| Year: | 2018 |
| Conference: | Ohio Valley Conference |
| Gender: | Women's |
| Teams: | 8 |
| Arena: | Ford Center |
| City: | Evansville, Indiana |
| Champions: | Belmont |
| Titlecount: | 3rd |
| Coach: | Bart Brooks |
| Coachcount: | 1st |
| Mvp: | Darby Maggard |
| Mvpteam: | Belmont |
| Television: | ESPN+/ESPN3 |
The 2018 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament ended the 2017–18 season of Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball. The tournament was held February 28–March 3 at Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana.[1] Regular-season champion Belmont won the tournament and with it the OVC's automatic berth in the NCAA tournament.[2]
The OVC women's tournament is a traditional single-elimination tournament featuring the top eight teams in the conference regular-season standings. This differs from the format used in the OVC men's tournament; while that tournament also involves only eight of the league's 12 members, it has a radically different format, consisting of two stepladder brackets that produce the tournament finalists. The women's tournament is seeded so that the #8 seed faces the #1 seed in the first round, #7 faces #2, and so on. There is no reseeding, so if the #8 team were to defeat the #1 seed it would continue in the tournament playing the team which would have faced the #1 seed in the subsequent round (winner of #4 vs. #5).[3] [4]
| Seed | School | Conference | Overall | Tiebreaker | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Belmont | 18–0 | 28–3 | ||
| 2 | UT Martin | 13–5 | 18–13 | ||
| 3 | SIUE | 13–5 | 16–13 | ||
| 4 | Jacksonville State | 12–6 | 18–11 | ||
| 5 | Morehead State | 12–6 | 21–10 | ||
| 6 | Austin Peay | 9–9 | 16–13 | ||
| 7 | Southeast Missouri | 9–9 | 14–16 | ||
| 8 | Murray State | 5–9 | 9–16 | ||
| – | Eastern Kentucky | 5–9 | 8–15 | ||
| – | Tennessee Tech | 3–11 | 6–19 | ||
| – | Tennessee State | 3–11 | 5–18 | ||
| – | Eastern Illinois | 1–13 | 2–23 |