ST. LOUIS - Indiana State women's basketball enters the 2017 Missouri Valley Conference Tournament as the No. 8 seed and will take on No. 9 Illinois State in the opening round Thursday, March 9 at 5 p.m. ET in the Quad Cities.
Drake, which clinched its sixth Missouri Valley Conference women's basketball regular-season title in program history, has earned the No. 1 seed in next week's MVC Tournament. The Bulldogs finished the regular-season with a record of 25-4, including the conference's first ever perfect 18-0 mark in league play. Drake closed out the season on a 19-game winning streak.