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Missouri State seeded 7th will face 10th seeded Drake to open men’s Missouri Valley Tournament

February 28, 2016 By Bill Pollock

For the fourth time in five seasons (and sixth time overall), the Wichita State Shockers (23-7, 16-2) will enter the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference men’s basketball tournament as the event’s No. 1 seed. In the tournament’s 25-year history in St. Louis, Wichita State has been the No. 1 seed four times previously (2006, 2012, 2014, 2015) winning the tournament title in 2014, while losing in the semifinals the three other times.

THURSDAY, MARCH 3
6:00 pm — Game 1 (#8 Loyola vs. #9 Bradley)
8:30 pm — Game 2 (#7 Missouri State vs. #10 Drake)

FRIDAY, MARCH 4
12:00 pm — GAME 3 (#1 Wichita State vs. Game 1 winner)
2:30 pm* — GAME 4 (#4 UNI vs. #5 Southern Illinois)
6:00 pm — GAME 5 (#2 Evansville vs. Game 2 winner)
8:30 pm* — GAME 6 (#3 Illinois State vs. #6 Indiana State)

SATURDAY, MARCH 5
2:30 pm — GAME 7 (Game 3 & 4 winners)
5:00 pm* — GAME 8 (Game 5 & 6 winners)

SUNDAY, MARCH 6
1:00 pm — MVC Championship Game

* Times of second games of sessions are approximate

This is the 10th Wichita State MVC men’s basketball regular-season title, and the fourth one under head coach Gregg Marshall, the most by a Shocker coach in program history. The Shockers have won 3-straight outright MVC crowns for the first time in its history (going 51-3 over the past three years in league play).

Notably, Wichita State is just the second MVC team in the last 46 years to three-peat, joining Southern Illinois (four-in-a-row from 2001-02 to 2004-05). Wichita State’s 10 MVC men’s basketball titles all-time is tops among active league members ahead of Southern Illinois (8), Drake (7) and Bradley (6). Oklahoma State and Creighton lead all-time with 15 overall crowns in men’s hoops.

Evansville (23-8, 12-6) and Illinois State (18-13, 12-6) tied for second place in the league race this year, and the Aces won the tiebreaker (better RPI) to take the No. 2 seed. It’s Illinois State’s highest regular-season finish since 2008 and the highest for Evansville since it won the MVC regular-season title in 1999. Additionally, the Aces have been as high as a No. 2 seed in the MVC Tournament just once previously (No. 1 in 1999). The last time ISU was as high as a No. 3 seed in the tourney was in 2010 (the Redbirds were also a No. 3 that year.)

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