2016 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
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The 2016 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament, popularly referred to as "Arch Madness", was the
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's postseason tournament which was held March 3–6, 2016 at the
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in
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. The tournament was won by
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, who defeated
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in the championship game. As a result, Northern Iowa received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.


Seeds

Teams were seeded by conference record, with ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by non-conference strength of schedule, if necessary. The top six seeds received first round byes.


Schedule


Tournament bracket

* denotes overtime period


References

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