2019 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament


The 2019 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the final event of the 2018–19 season in the Ohio Valley Conference. The tournament was held March 6 through March 9, 2019 at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana.
The final featured the regular-season co-champions in Belmont and Murray State, with Murray State winning 77–65 and thus earning the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Seeds

Only the top eight teams in the conference qualified for the tournament. Teams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The No. 1 and No. 2 seeds receive double byes to the semifinals. The No. 3 and No. 4 seeds receive a single bye to the quarterfinals.
SeedSchoolConf.Tiebreaker
1Belmont16–21–0 vs. Murray State
2Murray State16–20–1 vs. Belmont
3Jacksonville State15–3
4Austin Peay13–5
5Morehead State8–10
6Eastern Illinois7–11
7UT Martin6–12Combined 3–2 vs. SIU Edwardsville, EKU, & TSU
8SIU Edwardsville6–12Combined 2–2 vs. UT Martin, EKU, & TSU, 1–0 vs. EKU

Schedule

Bracket