| Year: | 2019 |
| Conference: | Horizon League |
| Division: | I |
| Gender: | Women's |
| Teams: | 8 |
| Arena: | Campus sites (first round) Little Caesars Arena (semifinals and Finals) |
| City: | Detroit, Michigan |
| Champions: | Wright State |
| Titlecount: | 2nd |
| Coach: | Katrina Merriweather |
| Coachcount: | 1st |
| Mvp: | Michal Miller |
| Mvpteam: | Wright State |
The 2019 Horizon League women's basketball tournament (also known as Motor City Madness) was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Horizon League. It was held March 5 through March 12, 2019. Wright State defeated Green Bay in the finals to earn the conference's automatic berth into the 2019 NCAA women's tournament.[1]
The top 8 teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
| Seed | School | Conference record | Overall record | Tiebreaker 1 | Tiebreaker 2 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center | 1 | Wright State | align=center | 24–6 | align=center | 16–2 | |||
| align=center | 2 | Green Bay | align=center | 20–8 | align=center | 15–3 | |||
| align=center | 3 | Youngstown State | align=center | 13–5 | align=center | 21–8 | 1–1 vs. IUPUI | 1–1 vs. WSU | |
| align=center | 4 | IUPUI | align=center | 13–5 | align=center | 19–10 | 1–1 vs. YSU | 0–2 vs. WSU | |
| align=center | 5 | Northern Kentucky | align=center | 10–8 | align=center | 11–17 | 1–1 vs. MIL | 1–1 vs. IUPUI | |
| align=center | 6 | Milwaukee | align=center | 10–8 | align=center | 15–14 | 1–1 vs. NKU | 0–2 vs. IUPUI | |
| align=center | 7 | Cleveland State | align=center | 7–11 | align=center | 10–19 | |||
| align=center | 8 | Oakland | align=center | 3–15 | align=center | 6–23 |
| Game | Time[2] | Matchup | Score | Television | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quarterfinals – Tuesday, March 5 | |||||||
| align=center | 1 | 5:30 pm | align=center | No. 8 Oakland at No. 1 Wright State | align=center | 60–83 | ESPN+ |
| align=center | 2 | 8:00 pm | align=center | No. 5 Northern Kentucky at No. 4 IUPUI | align=center | 44–60 | |
| Quarterfinals – Wednesday, March 6 | |||||||
| align=center | 3 | 7:00 pm | align=center | No. 7 Cleveland State at No. 2 Green Bay | align=center | 30–73 | ESPN+ |
| align=center | 4 | 8:00 pm | align=center | No. 6 Milwaukee at No. 3 Youngstown State | align=center | 58–64 | |
| Semifinals – Monday, March 11 | |||||||
| align=center | 5 | 1:00 pm | align=center | No. 4 IUPUI vs. No. 1 Wright State | align=center | 51–60 | ESPN+ |
| align=center | 6 | 3:30 pm | align=center | No. 3 Youngstown State vs. No. 2 Green Bay | align=center | 53–55 | |
| Finals – Tuesday, March 12 | |||||||
| align=center | 7 | 12:00 pm | align=center | No. 2 Green Bay vs. No. 1 Wright State | align=center | 52–55 | ESPNU |
| All game times in Eastern Time Zone. Rankings denote tournament seed | |||||||