OVC Schedule Unveiled

Editor: The following is part of a press release from ovcsports.com.

(Brentwood, TN) – The Ohio Valley Conference has announced its men’s and women’s basketball conference schedules for the 2022-23 season.

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 Eastern Illinois, Morehead State, Southeast Missouri, SIUE, Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech and UT Martin to make up the 10-team league.

Each school will play an 18-game double round-robin schedule which will begin on Thursday, December 29 and conclude on Saturday, February 25.

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 Conference games and home non-conference contests can be seen on ESPN networks, with the majority of games broadcast on ESPN+.

Editor: The opening night schedule (December 29), features the first-ever OVC home games for Little Rock and Southern Indiana. Lindenwood’s OVC home-opener is on New Year’s Eve. Lindenwood and Southern Indiana were previously members of the Division 2 Great Lakes Valley Conference and meet for the first time as OVC members on January 19.