Big West Conference women's basketball tournament explained

Big West Conference women's basketball tournament
Sport:	College basketball
Conference:	Big West Conference
Number Of Teams:	10
Format:	Single-elimination tournament
Current Stadium:	Dollar Loan Center
Current Location:	Henderson, NV
Years:	1984–present
Most Recent:	2024
Current Champion:	UC Irvine
Most Championships:	UCSB (14)

The Big West Conference women's basketball tournament is the conference championship tournament in basketball for the Big West Conference. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. The winner, declared conference champion, receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship. The women's tournament has been played every year since 1983.

Tournament champions

style= colspan=5	Big West Conference women's basketball tournament
Year	Champion	Score	Runner-up	Tournament Site
1984	UNLV	90–55	UC Irvine Anteaters	UC Irvine	UNLV
1985	UNLV	61–60	UC Irvine	UC Irvine
1986	UNLV	99–89	Long Beach State	L.A. Forum, first round at LBS
1987		98–57	UNLV	L.A. Forum
1988		79–58	UNLV	L.A. Forum
1989	Long Beach State	89–81	UNLV	Long Beach Arena, opening qualifying game at LBS
1990	UNLV	67–64	Long Beach State	Long Beach Arena
1991	Long Beach State	71–60	Cal State Fullerton	Long Beach Arena
1992	UCSB	68–60	Long Beach State	Long Beach Arena
1993	UCSB	80–77	Hawai'i	Long Beach Arena
1994	UNLV	78–60	Hawai'i	Thomas & Mack Center
1995	UC Irvine	65–53	Pacific	Thomas & Mack Center
1996	Hawai'i	68–64	Pacific	Lawlor Events Center
1997	UCSB	81–66	UC Irvine	Lawlor Events Center
1998	UCSB	86–69	Boise State	Lawlor Events Center
1999	UCSB	94–67	Long Beach State	Lawlor Events Center
2000	UCSB	79–69	Long Beach State	Lawlor Events Center
2001	UCSB	79–76	Long Beach State	Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California
2002	UCSB	64–53	Pacific	Anaheim Convention Center
2003	UCSB	68–50	Pacific	Anaheim Convention Center
2004	UCSB	68–51	Idaho	Anaheim Convention Center
2005	UCSB	74–66	Idaho	Anaheim Convention Center
2006	UC Riverside	59–58	UCSB	Anaheim Convention Center
2007	UC Riverside	70–67	UCSB	Anaheim Convention Center
2008	UCSB	74–59	UC Davis	Anaheim Convention Center
2009	UCSB	64–57	Cal Poly SLO	Anaheim Convention Center
2010	UC Riverside	71–67	UC Davis	Anaheim Convention Center
2011	UC Davis	66–49	Cal Poly	Opening round at campus sites, semifinals and finals at Honda Center
2012	UCSB	63–54	Long Beach State	Opening round at campus sites, semifinals and finals at Honda Center
2013	Cal Poly	63–49	Pacific	Honda Center
2014		73–58	Cal Poly	Honda Center
2015		67–60		First two rounds at Titan Gym, semifinals and finals at Honda Center
2016		78–59	UC Davis	First two rounds at Bren Events Center, semifinals and finals at Honda Center
2017	Long Beach State	56–55	UCSB	First two rounds at Walter Pyramid, semifinals and finals at Honda Center
2018		63–55	UC Davis	First two rounds at Titan Gym, semifinals and finals at Honda Center
2019		58–50	Hawai'i	First two rounds at Bren Events Center, semifinals and finals at Honda Center
2020	Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
	UC Davis	61–42	UC Irvine	Michelob Ultra Arena
		59–48	UC Irvine	Dollar Loan Center
		61–59	UCSB	Dollar Loan Center
		53–39		Dollar Loan Center

Performance by school

Member	Winners	Winning Years
UCSB		1992, 1993, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2012
UNLV		1984, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1994
Long Beach State		1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 2017
Hawai'i		1996, 2016, 2022, 2023
Cal State Northridge		2014, 2015, 2018
UC Davis		2011, 2019, 2021
UC Riverside		2006, 2007, 2010
UC Irvine		1995, 2024
Cal Poly		2013

• Teams in bold represent current conference members

See also

• Big West Conference men's basketball tournament

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232356/http://www.bigwest.org//story.asp?story_id=15959