| Year: | 2021 |
| Conference: | Atlantic 10 |
| Division: | I |
| Gender: | Women's |
| Teams: | 14 |
| Finalarena: | Siegel Center |
| Finalcity: | Richmond, Virginia |
| Champions: | VCU |
| Titlecount: | 1st |
| Coach: | Beth O'Boyle |
| Coachcount: | 1st |
| Television: | CBSSN, ESPN+, ESPNU |
The 2021 Atlantic 10 women's basketball tournament was a postseason tournament that concluded the 2020-21 season of the Atlantic 10 Conference. It will be played at Siegel Center in Richmond, Virginia, March 10–14, 2021. VCU won the tournament, its first-ever title.
Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.[1]
| Seed | School | Conf | Overall | Tiebreaker | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dayton‡† | 12–1 | |||
| 2 | Fordham† | 8–2 | |||
| 3 | Saint Louis† | 9–3 | |||
| 4 | Rhode Island† | 11–4 | |||
| 5 | VCU | 10–5 | |||
| 6 | Richmond | 9–6 | |||
| 7 | UMass | 7–5 | |||
| 8 | La Salle | 7–10 | |||
| 9 | Duquesne | 4–7 | |||
| 10 | Saint Joseph's | 5–9 | 1–0 vs. GW | ||
| 11 | George Washington | 5–9 | |||
| 12 | Davidson | 5–10 | |||
| 13 | St. Bonaventure | 5–12 | |||
| 14 | George Mason | 0–14 | |||
| ‡ – Atlantic 10 regular season champions, and tournament No. 1 seed. † – Received a single-bye in the conference tournament. | |||||
| Session | Game | Time | Matchup | Score | Television | Attendance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First round – Wednesday, March 10 | |||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1:00pm | No. 12 Davidson vs No. 13 St. Bonaventure | 69–61 | ESPN+ | 250 | |
| 2 | 4:00pm | No. 11 George Washington vs No. 14 George Mason | 62–56 | ||||
| Second round – Thursday, March 11 | |||||||
| 2 | 3 | 11:00am | No. 8 La Salle vs No. 9 Duquesne | 72–68OT | ESPN+ | 250 | |
| 4 | 2:00 pm | No. 5 VCU vs No. 12 Davidson | 69–52 | ||||
| 3 | 5 | 5:00pm | No. 7 Massachusetts vs No. 10 Saint Joseph's | 79–69OT | 250 | ||
| 6 | 8:00pm | No. 6 Richmond vs No. 11 George Washington | 58–54OT | ||||
| Quarterfinals – Friday, March 12 | |||||||
| 4 | 7 | 11:00am | No. 1 Dayton vs No. 8 La Salle | 85-70 | ESPN+ | 250 | |
| 8 | 2:00pm | No. 4 Rhode Island vs No. 5 VCU | 57–64OT | ||||
| 5 | 9 | 5:00pm | No. 2 Fordham vs No. 7 Massachusetts | 70–80 | 250 | ||
| 10 | 8:00pm | No. 3 Saint Louis vs No. 6 Richmond | 59–58OT | ||||
| Semifinals – Saturday, March 13 | |||||||
| 6 | 11 | 1:00pm | No. 1 Dayton vs No. 5 VCU | 50–56 | CBSSN | 250 | |
| 12 | 4:00pm | No. 3 Saint Louis vs No. 7 Massachusetts | 81–90 | ||||
| Championship – Sunday, March 14 | |||||||
| 7 | 13 | 12:00pm | No. 5 VCU vs No. 7 Massachusetts | 81–69 | ESPNU | ||
* denotes overtime period