Great Lakes Valley Conference men's basketball tournament

The Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) men's basketball tournament is the annual men's basketball championship tournament for the Great Lakes Valley Conference. The tournament was established in 1998, twenty years after the conference was founded in 1978. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records.[1]

Great Lakes Valley Conference men's basketball tournament
Conference basketball championship
SportBasketball
ConferenceGreat Lakes Valley Conference
FormatSingle-elimination tournament
Played1998–present
Current championWilliam Jewell (1st)
Most championshipsBellarmine (5), Kentucky Wesleyan (5)
Official websiteGLVC men's basketball

The tournament bracket has included as few as seven teams and as many as fifteen. The most common format has featured eight teams competing at the same predesignated neutral site as the GLVC women's basketball tournament. In 1998, 2008, 2009, and 2021, the quarterfinals were played on campus sites and the final four was held on the home court of the highest seed surviving the quarterfinals.

The tournament winner is conference champion and receives the GLVC's automatic bid to the NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament.

Former members Kentucky Wesleyan and Bellarmine have won the most tournaments, with five apiece.

Results

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Year Champions Score Runner-up Site
1998 Kentucky Wesleyan 94–81 Southern Indiana Sportscenter (Owensboro, KY)
1999 Kentucky Wesleyan 95–84 Southern Indiana Roberts Stadium (Evansville, IN)
2000 Kentucky Wesleyan 90–88 Southern Indiana
2001 Kentucky Wesleyan 91–74 Southern Indiana
2002 Lewis 77–65 Kentucky Wesleyan
2003 Northern Kentucky 58–55 Lewis
2004 Kentucky Wesleyan 72–71 (OT) Lewis
2005 Southern Indiana 79–49 Northern Kentucky
2006 Saint Joseph's 68–67 Quincy
2007 Southern Indiana 63–61 Northern Kentucky
2008 Drury 89–87 (OT) Lewis Weiser Gym, Drury University (Springfield, MO)
2009 Northern Kentucky 69–47 Bellarmine PAC Arena, University of Southern Indiana (Evansville, IN)
2010 Bellarmine 79–69 Kentucky Wesleyan The Recreation and Athletic Center,
University of Illinois - Springfield (Springfield, IL)
2011 Bellarmine 87–81 OT) Southern Indiana Moloney Arena, Maryville University (Town and Country, MO)
2012 Southern Indiana 60–56 Northern Kentucky Prairie Capital Convention Center (Springfield, IL)
2013 Drury 71–65 Southern Indiana Ford Center (Evansville, IN)
2014 Southern Indiana 86–73 Bellarmine
2015 Drury 77–70 Bellarmine Family Arena (St. Charles, MO)
2016 Lewis 80–71 Wisconsin–Parkside
2017 Bellarmine 74–61 Lewis Ford Center (Evansville, IN)
2018 Bellarmine 75–61 Truman State Vadalabene Center (Edwardsville, IL)
2019 Bellarmine 65-48 Drury
2020 Truman State 53–52 Missouri–St. Louis
2021 Lewis 76–71 Drury Mark Twain Building, University of Missouri - St. Louis (St. Louis, MO)
2022 Missouri–St. Louis 66–56 Indianapolis Vadalabene Center (Edwardsville, IL)
2023 McKendree 62–51 Missouri-St. Louis Hyland Performance Arena (St. Charles, MO)
2024 William Jewell 83-65 Lewis

Championship records

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School Finals Record Finals Appearances Championship Years
Kentucky Wesleyan 5–2 7 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004
Bellarmine 5–3 8 2010, 2011, 2017, 2018, 2019
Southern Indiana 4–6 10 2005, 2007, 2012, 2014
Lewis 3–5 8 2002, 2016, 2021
Drury 3–2 5 2008, 2013, 2015
Northern Kentucky 2–3 5 2003, 2009
Missouri–St. Louis 1–2 3 2022
Truman State 1–1 2 2020
McKendree 1–0 1 2023
William Jewell 1–0 1 2024
Saint Joseph's 1–0 1 2006
Indianapolis 0–1 1
Quincy 0–1 1
Wisconsin–Parkside 0–1 1

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "GLVC Men's Basketball Archive". Year-by-year records. GLVC. 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.