2011 Ohio Valley Conference men's basketball tournament

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2011 Ohio Valley Conference men's basketball tournament
Classification Division I
Season 201011
Teams8
Site Nashville Municipal Auditorium
Nashville, Tennessee
Champions Morehead State (4th title)
Winning coach Donnie Tyndall (2nd title)
Television ESPNU, ESPN2
  2010
2012  
2010–11 Ohio Valley Conference men's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Murray State 144 .778239  .719
Morehead State135 .722259  .735
Austin Peay 135 .7222014  .588
Tennessee Tech 126 .6672013  .606
Tennessee State 108 .5561416  .467
Eastern Kentucky 99 .5001516  .484
UT Martin 612 .3331221  .364
Southeast Missouri State 612 .3331022  .313
Eastern Illinois 414 .222920  .310
Jacksonville State 315 .167525  .167
SIU Edwardsville*00 821  .276
2011 OVC tournament winner
As of March 17, 2011
* Ineligible (in transition)

Rankings from AP Poll

The 2011 Ohio Valley Conference men's basketball tournament occurred March 2, 3, 4, and 5. All tournament games took place at Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.

Contents

Format

The format for the tournament was changed, beginning with the 2011 tournament. Seeding changed to a merit-based system where the No. 1 and 2 seeds receive a double bye to the semifinals while the No. 3 and 4 seeds get a single bye to the quarterfinals (a system that has been used since 2003 in the West Coast Conference). The first round will match up the No. 5/8 and No. 6/7 seeds. [1] The top eight eligible men's basketball teams in the Ohio Valley Conference receive a berth in the conference tournament. After the 18-game conference season, teams were seeded by conference record. The winner earned an automatic berth in the 2011 NCAA tournament.

Seeds

Only eight Ohio Valley schools qualified for the tournament. Teams were seeded by 2010–11 Ohio Valley Conference record, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

Through games of Feb. 26, 2011, the seeds are as follows after implementing tiebreakers:

SeedSchoolConf (Overall)Tiebreaker
#1 Murray State 14–4 (23–7)
#2 Morehead State 13–5 (22–9)1–1 vs AP
#3 Austin Peay 13–5 (19–12)1–1 vs MORE
#4 Tennessee Tech 12–6 (18–11)
#5 Tennessee State 10–8 (14–15)
#6 Eastern Kentucky 9–9 (15–15)
#7 Southeast Missouri State 6–12 (9–21)
#8 Tennessee-Martin 6–12 (11–20)
Eastern Illinois 4–14 (9–20)
Jacksonville State 3–15 (5–25)
SIU-Edwardsville 0–0 (8–21)

Bracket

First round
Wednesday, March 2
Quarterfinals
Thursday, March 3
Semifinals
Friday, March 4
Championship
Saturday , March 5
5 Tennessee State 64
8 UT Martin 68 8 UT Martin 59
4 Tennessee Tech 83
4 Tennessee Tech 64
1 Murray State 59
4 Tennessee Tech 73
6 Eastern Kentucky 49 2 Morehead State 80
7 Southeast Missouri State 65 7 Southeast Missouri State 60
3 Austin Peay 76
3 Austin Peay 49
2 Morehead State 68

Outcome

Morehead State defeated Tennessee Tech, 80–73 in the final of the Ohio Valley Conference tournament in Nashville. They moved on to their second NCAA tournament in the past three years and fourth overall. In the tournament, they upset Louisville in the first round before losing to Richmond in the second round. The favorite to face Morehead St. in the finals was the #1 seed and their top rival, Murray St., but they lost to Tennessee Tech in semifinals, 64–59.

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References

  1. "Field Set for 2011 OVC men's basketball tournament". ovcsports.com. Ohio Valley Conference. February 26, 2011.