Bradley defeated Northern Iowa in the championship game to win the Missouri Valley Conference tournament and thereby received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Bradley received the conference's only bid to the NCAA Tournament and lost to Michigan State in the first round, 76-65.
Loyola-Chicago received a bid to the NIT and lost in the first round at Creighton, 70-61.
On March 3, 2018, Missouri State announced that head coach Paul Lusk had been fired.
[6][7] A week after Medved's departure, Drake hired Creighton assistant and Iowa native Darian DeVries for the head coaching job.