2026 Missouri Valley Conference women's basketball tournament

The 2026 Missouri Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, was a postseason women's basketball tournament that completed the 2025–26 season in the Missouri Valley Conference. The tournament was held at the Xtream Arena for the first time in Coralville, Iowa March 12-15, 2026.

Seeds Teams are seeded by their conference record.

Two-way ties are broken by utilizing head-to-head record; should a tie still remain, the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) rankings the day following all conference teams having completed their regular season will be used.

Three (or more) way ties are broken by first determining the cumulative record for each tied team versus the other teams with the same conference record. Should any teams still remain tied (and there are more than two), the cumulative record would again be used on those remaining teams; should any teams still remain (and there are only two), the two-way approach would be leveraged."State Farm MVC Tournament Men’s Basketball Tiebreaker" MVC-Sports.com. Retrieved 2026-02-19. SeedSchoolConferenceRecordTiebreaker(1) 1Murray State 19–1 2 Belmont 16–4 3 Illinois State 13–7 3–1 vs. Northern Iowa and Bradley 4 Northern Iowa 13–7 2–2 vs. Illinois State and Bradley 5 Bradley 13–7 1–3 vs. Illinois State and Northern Iowa 6 Drake 10–10 7 UIC 9–11 8 Southern Illinois 7–13 9 Indiana State 5–15 2–0 vs. Evansville 10 Evansville 5–15 0–2 vs. Indiana State 11 Valparaiso 0–20

Schedule SessionGameTime *MatchupScoreAttendanceTelevisionOpening Round March 12I13:30 pmNo. 8 Southern Illinois vs. No. 9 Indiana State69–81912ESPN+26:00 pmNo. 7 UIC vs. No. 10 Evansville71–7638:30 pmNo. 6 Drake vs. No. 11 Valparaiso55–81Quarterfinals March 13II412:00 pmNo. 1 Murray State vs. No. 9 Indiana State105–881,074ESPN+52:30 pmNo. 4 Northern Iowa vs. No. 5 Bradley74–73III66:00 pmNo. 2 Belmont vs. No. 10 Evansville63–7695478:30 pmNo. 3 Illinois State vs. No. 6 Drake69–62Semifinals March 14IV81:30 pmNo. 1 Murray State vs. No. 4 Northern Iowa72-591,382ESPN+94:00 pmNo. 3 Illinois State vs. No. 10 Evansville70-75OTFinal March 15V101:00 p.m.No. 1 Murray State vs. No. 10 Evansville91–70854ESPN2* Game times in Central Time Zone; rankings denote tournament seed.

Bracket

* denotes overtime period

References