebourne, Wassheborne, Washbourne, Washburne, Washborne, Washborn, Wasborn, Washbon) is a toponymic surname, probably of Old English origin, with likely Anglo-Norman and Norman-French influenc ...

(1935–1943) bar:15 color:FullxF from:1941 till:1943 bar:16 color:Full from:1937 till:1950 text: Saint Louis (1937–1974) bar:16 color:FullxF from:1950 till:1974 bar:17 color:Full from:1945 till:1986 text:

(1945–2017) bar:17 color:FullxF from:1986 till:2017 bar:18 color:FullxF from:1948 till:1949 text: Bradley (1948–1952, 1955–present) bar:18 color:Full from:1949 till:1951 bar:18 color:AssocF from:1951 till:1952 bar:18 color:FullxF from:1955 till:end bar:19 color:Full from:1949 till:1957 text:

Detroit Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at ...

(1949–1957) bar:20 color:Full from:1951 till:1960 text:

Houston Houston (; ) is the List of cities in Texas by population, most populous city in Texas, the Southern United States#Major cities, most populous city in the Southern United States, the List of United States cities by population, fourth-most pop ...

(1951–1960) bar:21 color:Full from:1957 till:1970 text:

Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state lin ...

(1957–1970) bar:22 color:Full from:1957 till:1975 text: North Texas State (1957–1975) bar:23 color:AssocOS from:1963 till:1964 text: Louisville (1963–1975) bar:23 color:Full from:1964 till:1975 text: bar:24 color:Full from:1968 till:1973 text: Memphis State (1968–1973) bar:25 color:FullxF from:1970 till:1972 text: New Mexico State (1970–1983) bar:25 color:Full from:1972 till:1983 text: bar:26 color:Full from:1972 till:1986 text:

West Texas State West Texas A&M University (WTAMU or WT) is a public university in Canyon, Texas. It is the northernmost campus of the Texas A&M University System and accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). It was established on Se ...

(1972–1986) bar:27 color:Full from:1975 till:1986 text:

Southern Illinois Southern Illinois, also known as Little Egypt, is the southern third of Illinois, principally along and south of Interstate 64. Although part of a Midwestern state, this region is aligned in culture more with that of the Upland South than the Mi ...

(1975–present) bar:27 color:FullxF from:1986 till:end bar:28 color:Full from:1976 till:1986 text:

Indiana State Indiana State University (ISU) is a public university in Terre Haute, Indiana. It was founded in 1865 and offers over 100 undergraduate majors and more than 75 graduate and professional programs. Indiana State is classified among "D/PU: Doctor ...

(1976–present) bar:28 color:FullxF from:1986 till:end bar:29 color:Full from:1980 till:1986 text: Illinois State (1980–present) bar:29 color:FullxF from:1986 till:end bar:30 color:FullxF from:1990 till:end text: Missouri State (1990–present) bar:31 color:FullxF from:1991 till:end text:

Northern Iowa Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois ...

(1991–present) bar:32 color:FullxF from:1994 till:end text: Evansville (1994–present) bar:33 color:AssocOS from:1996 till:2011 text: Eastern Illinois (1996–2011) bar:34 color:AssocOS from:1996 till:1999 text: Valparaiso (1996–1999) bar:34 color:FullxF from:2017 till:end text:(2017–present) bar:35 color:AssocOS from:1997 till:2008 text:

Western Kentucky Western Kentucky is the western portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky. It generally includes part or all of several more widely recognized regions of the state. ;Always included * The Jackson Purchase, the state's westernmost generally recogn ...

(1997–2008) bar:36 color:AssocOS from:1997 till:2006 text: Vanderbilt (1997–2006) bar:37 shift:(-150) color:AssocOS from:1998 till:2000 text:

Little Rock ( The "Little Rock") , government_type = Council-manager , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Frank Scott Jr. , leader_party = D , leader_title2 = Council , leader_name2 ...

(women's soccer, 1998–2000) bar:37 shift:(-60) color:AssocOS from:2013 till:end text:(women's swimming, 2013–present) bar:38 color:AssocOS from:1998 till:2005 text: Drury (1998–2005) bar:39 color:AssocOS from:2000 till:2005 text: SMU (2000–2005) bar:40 color:AssocOS from:2000 till:2001 text:

TCU TCU may stand for: Education * Tanzania Commission for Universities, regulatory body for Universities in Tanzania * Texas Christian University, a private university in Fort Worth, Texas ** TCU Horned Frogs, the athletic programs of the school * Tok ...

