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2017 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2017 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2016–17
Teams 8
Site Nashville Municipal Auditorium
Nashville, Tennessee
Champions Jacksonville State (1st title)
Winning coach Ray Harper (1st title)
MVP Malcolm Drumwright (Jacksonville State)
Television OVCDN/ESPN3, ESPNU, ESPN2
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2016–17 Ohio Valley Conference men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
East
Belmont 15 1   .938     23 7   .767
Morehead State 10 6   .625     14 16   .467
Jacksonville State 9 7   .563     20 15   .571
Tennessee State 8 8   .500     17 13   .567
Tennessee Tech 8 8   .500     12 20   .375
Eastern Kentucky 5 11   .313     12 19   .387
West
UT Martin 10 6   .625     22 13   .629
Southeast Missouri St. 9 7   .563     15 18   .455
Murray State 8 8   .500     16 17   .485
Austin Peay 7 9   .438     11 19   .367
Eastern Illinois 6 10   .375     14 15   .483
SIU Edwardsville 1 15   .063     6 24   .200
2017 OVC Tournament winner

The 2017 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the conference tournament for the Ohio Valley Conference. The tournament was held March 1–4, 2017 at Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.Jacksonville State defeated UT Martin, 66–55, in championship game to win the tournament and earn the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Only the top eight teams in the conference qualified for the Tournament. The No. 1 and No. 2 seeds went to the division champions. The No. 1 and No. 2 seeds also received double byes to the semifinals under the merit-based format. The No. 3 and No. 4 seeds received a single bye to the quarterfinals.

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

* denotes number of overtime periods


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