2012 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
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The 2012 Ohio Valley Conference
Men's Basketball Tournament will occur February 29 through March 3. All games will take place at Nashville Municipal Auditorium
in Nashville, Tennessee
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in the West Coast Conference). The first round will match up the No. 5/8 and No. 6/7 seeds The top eight eligible men's basketball teams in the Ohio Valley Conference receive a berth in the conference tournament. After the 18-game conference season, teams are seeded by conference record. The winner will earns an automatic berth in the 2012 NCAA Tournament
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* – Denotes overtime
Ohio Valley Conference
The Ohio Valley Conference is a college athletic conference which operates in the midwestern and southeastern United States. It participates in Division I of the NCAA; the conference's football programs compete in the Football Championship Subdivision , the lower of two levels of Division I...
Men's Basketball Tournament will occur February 29 through March 3. All games will take place at Nashville Municipal Auditorium
Nashville Municipal Auditorium
The Nashville Municipal Auditorium is an indoor sports and concert venue in Nashville, Tennessee...
in Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
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Format
The format for the tournament was changed, beginning with the 2011 tournament. Seeding changed to a merit-based system where the No. 1 and 2 seeds receive a double bye to the semifinals while the No. 3 and 4 seeds get a single bye to the quarterfinals (a system that has been used since 20032002–03 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
The 2002–03 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 10, 2002, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded with the 2003 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Championship Game on April 7, 2003 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans,...
in the West Coast Conference). The first round will match up the No. 5/8 and No. 6/7 seeds The top eight eligible men's basketball teams in the Ohio Valley Conference receive a berth in the conference tournament. After the 18-game conference season, teams are seeded by conference record. The winner will earns an automatic berth in the 2012 NCAA Tournament
2012 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
The 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament will involve 68 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball...
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Seeds
The top eight will qualify for the tournament. Teams are seeded by 2011–12 Ohio Valley Conference men's basketball standings record, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.| Seed | School | Conf (Overall) | Tiebreaker |
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