Bracket This year's tournament - the 10th neutral-site event in the conference's history - begins on Thursday, March 9. The top seed has won the conference tournament in 17 of 31 seasons and a team that has won or shared the regular-season title has gone on to win the tournament title 20 times. Top seeds have five runner-up finishes. Teams seeded No.
ST. LOUIS – No. 5-seed Wichita State will play No. 4-seed Southern Illinois in the 2:30 p.m., quarterfinal game Friday at the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament in the iWireless Center in Moline, Ill