BRENTWOOD, Tenn. \u2013 The Ohio Valley Conference has announced its men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball conference schedules for the 2025-26 season on Thursday.<\/p>\n
For the third-straight year, the league membership includes 11 teams (Eastern Illinois, Lindenwood, Little Rock, Morehead State, Southeast Missouri, SIUE, Southern Indiana, Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech, UT Martin and Western Illinois).<\/p>\n
This year, the Conference schedules once again feature a true round-robin slate of 20 games.<\/p>\n
Each team will play two games prior to Christmas; the schedule picks back up on December 30 and continues until Saturday, February 28.<\/p>\n
The 2026 OVC Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Basketball Tournament is slated for March 4-7 at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana. It marks the ninth year in a row the event will be held at the venue.<\/p>\n
All Conference games and home non-conference contests can be seen on ESPN networks, with the majority of games broadcast on ESPN+. Additional linear exposures on ESPNU and ESPN2 will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n
All dates are subject to change.<\/p>\n
2025-26 Ohio Valley Conference Basketball Schedule<\/p>\n
Saturday, December 6<\/p>\n
Lindenwood at Eastern Illinois (Men’s Game)<\/p>\n
Tuesday, December 16<\/p>\n
Little Rock at Morehead State<\/p>\n
Thursday, December 18<\/p>\n
SIUE at Eastern Illinois<\/p>\n
Western Illinois at Lindenwood<\/p>\n
Little Rock at Southern Indiana<\/p>\n
Southeast Missouri at Tennessee Tech<\/p>\n
UT Martin at Tennessee State<\/p>\n
Saturday, December 20<\/p>\n
Morehead State at Southern Indiana<\/p>\n
Southeast Missouri at Tennessee State<\/p>\n
UT Martin at Tennessee Tech<\/p>\n
Sunday, December 21<\/p>\n
Lindenwood at Eastern Illinois (Women’s Game)<\/p>\n
Monday, December 22<\/p>\n
SIUE at Western Illinois<\/p>\n
Tuesday, December 30<\/p>\n
Tennessee State at Tennessee Tech<\/p>\n
Thursday, January 1<\/p>\n
Eastern Illinois at Southeast Missouri<\/p>\n
Morehead State at Lindenwood<\/p>\n
Tennessee Tech at Little Rock<\/p>\n
Southern Indiana at SIUE<\/p>\n
Western Illinois at UT Martin<\/p>\n
Saturday, January 3<\/p>\n
Eastern Illinois at UT Martin<\/p>\n
Southern Indiana at Lindenwood<\/p>\n
Tennessee State at Little Rock<\/p>\n
Morehead State at SIUE<\/p>\n
Western Illinois at Southeast Missouri<\/p>\n
Tuesday, January 6<\/p>\n
Lindenwood at SIUE<\/p>\n
Thursday, January 8<\/p>\n
Tennessee Tech at Eastern Illinois<\/p>\n
Little Rock at SIUE<\/p>\n
UT Martin at Morehead State<\/p>\n
Southeast Missouri at Southern Indiana<\/p>\n
Tennessee State at Western Illinois<\/p>\n
Saturday, January 10<\/p>\n
Tennessee State at Eastern Illinois<\/p>\n
Little Rock at Lindenwood<\/p>\n
Southeast Missouri at Morehead State<\/p>\n
UT Martin at Southern Indiana<\/p>\n
Tennessee Tech at Western Illinois<\/p>\n
Tuesday, January 13<\/p>\n
Western Illinois at Eastern Illinois<\/p>\n
Thursday, January 15<\/p>\n
Eastern Illinois at Little Rock<\/p>\n
Lindenwood at Southeast Missouri<\/p>\n
Morehead State at Tennessee State<\/p>\n
SIUE at UT Martin<\/p>\n
Southern Indiana at Tennessee Tech<\/p>\n
Saturday, January 17<\/p>\n
Lindenwood at UT Martin<\/p>\n
Western Illinois at Little Rock<\/p>\n
Morehead State at Tennessee Tech<\/p>\n
SIUE at Southeast Missouri<\/p>\n
Southern Indiana at Tennessee State<\/p>\n
Tuesday, January 20<\/p>\n
UT Martin at Southeast Missouri<\/p>\n
Thursday, January 22<\/p>\n
Eastern Illinois at Southern Indiana<\/p>\n
Tennessee Tech at Lindenwood<\/p>\n
Little Rock at Southeast Missouri<\/p>\n
Western Illinois at Morehead State<\/p>\n
