The 2022 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament, popularly referred to as "Arch Madness", was a postseason men's basketball tournament that completed the 2021–22 season in the Missouri Valley Conference. The tournament was held at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Missouri, during March 3–6, 2022. The winner, the Loyola Ramblers, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA tournament.
Seeds Teams were seeded by conference record, with ties broken by the overall record in conference games played between the tied teams, then (if necessary) by comparison of records between the tying institutions versus the top team in the standings (and continuing from top to bottom of standings, as necessary, with the team having the better record against that team receiving the better seed). The top six seeds received openinground byes."MVC Basketball Regular Season Title Eligibility Standard" MVC-Sports.com. Retrieved 2021-02-25.
SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker 1Tiebreaker 2 1 Northern Iowa144 2 Missouri State1353–1 vs. Drake/Loyola Chicago3 Drake1352–2 vs. Missouri State/Loyola Chicago2–0 vs. Loyola Chicago4 Loyola Chicago1351–3 vs. Missouri State/Drake0–2 vs. Drake5 Bradley1176 Southern Illinois997 Valparaiso6128 Illinois State5139 Indiana State414 10 Evansville216
Schedule GameTime *MatchupScoreTelevisionOpening Round Thursday, March 316:00 pm#8 Illinois State vs. #9 Indiana State58–53MVC TV28:30 pm#7 Valparaiso vs. #10 Evansville81–59Quarterfinals Friday, March 4312:00 pm#1 Northern Iowa vs. #8 Illinois State78–65MVC TV42:30 pm#4 Loyola Chicago vs. #5 Bradley66–5056:00 pm#2 Missouri State vs. #7 Valparaiso67–5868:30 pm#3 Drake vs. #6 Southern Illinois65–52Semifinals Saturday, March 572:30 pm#1 Northern Iowa vs. #4 Loyola Chicago43–66CBSSN8 5:00 pm#2 Missouri State vs. #3 Drake78–79 OTFinal Sunday, March 691:00 pm#4 Loyola Chicago vs. #3 Drake64–58CBS/Paramount+* Game times in CST; rankings denote tournament seed.
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