2012 Ohio Valley Conference men's basketball tournament

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2012 Ohio Valley Conference men's basketball tournament
Classification Division I
Season 201112
Teams8
Site Nashville Municipal Auditorium
Nashville, Tennessee
Champions Murray State (15th title)
Winning coach Steve Prohm (1st title)
MVP Donte Poole (Murray State)
Television ESPN3, ESPNU, ESPN2
  2011
2013  
2011–12 Ohio Valley Conference men's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
No. 12 Murray State151 .938312  .939
Tennessee State 115 .6882013  .606
Morehead State 106 .6251815  .545
Tennessee Tech 97 .5631914  .576
Southeast Missouri State 97 .5631516  .484
Austin Peay 88 .5001220  .375
Jacksonville State 88 .5001518  .455
Eastern Kentucky 79 .4381616  .500
*SIU Edwardsville 610 .3751017  .370
Eastern Illinois 511 .3131217  .414
UT Martin 016 .000427  .129
2012 Ohio Valley Conference tournament winner
As of March 15, 2012
Rankings from AP Poll
* Ineligible for conference tournament

The 2012 Ohio Valley Conference men's basketball tournament began on February 29 and ended on March 3 with Murray State claiming the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. All games were held at Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. [1]

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 received a double bye to the semifinals while the No. 3 and 4 seeds earned a single bye to the quarterfinals. The first round matched the No. 5/8 and No. 6/7 seeds [2] The top eight eligible men's basketball teams in the Ohio Valley Conference received berths in the conference tournament. After the 16-game conference season, teams were seeded by conference record. The winner earned an automatic berth in the 2012 NCAA tournament.

SIU Edwardsville was ineligible for the conference tournament, due to its transition to Division I.

Seeds

The top eight qualified for the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

SeedSchoolConf (Overall)Tiebreaker
#1Murray State15–1 (28–1)
#2Tennessee State11–5 (19–11)
#3Morehead State10–6 (18–14)
#4Tennessee Tech9–7 (19–12)1–0 vs SEMO
#5SE Missouri State9–7 (15–16)0–1 vs TT
#6Austin Peay8–8 (12–20)1–0 vs JSU
#7Jacksonville State8–8 (15–18)0–1 vs AP
#8Eastern Kentucky7–9 (16–16)

Bracket

First round
Wednesday, February 29
Quarterfinals
Thursday, March 1
Semifinals
Friday, March 2
Championship Game
Saturday , March 3
5 Southeast Missouri State 75
8 Eastern Kentucky 65 5 Southeast Missouri State 73
4 Tennessee Tech 77
4 Tennessee Tech 58
1 #12 Murray State 78
1 #12 Murray State 54
6 Austin Peay 70 2 Tennessee State 52
7 Jacksonville State 75 7 Jacksonville State 54
3 Morehead State 68
3 Morehead State 52
2 Tennessee State 59

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References

  1. "2012 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Bracket" (PDF). Retrieved October 10, 2011.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. "Field Set for 2011 OVC men's basketball tournament". ovcsports.com. Ohio Valley Conference. February 26, 2011.