By Mike Lehman, TTU Sports Information
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – The Ohio Valley Conference has announced its men's and women's basketball conference schedules for the 2024-25 season on Tuesday.
For the second straight year, the league membership includes 11 teams (Eastern Illinois, Lindenwood, Little Rock, Morehead State, Southeast Missouri, SIUE, Southern Indiana, Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech, UT Martin, and Western Illinois).
This year the Conference schedules switch to a true round-robin slate of 20 games (after being 18 games a season ago). The OVC has also had a 20-game league schedule from 2005-06 through 2007-08 and in 2020-21.
With the increased number of games, the schedule will begin prior to Christmas, with 11 games between December 17 and December 21. The regular season will conclude on Saturday, March 1.
The 2025 OVC Men's and Women's Basketball Tournament is slated for March 5-8 at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana. It marks the eighth 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 in year three of the reclassification process to Division I. Should a transitioning school win an OVC Tournament Championship, the AQ shall be awarded to the tournament runner-up. Should the runner-up not be eligible, the AQ representative shall be the semifinalist with the highest remaining seed going into the tournament.
Tennessee Tech will release their non-conference slates of games soon. All Conference 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. All dates are subject to change.