Ohio Valley Conference

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Ohio Valley Conference

Established	1948
Classification	IAA
National Titles
Commissioner	Dr. Jon A. Steinbrecher
Members	11
Sports Fielded
States	Alabama, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee
Headquarters	Brentwood, Tennessee
Website	Ohio Valley Conference

The Ohio Valley Conference continues to build on the success that has made it the nation's eighth-oldest NCAA Division I conference. In 2003, the OVC extended its geographical footprint into Alabama for the first time, expanding the league’s membership to a record 11 institutions with the addition of Jacksonville State and Samford. The OVC's proud past dates back to 1948, but seeds for the new league were actually planted in 1941. It was then that Roy Stewart, the athletics director at Murray State, Charles (Turkey) Hughes, the athletics director at Eastern Kentucky, and Kelly Thompson, the public relations director at Western Kentucky, first broached the idea of forming a new conference. Discussions were put on hold by World War II, but reemerged Feb. 27-28, 1948 at the Kentucky Hotel in Louisville as the three original institutions combined with Morehead State, Louisville and Evansville to form the OVC.

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