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BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – The Ohio Valley Conference has announced its men's and women's basketball conference schedules for the 2022-23 season.
 
This year, which is the 75th year of competition in the OVC, marks the first in the league for Lindenwood, Little Rock and Southern Indiana who became official members on July 1. They join Eastern Illinois, Morehead State, Southeast Missouri, SIUE, Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech and UT Martin to make up the 10-team league.
 
Each school will play an 18-game double round-robin schedule which will begin on Thursday, December 29 and conclude on Saturday, February 25.
 
The 2023 OVC Men's and Women's Basketball Tournament is slated for March 1-4 at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana. It marks the sixth year in a row the event will be held at the venue.

Each OVC school is eligible to compete and win the OVC Tournament Championship, including Lindenwood and Southern Indiana, who are beginning the reclassification process to Division I. It was previously announced that should a transitioning school win an OVC Tournament Championship, the AQ shall be awarded to the tournament runner-up. Should the tournament runner-up also be a transitioning school, the AQ representative shall be the highest seed going into the tournament.

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 that will be announced at a later date.
 
Eastern Illinois will release the non-conference portion of its men's and women's basketball schedules in the coming weeks. 
 
The Panthers will open and close OVC play at home at First Mid Court at Lantz Arena.  They welcome two of the three OVC newcomers to tip off the season with Lindenwood playing in Charleston on December 29 followed by a New Year's Eve contest with Southern Indiana.   The regular season closes with EIU hosting Morehead State on Feb. 23 and Tennessee Tech on Feb. 25.
 
2022-23 Eastern Illinois OVC Basketball Schedule
  (note all dates are doubleheaders)
 
Thursday – Dec. 29 vs. Lindenwood
Saturday – Dec. 31 vs. Southern Indiana
Thursday – Jan. 5 at Tennessee Tech
Saturday – Jan. 7 at Morehead State
Thursday – Jan. 12 vs. SIUE
Saturday – Jan. 14 vs. Little Rock
Thursday – Jan. 19 at Tennessee State
Saturday – Jan. 21 at UT Martin
Thursday – Jan. 26 at Southern Indiana
Saturday – Jan. 28 vs. Southeast Missouri
Thursday – Feb. 2 at Lindenwood
Saturday – Feb. 4 vs. Tennessee State
Thursday – Feb. 9 vs. UT Martin
Saturday – Feb. 11 at SIUE
Thursday – Feb. 16 at Southeast Missouri
Saturday – Feb. 18 at Little Rock
Thursday – Feb. 23 vs. Morehead State
Saturday – Feb. 25 vs. Tennessee Tech
Wednesday – March 1 at OVC Tournament (Evansville, Ind.)