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Belmont Belmont may refer to: People * Belmont (surname) Places * Belmont Abbey (disambiguation) * Belmont Historic District (disambiguation) * Belmont Hotel (disambiguation) * Belmont Park (disambiguation) * Belmont Plantation (disambiguation) * Belmon ...

(2000–2001) bar:41 shift:(-20) color:FullXF from:2022 till:end text:(2022–present) bar:42 shift:(-150) color:AssocOS from:2010 till:2017 text: SIU Edwardsville (men's soccer, 2010–2017) bar:42 shift:(-20) color:AssocOS from:2021 till:end text:(2021–present) bar:43 shift:(-80) color:AssocOS from:2010 till:2019 text:

Central Arkansas Central Arkansas, also known as the Little Rock metro, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area, is the most populous metro area in the U.S. state o ...

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Loyola Chicago Loyola University Chicago (Loyola or LUC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1870 by the Society of Jesus, Loyola is one of the largest Catholic universities in the United States. Its namesake is Saint Ignat ...

(2013–2022) bar:45 shift:(-80) color:AssocOS from:2013 till:2022 text:

Dallas Baptist Dallas Baptist University (DBU) is a Christian liberal arts university in Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1898 as Decatur Baptist College, Dallas Baptist University currently operates campuses in Dallas, Plano, and Hurst. History Dallas Baptist ...

(baseball, 2013–2022) bar:46 shift:(-60) color:AssocOS from:2014 till:2016 text:

Hartford Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960. It is the core city in the Greater Hartford metropolitan area. Census estimates since ...

(men's tennis, 2014–2016) bar:47 shift:(-220) color:AssocOS from:2014 till:2022 text: Stony Brook (men's tennis, 2014–2017; women's tennis, 2016–2022) bar:48 shift:(-60) color:AssocOS from:2014 till:2016 text: UMBC (men's tennis, 2014–2016) bar:49 shift:(-90) color:FullxF from:2022 till:end text: Murray State (2022–present) bar:50 shift:(-90) color:FullxF from:2022 till:end text: UIC (2022–present) bar:51 shift:(-160) color:AssocOS from:2022 till:2023 text: Marshall (women's swimming, 2022–2023) bar:52 shift:(-130) color:AssocOS from:2023 till:end text: BGSU (men's soccer, 2023–Present) bar:53 shift:(-130) color:AssocOS from:2023 till:end text: NIU (men's soccer, 2023–Present) bar:54 shift:(-130) color:AssocOS from:2023 till:end text:

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Commissioners

# C. E. McClung (1907–19??) # Arthur (Artie) E. Eilers (1925–1957) # Norvell Neve (1957–1969) # DeWitt T. Weaver (1969–1972) #

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(1972–1979) # David Price (1979–1981) #

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(1981–1985) # James A. Haney (1985–1988) # Doug Elgin (1988 – 2021) # Jeff Jackson (2021 – Present)

Sports

The Missouri Valley Conference sponsors championship competition in seven men's and ten women's NCAA sanctioned sports.

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and Marshall are affiliates for swimming and diving and SIU Edwardsville is an affiliate in men's soccer. The most recent change to the roster of sports was the dropping of men's tennis after the 2016–17 school year due to a lack of participating teams. Two of the four full conference members that sponsored the sport in that season no longer play men's tennis in the MVC. Southern Illinois dropped both men's and women's tennis, and Wichita State joined the American Athletic Conference. Affiliate member Stony Brook dropped men's tennis after the 2016–17 season. The two remaining MVC men's tennis schools from 2016 to 2017, Drake and Illinois State, joined the

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for that sport, and incoming MVC member Valparaiso also joined the Summit League in men's tennis.

Men's sponsored sports by school

Men's varsity sports not sponsored by the Missouri Valley Conference which are played by Valley schools:

Women's sponsored sports by school

Women's varsity sports not sponsored by the Missouri Valley Conference which are played by Valley schools:

Facilities

Future members in gray. ; Note # For the football venues of schools who participate in the sport, see Facilities of the Missouri Valley Football Conference and Facilities of the Pioneer Football League.

Basketball tournament champions by year

The Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament is often referred to as Arch Madness, in reference to the

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at the tournament's present location of St. Louis, Missouri, and a play on " March Madness". The women's tournament is currently promoted as Hoops in the Heartland. NB: Missouri State was known as Southwest Missouri State until August 2005.

Postseason History Multiple Bids

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1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

, (1) Indiana State , (10) New Mexico State , - ,

1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major off ...

, (6) Wichita St , (8) Creighton , - ,

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast As ...

, (4) Tulsa , (8) Illinois State , - ,

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...

