The 2022 Ohio Valley Conference men's basketball tournament was the conference tournament concluding the 2021–22 season of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC). The entire tournament, contested during March 2–5, 2022, was played at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana. The winner, the Murray State Racers, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA tournament.
Seeds Only the top eight teams in the conference qualified for the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The first tiebreaker was head-to-head results between the tied teams and the second tiebreaker was comparing each team's record against individual teams in the conference starting with the top-ranked team and working down until they are no longer tied. SeedSchoolConf.Tiebreaker1Murray State18–02Belmont15–33Morehead State13–54Southeast Missouri State8–95Tennessee State8–101–1 v. Austin Peay; 0–2 v. Murray State; 0–2 v. Belmont; 0–2 v. Morehead State; 1–1 v. Southeast Missouri State; 2–0 v. Tennessee Tech6Austin Peay8–101–1 v. Tennessee State; 0–2 v. Murray State; 0–2 v. Belmont; 0–2 v. Morehead State; 1–1 v. Southeast Missouri State; 1–1 v. Tennessee Tech7Tennessee Tech7–108SIU Edwardsville5–13
Schedule GameTimeMatchupScoreTelevisionFirst Round – Wednesday, March 216:30 pmNo. 5 Tennessee State vs. No. 8 SIU Edwardsville 77–62ESPN+29:00 pmNo. 6 Austin Peay vs. No. 7 Tennessee Tech 75–68Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 336:30 pmNo. 4 Southeast Missouri State vs. No. 5 Tennessee State 79–55ESPN+49:00 pmNo. 3 Morehead State vs. No. 7 Tennessee Tech 73–56Semifinals – Friday, March 457:00 pmNo. 1 Murray State vs. No. 4 Southeast Missouri State88–74ESPNU69:30 pmNo. 2 Belmont vs. No. 3 Morehead State53–51Championship – Saturday, March 577:30 pmNo. 1 Murray State vs. No. 3 Morehead State71–67ESPN2All game times in Central Time.
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* denotes number of overtime periods
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