Tennessee State at SIUE<\/p>\n
Saturday, January 24<\/p>\n
Eastern Illinois at Morehead State<\/p>\n
Tennessee State at Lindenwood<\/p>\n
Little Rock at UT Martin<\/p>\n
Tennessee Tech at SIUE<\/p>\n
Western Illinois at Southern Indiana<\/p>\n
Tuesday, January 27<\/p>\n
Tennessee Tech at Tennessee State<\/p>\n
Thursday, January 29<\/p>\n
UT Martin at Eastern Illinois<\/p>\n
Lindenwood at Southern Indiana<\/p>\n
Little Rock at Tennessee State<\/p>\n
SIUE at Morehead State<\/p>\n
Southeast Missouri at Western Illinois<\/p>\n
Saturday, January 31<\/p>\n
Southeast Missouri at Eastern Illinois<\/p>\n
Lindenwood at Morehead State<\/p>\n
Little Rock at Tennessee Tech<\/p>\n
SIUE at Southern Indiana<\/p>\n
UT Martin at Western Illinois<\/p>\n
Tuesday, February 3<\/p>\n
SIUE at Lindenwood<\/p>\n
Thursday, February 5<\/p>\n
Eastern Illinois at Tennessee State<\/p>\n
Lindenwood at Little Rock<\/p>\n
Morehead State at Southeast Missouri<\/p>\n
Southern Indiana at UT Martin<\/p>\n
Western Illinois at Tennessee Tech<\/p>\n
Saturday, February 7<\/p>\n
Eastern Illinois at Tennessee Tech<\/p>\n
SIUE at Little Rock<\/p>\n
Morehead State at UT Martin<\/p>\n
Southern Indiana at Southeast Missouri<\/p>\n
Western Illinois at Tennessee State<\/p>\n
Tuesday, February 10<\/p>\n
Eastern Illinois at Western Illinois<\/p>\n
Thursday, February 12<\/p>\n
UT Martin at Lindenwood<\/p>\n
Little Rock at Western Illinois<\/p>\n
Tennessee Tech at Morehead State<\/p>\n
Southeast Missouri at SIUE<\/p>\n
Tennessee State at Southern Indiana<\/p>\n
Saturday, February 14<\/p>\n
Little Rock at Eastern Illinois<\/p>\n
Southeast Missouri at Lindenwood<\/p>\n
Tennessee State at Morehead State<\/p>\n
UT Martin at SIUE<\/p>\n
Tennessee Tech at Southern Indiana<\/p>\n
Tuesday, February 17<\/p>\n
Southeast Missouri at UT Martin<\/p>\n
Thursday, February 19<\/p>\n
Morehead State at Eastern Illinois<\/p>\n
Lindenwood at Tennessee State<\/p>\n
UT Martin at Little Rock<\/p>\n
SIUE at Tennessee Tech<\/p>\n
Southern Indiana at Western Illinois<\/p>\n
Saturday, February 21<\/p>\n
Southern Indiana at Eastern Illinois<\/p>\n
Lindenwood at Tennessee Tech<\/p>\n
Southeast Missouri at Little Rock<\/p>\n
Morehead State at Western Illinois<\/p>\n
SIUE at Tennessee State<\/p>\n
Tuesday, February 24<\/p>\n
Southern Indiana at Morehead State<\/p>\n
Thursday, February 26<\/p>\n
Eastern Illinois at Lindenwood<\/p>\n
Morehead State at Little Rock<\/p>\n
Tennessee State at Southeast Missouri<\/p>\n
Western Illinois at SIUE<\/p>\n
Tennessee Tech at UT Martin<\/p>\n
Saturday, February 28<\/p>\n
Eastern Illinois at SIUE<\/p>\n
Lindenwood at Western Illinois<\/p>\n
Southern Indiana at Little Rock<\/p>\n
Tennessee Tech at Southeast Missouri<\/p>\n
Tennessee State at UT Martin<\/p>\n
Wednesday, March 4<\/p>\n
OVC Tournament First Round (Ford Center \u2013 Evansville, Ind.)<\/p>\n
Thursday, March 5<\/p>\n
OVC Tournament Quarterfinals (Ford Center \u2013 Evansville, Ind.)<\/p>\n
Friday, March 6<\/p>\n
OVC Tournament Semifinals (Ford Center \u2013 Evansville, Ind.)<\/p>\n
Saturday, March 7<\/p>\n
OVC Tournament Championship (Ford Center \u2013 Evansville, Ind.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRENTWOOD, Tenn. \u2013 The Ohio Valley Conference has announced its men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball conference schedules for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,1976,4044,2662,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-51648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-college-sports","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-basketball","14":"tag-ncaabasketball","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}