Great Lakes Valley Conference men's basketball tournament
Appearance
Great Lakes Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament | |
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Conference Basketball Championship | |
Sport | Basketball |
Conference | Great Lakes Valley Conference |
Format | Single-elimination tournament |
Played | 1998–present |
Current champion | Truman (1st) |
Most championships | Bellarmine (5), Kentucky Wesleyan (5) |
Official website | GLVC men's basketball |
The Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) Men's Basketball Tournament is the annual conference basketball championship tournament for the Great Lakes Valley Conference. The tournament has been held annually since 1998, twenty years after the conference was founded in 1978. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records.[1]
The winner, declared conference champion, receives the GLVC's automatic bid to the NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship.
Results
Year | Champions | Score | Runner-Up |
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1998 | Kentucky Wesleyan | 94–81 | Southern Indiana |
1999 | Kentucky Wesleyan | 95–84 | Southern Indiana |
2000 | Kentucky Wesleyan | 90–88 | Southern Indiana |
2001 | Kentucky Wesleyan | 91–74 | Southern Indiana |
2002 | Lewis | 77–65 | Kentucky Wesleyan |
2003 | Northern Kentucky | 58–55 | Lewis |
2004 | Kentucky Wesleyan | 72–71 (OT) | Lewis |
2005 | Southern Indiana | 79–49 | Northern Kentucky |
2006 | Saint Joseph's | 68–67 | Quincy |
2007 | Southern Indiana | 63–61 | Northern Kentucky |
2008 | Drury | 89–87 (OT) | Lewis |
2009 | Northern Kentucky | 69–47 | Bellarmine |
2010 | Bellarmine | 79–69 | Kentucky Wesleyan |
2011 | Bellarmine | 87–81 OT) | Southern Indiana |
2012 | Southern Indiana | 60–56 | Northern Kentucky |
2013 | Drury | 71–65 | Southern Indiana |
2014 | Southern Indiana | 86–73 | Bellarmine |
2015 | Drury | 77–70 | Bellarmine |
2016 | Lewis | 80–71 | Wisconsin–Parkside |
2017 | Bellarmine | 74–61 | Lewis |
2018 | Bellarmine | 75–61 | Truman |
2019 | Bellarmine | 65-48 | Drury |
2020 | Truman | 53–52 | Missouri–St. Louis |
Championship records
School | Finals Record | Finals Appearances | Years |
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Kentucky Wesleyan | 5–2 | 7 | 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004 |
Bellarmine | 5-3 | 8 | 2010, 2011, 2017, 2018, 2019 |
Southern Indiana | 4–6 | 10 | 2005, 2007, 2012, 2014 |
Drury | 3–1 | 4 | 2008, 2013, 2015 |
Lewis | 2–4 | 6 | 2002, 2016 |
Northern Kentucky | 2–3 | 5 | 2003, 2009 |
Saint Joseph's | 1–0 | 1 | 2006 |
Truman | 1–1 | 2 | 2020 |
Missouri–St. Louis | 0–1 | 1 | |
Quincy | 0–1 | 1 | |
Wisconsin–Parkside | 0–1 | 1 |
- Illinois–Springfield, Indianapolis, Lindenwood, Maryville, McKendree, Missouri S&T, Rockhurst, Southwest Baptist, and William Jewell have not yet reached the finals of the GLVC tournament.
- IPFW and SIU Edwardsville never reached the tournament finals before departing the GLVC.
- Schools highlighted in pink are former members of the Great Lakes Valley Conference
References
- ^ "GLVC Men's Basketball Archive". Year-by-year records. GLVC. 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.