Drake College captured its third consecutive Missouri Valley Convention males’s basketball event championship on Sunday March 9, 2025, at Enterprise Heart to earn an automated bid to the NCAA Event, and the St. Louis area and several other non-profit organizations have been additionally winners.
The MVC and event sponsor Nice Southern Financial institution demonstrated their persevering with help for the youths within the area at halftime of the championship sport between Drake and Bradley.
The Boys & Women Golf equipment of Higher St. Louis (BGCSTL) and the City League of Metropolitan St. Louis, Inc. (ULMSTL) acquired respective $5,000 donations, for his or her collective efforts in uplifting the neighborhood and youth, in response to MVC Commissioner Jeff Jackson.
“We’re excited to proceed our partnership with the Missouri Valley Convention and Nice Southern Financial institution,” mentioned Brandon Williams, BGCSTL president and CEO.
“A particular thanks to Jeff Jackson, Assistant Commissioner Zack Hurst, and Chase Ramsdell, Southern Financial institution industrial relationship supervisor in St. Louis, for his or her dedication to youth.
The MVC Event can be a four-day financial boon for the area, in response to Tim Ryan, director of communications for the St. Louis Sports activities Fee.
“For this [tournament], proper round $7 to eight million you may rely on, and that’s direct spending,” he informed KSDK.
Jack Watkins, senior affiliate commissioner, advertising & tv and the event director mentioned, “Most of our attendance, about 70% of it, is from out of city.”
“The 2025 Males’s Frozen 4, the NCAA 1st and 2nd spherical for males’s basketball that might be right here in 2026 and the lads’s wrestling championship in 2027. St. Louis does it proper, and there’s recognition with the NCAA and with put up season championship occasions.”
The MVC additionally signed a five-year extension to maintain the event in St. Louis by 2030.
