The 2025 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the final event of the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in the Ohio Valley Conference. The tournament was held March 5–8, 2025 at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana. The tournament winner, SIU Edwardsville, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.

Seeds Only the top eight teams in the conference will qualify for the tournament. Teams will be seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

Because Southern Indiana and Lindenwood are ineligible for the NCAA Tournament, the conference's automatic bid goes to the tournament runner-up if either wins the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament. If that team is also not eligible, i.e. both ineligible teams met in the tournament final, the automatic bid goes to the higher-seeded tournament-eligible semifinal loser.

SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker1Southeast Missouri State15–52SIU Edwardsville13–73Tennessee State12–82–0 vs. Little Rock4Little Rock12–80–2 vs. Tennessee State5Tennessee Tech10–103–1 vs. Lindenwood/Morehead State6Lindenwood10–102–2 vs. Tennessee Tech/Morehead State7Morehead State10–101–3 vs. Tennessee Tech/Lindenwood8UT Martin9–11DNQEastern Illinois8–12DNQWestern Illinois6–14DNQSouthern Indiana5–15

Schedule GameTimeMatchupScoreTelevision First Round – Wednesday, March 516:00 pmNo. 5 Tennessee Tech vs. No. 8 UT Martin67–70 ESPN+28:30 pmNo. 6 Lindenwood vs. No. 7 Morehead State73–65 Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 636:00 pmNo. 4 Little Rock vs. No. 8 UT Martin82–77 ESPN+48:30 pmNo. 3 Tennessee State vs. No. 6 Lindenwood69–55 Semifinals – Friday, March 757:00 pmNo. 1 Southeast Missouri State vs. No. 4 Little Rock78–59 ESPNU69:30 pmNo. 2 SIU Edwardsville vs. No. 3 Tennessee State71–69 Championship – Saturday, March 878:00 pmNo. 1 Southeast Missouri State vs. No. 2 SIU Edwardsville48–69ESPN2All game times in CST.

Bracket

All-Tournament Team Source: Ray’Sean Taylor, SIUE (MVP) Ring Malith, SIUE Myles Thompson, SIUE Rob Martin, Southeast Missouri Mwani Wilkinson, Little Rock

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