Question: The Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles are members of which collegiate athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States?

full_context: Document 1: Steve Payne (basketball): Steve Payne (born February 12, 1968) is an American college basketball coach and the current men's gramcoach at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee. The Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles are members of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) and compete in the NCAA's Division I. Payne was appointed the head coach at Tennessee Tech on March 23, 2011, following the retirement of Mike Sutton. Payne had been an assistant to Sutton since the 2002-2003 season.
Document 2: Sean Payton: Patrick Sean Payton (born December 29, 1963) is an American football coach and former player who is the current head coach of the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). Payton was a quarterback at Naperville Central High School and Eastern Illinois University and played professionally in 1987 and 1988. He began his coaching career as offensive assistant for San Diego State University and had several assistant coaching positions on college and NFL teams before being named as the tenth full-time coach in Saints history in 2006. On March 23, 2016, Payton agreed to a 5 years contract extension with the Saints.
Document 3: Big 12 Conference: The Big 12 Conference is a ten-school collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is a member of the NCAA's Division I for all sports; its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly Division I-A), the higher of two levels of NCAA Division I football competition. Its ten members, located in Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and West Virginia, include eight public and two private Christian schools. Additionally, the Big 12 has 12 affiliate members, eight for the sport of wrestling, one for women's gymnastics, and 3 for women's rowing. The Big 12 Conference is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in Delaware.
Document 4: Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football: The Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the Tennessee Technological University located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and are members of the Ohio Valley Conference. The school's first football team was fielded in 1922. The team plays its home games at the 16,500 seat Tucker Stadium. They are coached by Marcus Satterfield, who took over in 2016 following the retirement of Watson Brown.
Document 5: Missouri Valley Conference: The Missouri Valley Conference (also called MVC or simply "The Valley") is the second-oldest collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Currently, its members are located in the midwestern United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I.
Document 6: Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles men's basketball: The Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles men's basketball team is the men's basketball team that represents Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee, United States. The school's team currently competes in the Ohio Valley Conference.
Document 7: Pac-12 Conference: The Pac-12 Conference (officially the Pacific-12 Conference) is a collegiate athletic conference that operates in the Western United States, participating in 22 sports at the NCAA Division I level. Its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly Division I-A), the higher of two tiers of NCAA Division I football competition.
Document 8: Ohio Valley Conference: The Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. It participates in Division I of the NCAA; the conference's football programs compete in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS; formerly known as Division I-AA), the lower of two levels of Division I football competition. The OVC has 12 members, 9 of which compete in football in the conference.
Document 9: Southern Conference: The Southern Conference (SoCon) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I. Southern Conference football teams compete in the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-AA). Member institutions are located in the states of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Document 10: Tubby Smith: Orlando Henry "Tubby" Smith (born June 30, 1951) is an American college basketball coach. He is currently the men's basketball head coach for the University of Memphis. Smith previously served in the same role at the University of Tulsa (1991–1995), the University of Georgia (1995–1997), the University of Kentucky (1997–2007), the University of Minnesota (2007–2013), and Texas Tech University (2013–2016). With Kentucky, he coached the Wildcats to the 1998 NCAA championship.
Document 11: Steve Campbell (American football): Steve Campbell (born April 11, 1966) is an American college football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at the University of Central Arkansas, a position he has held since December 2013. Campbell has previously served in the same capacity at Delta State University from 1999 to 2001, as well as at two National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) institutions — Southwest Mississippi Community College (1997–1998) and Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (2004–2013). He has been involved with three National Championship winning teams — first as a NCAA Division II player in 1987, then as a D-II head coach in 2000 and lastly as a junior college head coach in 2007.
Document 12: Southeastern Conference: The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the Southern part of the United States. Its fourteen members include the flagship public universities of ten states, three additional public land grant universities, and one private research university. The conference is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. The SEC participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I in sports competitions; for football, it is part of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A.
Document 13: Tennessee Technological University: Tennessee Technological University, popularly known as Tennessee Tech, is an accredited public university located in Cookeville, Tennessee, United States, a city approximately 70 miles (110 km) east of Nashville. It was formerly known as Tennessee Polytechnic Institute (1915), and before that as University of Dixie, the name under which it was founded as a private institution in 1909. It places special emphasis on undergraduate education in fields related to engineering and technology, although degrees in education, liberal arts, agriculture, nursing, and other fields of study can be pursued as well. Additionally, there are graduate offerings in engineering, education, business, and the liberal arts. The university is governed by an eight-member Board of Trustees. Its athletic teams compete in the Ohio Valley Conference.
Document 14: Eddie Payne: Eddie Payne (born 1951) is an American college basketball coach and current head men's basketball coach at the University of South Carolina Upstate. Payne led the USC Upstate Spartans through their first season of Division I competition in 2007–2008. In 2012, he was named the Atlantic Sun Conference Coach of the Year. Prior to arriving at USC Upstate, Payne was previously a Div I head coach at Oregon State University and East Carolina University. Payne's son, Luke, is one of his assistant coaches at USC Upstate.
Document 15: Big Ten Conference: The Big Ten Conference (B1G), formerly Western Conference and Big Nine Conference, is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Despite its name, the conference consists of 14 members (as of 2016). They compete in the NCAA Division I; its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A, the highest level of NCAA competition in that sport. The conference includes the flagship public university in each of 11 states stretching from New Jersey to Nebraska, as well as two additional public land grant schools and a private university.
ground_truth: Ohio Valley Conference