The 2018 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament, popularly referred to as "Arch Madness", was the postseason men's basketball tournament that completed the
2017–18 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 the
Enterprise Center
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, in
St. Louis, Missouri
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from March 1–4, 2018.
The Tournament marked the first tournament with
Valparaiso as a member of the MVC, having replaced
Wichita State
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when the Shockers joined the
American Athletic Conference
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in June 2017.
The tournament's top seed,
Loyola–Chicago defeated the No. 3 seed
Illinois State in the championship game to receive the Missouri Valley's automatic bid to the
NCAA tournament.
Seeds
Teams were seeded by conference record, with ties broken by overall record in conference games played between the tied teams, then (if necessary) by overall adjusted RPI on the day following the conclusion of the regular season as calculated in Collegiate Basketball News' Men's RPI Report. The top six seeds received opening round byes.
With a win at
Southern Illinois
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on February 21,
Loyola–Chicago clinched the outright MVC championship and the No. 1 seed.
Schedule
Tournament bracket
* denotes overtime period
References
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2017–18 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball season
Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament