The 1999
Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament
The State Farm Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament, commonly called Gateway Arch, Arch Madness, is an annual college basketball, basketball tournament which features the men's basketball teams of each of the Missouri Valley Con ...
was played after the conclusion of the 1998–1999 regular season at the
Kiel Center
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in
St. Louis, Missouri
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.
The
Creighton defeated the
Evansville
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in the championship game, 70–61, and as a result won their 5th MVC Tournament title and earned an automatic bid to the
1999 NCAA tournament.
Rodney Buford of Creighton was named the tournament MVP.
Tournament Bracket
See also
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Missouri Valley Conference
The Missouri Valley Conference (also called MVC or simply "The Valley") is the fourth-oldest collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference in the United States. The conference's members are primarily located in the Midwestern Unite ...
References
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