The 2024 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the final event of the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in the Ohio Valley Conference. The tournament was held March 6–9, 2024 at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana. The tournament winner, Morehead State, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
Seeds Only the top eight teams in the conference qualified for the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
If a team that is not eligible for the NCAA Tournament wins the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament, the conference's automatic bid goes to the tournament runner-up. If that team is also not eligible, i.e. two ineligible teams met in the tournament final, the automatic bid goes to the highest seeded tournament-eligible semifinal loser. SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker1Little Rock14–42–1 vs. UT Martin/Morehead State2UT Martin14–42–2 vs. Little Rock/Morehead State3Morehead State14–41–2 vs. UT Martin/Little Rock4Western Illinois13–55Tennessee State10–86SIU Edwardsville9–97Eastern Illinois8–108Southern Indiana5–131–1 vs. Morehead StateDNQTennessee Tech5–130–2 vs. Morehead StateDNQ Southeast Missouri State4–14DNQ Lindenwood3–15
Schedule GameTimeMatchupScoreTelevisionAttendanceFirst Round – Wednesday, March 616:30 pmNo. 5 Tennessee State vs. No. 8 Southern Indiana78–64ESPN+1,18029:00 pmNo. 6 SIU Edwardsville vs. No. 7 Eastern Illinois 68–57Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 736:30 pmNo. 4 Western Illinois vs. No. 5 Tennessee State61–59ESPN+1,14049:00 pmNo. 3 Morehead State vs. No. 6 SIU Edwardsville78-63Semifinals – Friday, March 857:00 pmNo. 1 Little Rock vs. No. 4 Western Illinois82–57ESPNU1,27769:30 pmNo. 2 UT Martin vs. No. 3 Morehead State78–84Championship – Saturday, March 977:00 pmNo. 1 Little Rock vs. No. 3 Morehead State55–69ESPN21,421All game times in Central Time.
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