2023 Missouri Valley Conference women's basketball tournament

The 2023 Missouri Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, marketed as "Hoops in the Heartland", was a postseason women's basketball tournament that completed the 2022–23 season in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC). The tournament was held at the Vibrant Arena at The MARK in Moline, Illinois, from March 9–12, 2023. Drake won the tournament, claiming the MVC's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

For the first time, the tournament featured 12 teams. Belmont, Murray State, and UIC joined the conference in 2022 following Loyola Chicago's exit.

Seeds Teams are seeded by conference record, with ties broken by the overall record in conference games played between the tied teams, then (if necessary) by comparison of records between the tying institutions versus the top team in the standings (and continuing from top to bottom of standings, as necessary, with the team having the better record against that team receiving the better seed). The top four seeds receive opening-round byes."MVC Basketball Regular Season Title Eligibility Standard" MVC-Sports.com. Retrieved 2021-02-25. SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker 11Illinois State17-31-0 vs. Belmont2Belmont17-30-1 vs. Illinois State3Northern Iowa16-44Drake14-61-1 vs. Belmont5 Missouri State 14-60-2 vs. Belmont6UIC9-117Southern Illinois8-128Murray State7-139Evansville6-142-0 vs. Indiana State10Indiana State6-140-2 vs. Evansville11Valparaiso5-1512 Bradley1-19

Schedule GameTime *MatchupScoreTelevisionOpening Round Thursday, March 9112:00 pmNo. 8 Murray State vs. No. 9 Evansville88–46MVC TV22:30 pmNo. 5 Missouri State vs. No. 12 Bradley71–5336:00 pmNo. 7 Southern Illinois vs. No. 10 Indiana State81–7948:30 pmNo. 6 UIC vs. No. 11 Valparaiso72–47Quarterfinals Friday, March 10512:00 pmNo. 1 Illinois State vs. No. 8 Murray State75–73MVC TV62:30 pmNo. 4 Drake vs. No. 5 Missouri State73–7076:00 pmNo. 2 Belmont vs. No. 7 Southern Illinois70–6488:30 pmNo. 3 Northern Iowa vs. No. 6 UIC73–57Semifinals Saturday, March 1191:30 pmNo. 1 Illinois State vs. No. 4 Drake54–74MVC Network104:00 pmNo. 2 Belmont vs. No. 3 Northern Iowa69–62Final Sunday, March 12111:00 pmNo. 2 Belmont vs. No. 4 Drake71–89ESPNU*Game times in CST. Rankings denote tournament seed.

Bracket

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