SIUE Ohio Valley Conference Basketball Schedules

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Published on July 15 2022 6:16 am
Last Updated on July 15 2022 6:16 am

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. -- The Ohio Valley Conference announced its men's and women's basketball conference schedules Thursday for the 2022-23 season.

SIUE will play an 18-game double round-robin schedule which will begin on Thursday, Dec. 29 and conclude on Saturday, Feb. 25. The full nonconference schedule will be released at a later date.

This year, which is the 75th year of competition in the OVC, marks the first in the League for Lindenwood, Little Rock and Southern Indiana who became official members on July 1. They join SIUE, Eastern Illinois, Morehead State, Southeast Missouri, Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech and UT Martin to make up the 10-team league.
The 2023 OVC Men's and Women's Basketball Tournament is slated for March 1-4 at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana. It marks the sixth year in a row the event will be held at the venue.

Each OVC school is eligible to compete and win the OVC Tournament Championship, including Lindenwood and Southern Indiana, who are beginning the reclassification process to Division I. It was previously announced that should a transitioning school win an OVC Tournament Championship, the AQ shall be awarded to the tournament runner-up. Should the tournament runner-up also be a transitioning school, the AQ representative shall be the highest seed going into the tournament.

All OVC men's and women's games and home non-conference contests can be seen on ESPN networks, with the majority of games broadcast on ESPN+. Additional linear exposures on ESPNU and ESPN2 will be announced at a later date.