ST. LOUIS – Illinois State – as the No. 3 seed – will tip off the 2016 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Friday, March 4 at 8:30 p.m. versus No. 6-seeded Indiana State at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, according to the 2016 Arch Madness bracket which was released by the league office Sunday morning.
Illinois State (18-13, 12-6) and Evansville (23-8, 12-6) tied for second place in the final league standings, forcing a tie-breaker to determine which team would earn the higher MVC Tournament seed. Because the two teams split their regular-season series against one another, the tie was broken based on Jim Sukup's Collegiate Basketball News RPI Report, released Sunday morning.