| Year: | 2022 |
| Conference: | Missouri Valley Conference |
| Division: | I |
| Gender: | Men's |
| Teams: | 10 |
| Arena: | Enterprise Center |
| City: | St. Louis, Missouri |
| Champions: | Loyola |
| Titlecount: | 3rd |
| Coach: | Drew Valentine |
| Coachcount: | 1st |
| Mvp: | Lucas Williamson |
| Mvpteam: | Loyola |
| Television: | CBS/Paramount+, CBSSN, MVC TV |
The 2022 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament, popularly referred to as "Arch Madness", was a postseason men's basketball tournament that completed the 2021–22 season in the Missouri Valley Conference. The tournament was held at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Missouri, during March 3–6, 2022. The winner, the Loyola Ramblers, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA tournament.
Teams were 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 six seeds received openinground byes.[1]
| Seed | School | Conference | Tiebreaker 1 | Tiebreaker 2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northern Iowa | 144 | |||
| 2 | Missouri State | 135 | 3–1 vs. Drake/Loyola | ||
| 3 | Drake | 135 | 2–2 vs. Missouri St./Loyola | 2–0 vs. Loyola | |
| 4 | Loyola Chicago | 135 | 1–3 vs. Missouri St./Drake | 0–2 vs. Drake | |
| 5 | Bradley | 117 | |||
| 6 | Southern Illinois | 99 | |||
| 7 | Valparaiso | 612 | |||
| 8 | Illinois State | 513 | |||
| 9 | Indiana State | 414 | |||
| 10 | Evansville | 216 |
| Game | Time * | Matchup | Score | Television | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opening Round Thursday, March 3 | |||||
| 1 | 6:00 pm |
| 58-53 | align=center rowspan=2 | MVC TV |
| 2 | 8:30 pm |
| 81–59 | ||
| Quarterfinals Friday, March 4 | |||||
| 3 | 12:00 pm |
| 78–65 | align=center rowspan=4 | MVC TV |
| 4 | 2:30 pm |
| 66–50 | ||
| 5 | 6:00 pm |
| 67–58 | ||
| 6 | 8:30 pm |
| 65–52 | ||
| Semifinals Saturday, March 5 | |||||
| 7 | 2:30 pm |
| 43–66 | align=center rowspan=2 | CBSSN |
| 8 | 5:00 pm |
| 78–79OT | ||
| Final Sunday, March 6 | |||||
| 9 | 1:00 pm |
| 64–58 | CBS/Paramount+ | |
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