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2016 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2016 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2015–16
Teams 8
Site Nashville Municipal Auditorium
Nashville, Tennessee
Champions Austin Peay (5th title)
Winning coach Dave Loos (4th title)
MVP Chris Horton (Austin Peay)
Television OVCDN/ESPN3, ESPNU, ESPN2
Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments
«2015  2017»
2015–16 Ohio Valley Conference men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
East
Belmont 12 4   .750     20 12   .625
Tennessee State 11 5   .688     20 11   .645
Tennessee Tech 11 5   .688     19 12   .613
Morehead State 11 5   .688     23 14   .622
Eastern Kentucky 6 10   .375     15 16   .484
Jacksonville State 4 12   .250     8 23   .258
West
UT Martin 10 6   .625     20 15   .571
Murray State 10 6   .625     17 14   .548
Eastern Illinois 9 7   .563     13 17   .433
Austin Peay 7 9   .438     18 18   .500
SIU Edwardsville 3 13   .188     6 22   .214
Southeast Missouri St. 2 14   .125     5 24   .172
2016 OVC tournament winner

The 2016 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament will be held March 2–5 at Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.Austin Peay, the #8 seed, won the tournament and earned the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Only the top eight teams in the conference qualified for the Tournament. The #1 and #2 seeds received double byes to the semifinals under the merit-based format. The #3 and #4 seeds received a single bye to the quarterfinals. The #1 and #2 seeds went to the division champions.

Teams were seeded by record within the division and conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.


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