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It’s the final week of the MIVA regular season and seven of the eight seeds for the conference tournament remain undecided.
Check out all the possible conference tournament seeding scenarios for each team.
MIVA Tournament overview
All eight MIVA teams qualified for the conference tournament quarterfinals that will take place Saturday, April 16. The top-four teams earn the right to play host to the conference tournament quarterfinals match. In addition, the two remaining highest seeded teams after the quarterfinals get to play host to the semifinals on Wednesday, April 20, and then the remaining highest seeded team will play host to the finals on Saturday, April 23.
Remaining MIVA schedule
Thursday matches
No. 7/4 Ball State at No. 11/10 Loyola
Quincy at No. 13 Lewis
Lindenwood at No. 15 McKendree
Ohio State at Purdue Fort Wayne
Saturday matches
No. 7/4 Ball State at Purdue Fort Wayne
Ohio State at No. 11/10 Loyola
Lindenwood at No. 13 Lewis
Quincy at No. 15 McKendree
MIVA standings
| Team | MIVA | Overall | MB |
| y-1. Ball State | 11-1 | 19-2 | — |
| y-2. Loyola | 10-2 | 16-7 | -1 |
| x-3. McKendree | 7-5 | 12-10 | -4 |
| x-4. Purdue Fort Wayne | 6-6 | 15-10 | -5 |
| x-T-5. Lewis | 5-7 | 13-11 | -6 |
| x-T-5. Ohio State | 5-7 | 11-13 | -6 |
| x-7. Lindenwood | 4-8 | 8-11 | -7 |
| x-8. Quincy | 0-12 | 4-16 | -11 |
LEGEND
x – Clinched postseason berth
y – Clinched home court for conference quarterfinals
z – Clinched conference regular season title and home court for conference tournament
Seeding scenarios
Ball State
– Can clinch the MIVA regular season championship, the No. 1 seed and home court advantage throughout the MIVA Tournament if it beats Loyola on Thursday or it beats Purdue Fort Wayne and Loyola loses to Ohio State on Saturday.
Loyola
– Can clinch the MIVA regular season championship, the No. 1 seed and home court advantage throughout the MIVA Tournament if it beats both Ball State on Thursday and Ohio State on Saturday or it beats Ball State on Thursday and Ball State loses to Purdue Fort Wayne on Saturday.
McKendree
– Can clinch the No. 3 seed with a win; or a Purdue Fort Wayne loss, a Lewis loss and an Ohio State loss
– Can clinch the No. 4 seed with a Purdue Fort Wayne loss
Purdue Fort Wayne
– Can clinch the No. 3 seed with two wins and two McKendree losses
– Can clinch the No. 4 seed with two wins; or one win, an Ohio State loss and a Lewis loss.
Lewis
– Can clinch the No. 3 seed with two wins, two McKendree losses and a Purdue Fort Wayne loss.
– Can clinch the No. 4 seed with two wins and a Purdue Fort Wayne loss; or a win, two Purdue Fort Wayne loss and an Ohio State loss.
– Can clinch the No. 5 seed with two wins; a win, a Lindenwood loss and an Ohio State loss
Ohio State
– Can clinch the No. 4 seed with two wins and two Lewis losses.
– Can clinch the No. 5 seed with two wins; or one win and two Lewis losses and a Lindenwood loss.
Lindenwood
– Can clinch the No. 5 seed with two wins, a Lewis loss and an Ohio State loss; or a win against Lewis, two Lewis losses and two Ohio State losses.
– Can clinch the No. 6 seed with a win against Lewis and two Ohio State wins
Quincy
– Already clinched the No. 8 seed.