, (6) Tulsa , (9) Illinois State , (11) Wichita St , - , 1986 , (7) Bradley , (10) Tulsa , - ,

1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airpor ...

, (11) Wichita St , (11) Tulsa , - , 1988 , (9) Bradley , (12) Wichita St , - ,

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Ma ...

, (11) Southern Illinois , (12) Tulsa , - ,

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake strike ...

, (6) Tulsa , (10) Southern Illinois , - ,

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on b ...

, (8) Bradley , (11) Tulsa , - ,

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school s ...

, (10) Creighton , (12) Southwest Missouri State , (11) Evansville , - ,

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

, (10) Creighton , (12) Indiana State , - ,

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan ...

, (10) Creighton , (13) Indiana State , - ,

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains independence from Indonesia and ...

, (11) Southern Illinois , (12) Creighton , - ,

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, disintegrated during reentry into Atmosphere of Earth, Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an 2002– ...

, (6) Creighton , (11) Southern Illinois , - ,

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

, (9) Southern Illinois , (14) Northern Iowa , - ,

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris (dwarf planet), Er ...

, (7) Southern Illinois , (10) Creighton , (11) Northern Iowa , - , 2006 , (7) Wichita St , (10) Northern Iowa , (11) Southern Illinois , (13) Bradley , - ,

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ...

, (4) Southern Illinois , (10) Creighton , - ,

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

, (5) Wichita St , (8) Creighton , - ,

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment ...

, (7) Creighton , (9) Wichita St , - ,

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the April ...

, (7) Wichita St , (5) Northern Iowa , - , 2016 , (11) Wichita St , (11) Northern Iowa , - ,

2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October 2021 coup in Sudan; Crowd shortly after t ...

, (8) Loyola Chicago , (11) Drake

National team titles by institution

School – Number – NCAA Championships *Belmont *Bradley – 2 *Drake – 3 *Evansville – 0+5* *Illinois State – 0+1* *Indiana State – 1 *Missouri State – 0 +2* *UNI – 1+2* *Southern Illinois – 5+3* *Valparaiso – 0 NCAA Championships as of March 2013 (*-Titles won by schools in Division II/College Division prior to their moving to Division I in the late 1960s or early 1970s.) Football poll, Helms and AIAW titles are not included in the NCAA Championship count.

Men's basketball attendance

''Sources:'' The Valley is well known for having some of the most dedicated fanbases in all of college basketball, with several members regularly selling out their large arenas on a nightly basis throughout the year. Former member (Creighton) had the sixth highest attendance for Division I in 2012–13 while Bradley, Illinois State, Missouri State, and Indiana State were all among the NCAA's top 100 teams in home attendance. In 2010–11, 2011–12, and 2012–13, the Valley maintained its position as the eighth ranked conference in average attendance. The Valley made history in March 2007 with record attendance for four days at St. Louis' Scottrade Center as 85,074 fans turned out to watch the five sessions of the tournament. The two sellout crowds of 22,612 for the semifinals and final of the 2007 State Farm Tournament set an all-time attendance record for basketball at the arena and also gave The Valley the distinction of having the largest championship crowd for any of the 30 NCAA conference tournaments in 2007.

Football champions by year

* All MVC schools that currently play football are part of the

except for Drake and Valparaiso, which play in the Pioneer Football League, and Murray State, which is playing the 2022 football season in its former full-time home of the

before joining the MVFC as a full-time member beginning in the 2023 season.

MVC Network

Since at least 1993, the MVC has produced an in-house package of sports as part of the MVC Network. Since 1996, these telecasts have produced, in part, by Bally Sports Midwest (formally Fox Sports Midwest). These games are distributed to regional sports networks including Bally Sports Midwest, Bally Sports Kansas City, Bally Sports Indiana and NBC Sports Chicago. Until the 2020-21 season, these telecasts also aired on

Fox College Sports Stadium College Sports (formerly Fox College Sports) is a group of three American sports networks. Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios (under the joint venture Diamond Sports Group), the three channels air college and high ...

. Outside of regional networks these telecasts were also available on

ESPN3 ESPN3 (formerly ESPN360 and ESPN3.com) is an online streaming service owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which operates the network, through its 80% controlling ownership interest) and Hearst Communication ...

until the 2018-19 season. These telecasts are now available on

ESPN+ ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). The ...

. The MVC Network is home to the first two rounds of

Arch Madness The State Farm Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament, commonly called Arch Madness, is an annual basketball tournament which features the men's basketball teams of each of the Missouri Valley Conference member universities. The ...

, the nickname for the MVC men's basketball tournament.

References

External links

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