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2025 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament

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2025 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament
Tournament logo
ClassificationDivision I
Season2024–25
Teams12
SiteEnterprise Center
St. Louis, Missouri
ChampionsDrake (4th title)
Winning coachBen McCollum (1st title)
MVPBennett Stirtz (Drake)
Attendance36,077 (Total)
7,952 (Final)
TelevisionCBS/Paramount+, CBSSN,
MVC TV Network/ESPN+
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2024–25 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball standings
Conf.Overall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Drake †17–3 .85031–4  .886
Bradley15–5 .75028–9  .757
Northern Iowa14–6 .70020–13  .606
Belmont13–7 .65022–11  .667
Illinois State10–10 .50022–14  .611
UIC10–10 .50017–14  .548
Murray State9–11 .45016–17  .485
Southern Illinois8–12 .40014–19  .424
Indiana State8–12 .40014–18  .438
Evansville8–12 .40011–21  .344
Valparaiso6–14 .30015–19  .441
Missouri State2–18 .1009–23  .281
† 2025 MVC tournament winner

The 2025 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, popularly referred to as "Arch Madness", was a postseason men's basketball tournament that completed the 2024–25 season in the Missouri Valley Conference. The tournament was held at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Missouri from March 6–9, 2025. The winner, Drake, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Tournament.

Teams are seeded by conference record.

Two-way ties are broken by utilizing head-to-head record; should a tie still remain, the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) rankings the day following all conference teams having completed their regular season will be used.

Three (or more) way ties are broken by first determining the cumulative record for each tied team versus the other teams with the same conference record. Should any teams still remain tied (and there are more than two), the cumulative record would again be used on those remaining teams; should any teams still remain (and there are only two), the two-way approach would be leveraged.

The top four seeds receive opening-round byes.[1] Since none of the ties in the standings could be broken using head-to-head records, they were all resolved using NET rankings as of March 3, 2025,[2] the day following the end of regular-season conference play.

Seed School Conference
Record
Tiebreaker(s)
1 Drake 17–3
2 Bradley 15–5
3 Northern Iowa 14–6
4 Belmont 13–7
5 Illinois State 10–10 NET ranking of 123
6 UIC 10–10 NET ranking of 145
7 Murray State 9–11
8 Southern Illinois 8–12 NET ranking of 197
9 Indiana State 8–12 NET ranking of 203
10 Evansville 8–12 NET ranking of 243
11 Valparaiso 6–14
12 Missouri State 2–18

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