The 2017 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament, popularly referred to as "Arch Madness", was the postseason men's basketball tournament that completed the
2016–17 season in the
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 ...
. The tournament was held at the Scottrade Center, now known as
Enterprise Center
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, in
St. Louis, Missouri
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from March 2–5, 2017.
Wichita State
Wichita State University (WSU) is a public university, 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 ...
defeated
Illinois State in the championship game and earned the conference's automatic bid to the
NCAA tournament.
This was the last MVC tournament for Wichita State, as it would leave its conference home of nearly 70 years to join the
American Athletic Conference
The American Athletic Conference (AAC), also known as The American, is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference in the United States, featuring 13 full member universities and 6 affiliate member universities that compete in t ...
in July 2017.
Seeds
Teams were seeded by conference record, with ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by overall adjusted RPI, if necessary. The top six seeds received first-round byes.
Schedule
Tournament bracket
References
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2016–17 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball season
Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament