Year: | 2024 |
Coachcount: | 22nd |
Attendance: | 34,965 |
Mvpteam: | UConn |
Mvp: | Paige Bueckers |
Coach: | Geno Auriemma |
Conference: | Big East |
Titlecount: | 22nd |
Champions: | UConn |
City: | Uncasville, Connecticut |
Arena: | Mohegan Sun Arena |
Teams: | 11 |
Gender: | Women's |
Division: | I |
Television: | FloSports, FS1, FS2 |
The 2024 Big East Women's Basketball Tournament is the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Big East Conference to be held March 8-11, 2024, at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.[1] After four days of play, the #1 seed UConn Huskies defeated the #8 seed Georgetown Hoyas 78–42, thereby receiving the conference's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Tournament.
All 11 Big East schools are scheduled to participate in the tournament. Teams will be seeded by the conference record with tie-breaking procedures to determine the seeds for teams with identical conference records. The top five teams will receive first-round byes. Seeding for the tournament will be determined at the close of the regular conference season.
Seed | School | Conference | Tiebreaker | |
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1 | UConn | 18–0 | ||
2 | Creighton | 15–3 | ||
3 | St. John's | 11–7 | 1–0 vs. Villanova | |
4 | Villanova | 11–7 | 0–1 vs. St. John's | |
5 | Marquette | 11–7 | 0–4 vs. St. John's/Villanova | |
6 | Georgetown | 9–9 | ||
7 | Seton Hall | 8–10 | ||
8 | Butler | 6–12 | 1–1 vs. St. John's | |
9 | Providence | 6–12 | 0–2 vs. St. John's | |
10 | DePaul | 4–14 | ||
11 | Xavier | 0–18 |
Game | Time | Matchup | Score | Television | Attendance | |
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First round – Friday, March 8 | ||||||
1 | 11:00 a.m. | No. 8 Butler vs. No. 9 Providence | 60–75 | BEDN | 4,898 | |
2 | 1:30 p.m. | No. 7 Seton Hall vs. No. 10 DePaul | 71–64 | |||
3 | 4:00 pm | No. 6 Georgetown vs. No. 11 Xavier | 62–40 | |||
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 9 | ||||||
4 | 12:00 pm | No. 1 UConn vs. No. 9 Providence | 86–53 | FS1 | 8,524 | |
5 | 2:30 pm | No. 4 Villanova vs. No. 5 Marquette | 48–50 | FS2 | ||
6 | 7:00 pm | No. 2 Creighton vs. No. 7 Seton Hall | 72–65 | 5,622 | ||
7 | 9:30 pm | No. 3 St. John's vs. No. 6 Georgetown | 44–53 | |||
Semifinals – Sunday, March 10 | ||||||
8 | 2:30 pm | No. 1 UConn vs. No. 5 Marquette | 58–29 | FS1 | 8,003 | |
9 | 5:00 pm | No. 2 Creighton vs. No. 6 Georgetown | 46–55 | |||
Championship – Monday, March 11 | ||||||
10 | 7:00 p.m. | No. 1 UConn vs. No. 6 Georgetown | 78–42 | FS1 | 7,918 | |
Game times in Eastern Time. Rankings denote tournament seed. |
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