2022 Horizon League women's basketball tournament explained

Year:2022
Conference:Horizon League
Division:I
Gender:Women's
Teams:12
Arena:Campus sites
(first round and quarterfinals)
Indiana Farmers Coliseum
City:Indianapolis, Indiana
(semifinals round and finals)
1Stroundarena:12
Champions:IUPUI
Titlecount:2nd
Coach:Austin Parkinson
Coachcount:2nd
Mvp:Macee Williams
Mvpteam:IUPUI
Television:ESPN+, ESPNU

The 2022 Horizon League women's basketball tournament is the final event of the 2021–22 women's basketball season for the Horizon League. It began on March 1, 2022 and will end on March 8; first-round and quarterfinal games are played at the home courts of the higher seeds, with all remaining games at Indiana Farmers Coliseum in Indianapolis. The winner will receive the conference's automatic berth into the NCAA tournament.

Seeds

All conference members are participating in the tournament, with the top four teams in the regular-season conference standings receiving byes to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers used are 1) Head-to-head results, 2) comparison of records against individual teams in the conference starting with the top-ranked team and working down and 3) NCAA NET rankings on the first available report after the regular season is complete.[1]

SeedSchoolConfTiebreaker
1IUPUI18–42–0 vs. Youngstown State
2Youngstown State18–40–2 vs. IUPUI
3Green Bay15–4
4Cleveland State14–62–0 vs. Northern Kentucky
5Northern Kentucky14–60–2 vs. Cleveland State
6Milwaukee13–9
7Oakland11–9
8Robert Morris11–11
9Purdue Fort Wayne7–14
10Wright State3–18
11UIC1–20
12Detroit Mercy1–21

Schedule

GameTime[2] MatchupScoreTelevision
First round – March 1
15:30 pmNo. 10 Wright State at No. 7 Oakland45–54ESPN+
27:00 pmNo. 12 Detroit Mercy at No. 5 Northern Kentucky50–73
37:00 pmNo. 9 Purdue Fort Wayne at No. 8 Robert Morris56–70
48:00 pmNo. 11 UIC at No. 6 Milwaukee46–55
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 3
57:00 pmNo. 8 Robert Morris at No. 1 IUPUI42–71ESPN+
67:00 pmNo. 5 Northern Kentucky at No. 4 Cleveland State51–59
77:00 pmNo. 7 Oakland at No. 2 Youngstown State63–52
87:00 pmNo. 6 Milwaukee at No. 3 Green Bay51–59
Semifinals – Monday, March 7
at Indiana Farmers Coliseum, Indianapolis, IN
97:00 pmNo. 1 IUPUI vs. No. 7 Oakland86–63ESPN+
109:30 pmNo. 3 Green Bay vs. No. 4 Cleveland State42–69ESPN+
Championship – Tuesday, March 8
at Indiana Farmers Coliseum, Indianapolis, IN
11NoonNo. 1 IUPUI vs. No. 4 Cleveland State61–54ESPNU
All game times Eastern. Rankings denote tournament seed

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Basketball Tiebreaker Procedures. Horizon League. February 27, 2022.
  2. Web site: 2022 Horizon League Men's & Women's Basketball Championships - Horizon League. 2022-02-19. horizonleague.org. en.