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.
Seeds 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."State Farm MVC Tournament Men's Basketball Tiebreaker" MVC-Sports.com. Retrieved 2025-02-28. 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, the day following the end of regular-season conference play. SeedSchoolConferenceRecordTiebreaker(s)1Drake17–32Bradley15–53Northern Iowa14–64Belmont13–75Illinois State10–10NET ranking of 1236UIC10–10NET ranking of 1457Murray State9–118Southern Illinois8–12NET ranking of 1979 Indiana State8–12NET ranking of 20310Evansville8–12NET ranking of 24311Valparaiso6–1412Missouri State2–18
Schedule GameTime *MatchupScoreAttendanceTelevisionOpening Round Thursday, March 6112:00 pmNo. 8 Southern Illinois vs. No. 9 Indiana State86–854,402MVC TVNetwork/ESPN+22:30 pmNo. 5 Illinois State vs. No. 12 Missouri State70–5436:00 pmNo. 7 Murray State vs. No. 10 Evansville 74–533,84948:30 pmNo. 6 UIC vs. No. 11 Valparaiso50–67Quarterfinals Friday, March 7512:00 pmNo. 1 Drake vs. No. 8 Southern Illinois70–536,005MVC TVNetwork/ESPN+62:30 pmNo. 4 Belmont vs. No. 5 Illinois State76–6376:00 pmNo. 2 Bradley vs. No. 7 Murray State70–626,09088:30 pmNo. 3 Northern Iowa vs. No. 11 Valparaiso63–64Semifinals Saturday, March 892:30 pmNo. 1 Drake vs. No. 4 Belmont57–507,779CBSSN105:00 pmNo. 2 Bradley vs. No. 11 Valparaiso70–65Final Sunday, March 9111:15 pmNo. 1 Drake vs. No. 2 Bradley63–487,952CBS/Paramount+* Game times in CST through the semifinals and CDT for the championship; rankings denote tournament seed.
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