2. If three or more teams are tied, regular-season competition among the tied teams shall be pooled into a “mini round-robin.” Teams shall be ranked according to their position in such a round-robin.
3. Power rating using MVC games:
Team place
Road Win
Home Win
1st
20 pts.
19 pts.
2nd
18 pts.
17 pts.
3rd
16 pts.
15 pts.
4th
14 pts.
13 pts.
5th
12 pts.
11 pts.
6th
10 pts.
19 pts.
7th
8 pts.
7 pts.
8th
6pts.
5 pts.
9th
4 pts.
3 pts.
10th
2 pts.
1 pts.
4. The most recently available NCAA RPI ranking.
Seeds
2017 Missouri Valley Conference women's basketball tournament seeds and results
Seed
School
Conf.
Over.
Tiebreaker
1
‡ Drake
18–0
25–4
2
# Northern Iowa
15–3
22–7
3
# Missouri State
12–6
16–13
4
# Southern Illinois
10–8
16–13
5
# Wichita State
9–9
14–15
6
# Evansville
8–10
13–16
7
Bradley
7–11
11–18
8
Indiana State
6–12
12–17
9
Illinois State
4–14
7–22
10
Loyola–Chicago
1–17
2–27
‡ – Missouri Valley Conference regular season champions, and tournament No. 1 seed. # - Received a single-bye in the conference tournament. Overall records include all games played in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament.
Schedule
Session
Game
Time*
Matchup#
Television
Attendance
First round – Thursday, March 9
1
1
4:00 pm
#9 Illinois State vs #8 Indiana State
ESPN3
2
7:00 pm
#7 Bradley vs #10 Loyola–Chicago
Quarterfinals – Friday, March 10
2
3
12:00 pm
#1 Drake vs #9 Illinois State
ESPN3
1,360
4
2:30 pm
#5 Wichita State vs #4 Southern Illinois
3
5
6:00 pm
#2 Northern Iowa vs #7 Bradley
1,404
6
8:30 pm
#3 Missouri State vs #6 Evansville
Semifinals – Saturday, March 11
4
7
1:30 pm
#1 Drake vs #5 Wichita State
ESPN3
2,181
8
4:00 pm
#2 Northern Iowa vs #6 Evansville
Final – Sunday, March 12
5
9
2:00 pm
#1 Drake vs #2 Northern Iowa
ESPN3
*Game Times in CT. #-Rankings denote tournament seed