2020 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament explained

Year:2020
Conference:Ohio Valley Conference
Gender:Women's
Teams:8
Arena:Ford Center
City:Evansville, Indiana
Champions:Southeast Missouri State
Titlecount:2nd
Coach:Rekha Patterson
Coachcount:1st
Television:ESPN+

The 2020 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament ended the 2019-20 season of Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball. The tournament was held March 4–7, 2020, at Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana. Southeast Missouri State was the winner, receiving an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Format

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).[1] [2]

Seeds

SeedSchoolConference OverallTiebreaker
1UT Martin16–220–9
2Belmont16–222–8
3Southeast Missouri State14–422–7
4Eastern Illinois12–628–11
5Jacksonville State10–814–152–0 vs. Tennessee Tech
6Tennessee Tech10–817–120–2 vs. Jacksonville State
7Austin Peay9–918–11
8 Murray State7–1114–16

Bracket

* denotes overtime period

Notes and References

  1. Web site: OVC changing to women’s basketball scheduling. The Leaf Chronicle. en. 2019-03-09.
  2. Web site: The OVC Tournament is hard to peg. Kirshner. Alex. 2016-03-02. SBNation.com. 2019-03-09.