The Lindenwood Lions went 9-22 overall and 3-15 in Ohio Valley Conference play last season. (Photo: Thomas Grove)
ST. CHARLES, MO — The Ohio Valley Conference has announced its men’s and women’s basketball conference schedules for the 2024-25 NCAA season, which will begin with nonconference play at the beginning of November.
OVC league play will begin in mid-December and will conclude at the beginning of March.
For the second-straight year the league membership includes 11 teams (Eastern Illinois, Lindenwood, Little Rock, Morehead State, Southeast Missouri, SIU-Edwardsville, Southern Indiana, Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech, Tennessee-Martin, and Western Illinois).
This year the conference schedules will switch to a true round-robin slate of 20 games. Each team will play every other league team twice — once at home and once on the road. Last year, league play was only 18 games.
Lindenwood will begin its 2024-25 OVC league play with a pair of home games at Hyland Arena, just before Christmas against Tennessee Tech (December 19) and Western Illinois (December 21). The Lindenwood athletics department is still finalizing the team’s full schedule and will announce it publicly at a later date.
The 2025 Ohio Valley Conference Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments will be played March 5-8 at the Ford Center in Evansville, Ind. This will be the eighth year in a row the event will be held at the Ford Center.
Each OVC school is eligible to compete and win the OVC Tournament Championship, including Lindenwood and Southern Indiana, who are in year three of the reclassification process to Division I.
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.
Lindenwood sports information contributed to this story.
All dates are subject to change.
Thursday, December 19
Tennessee Tech at Lindenwood
Saturday, December 21
Western Illinois at Lindenwood
Thursday, January 2
Lindenwood at Eastern Illinois
Saturday, January 4
Lindenwood at SIUE
Thursday, January 9
Tennessee State at Lindenwood
Saturday, January 11
Tennessee-Martin at Lindenwood
Thursday, January 16
Lindenwood at Southern Indiana
Saturday, January 18
Lindenwood at Morehead State
Thursday, January 23
Southeast Missouri at Lindenwood
Saturday, January 25
Little Rock at Lindenwood
Thursday, January 30
SIUE at Lindenwood
Saturday, February 1
Eastern Illinois at Lindenwood
Thursday, February 6
Lindenwood at Tennessee-Martin
Saturday, February 8
Lindenwood at Tennessee State
Thursday, February 13
Morehead State at Lindenwood
Saturday, February 15
Southern Indiana at Lindenwood
Thursday, February 20
Lindenwood at Little Rock
Saturday, February 22
Lindenwood at Southeast Missouri
Tuesday, February 25
Lindenwood at Western Illinois
Saturday, March 1
Lindenwood at Tennessee Tech