2018 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament

The 2018 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament ended the 2017–18 season of Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball. The tournament was held February 28–March 3 at Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana.[1] Regular-season champion Belmont won the tournament and with it the OVC's automatic berth in the NCAA tournament.[2]

2018 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season2017–18
Teams8
SiteFord Center
Evansville, Indiana
ChampionsBelmont (3rd title)
Winning coachBart Brooks (1st title)
MVPDarby Maggard (Belmont)
TelevisionESPN+/ESPN3
2017–18 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
No. 23 Belmont †18–0 1.00031–4  .886
UT Martin13–5 .72219–15  .559
SIU Edwardsville13–5 .72217–15  .531
Morehead State12–6 .66721–11  .656
Jacksonville State12–6 .66719–12  .613
Austin Peay9–9 .50016–14  .533
Southeast Missouri State9–9 .50014–17  .452
Murray State7–11 .38911–19  .367
Eastern Kentucky5–13 .2788–19  .296
Tennessee Tech4–14 .2227–22  .241
Tennessee State4–14 .2226–21  .222
Eastern Illinois2–16 .1113–26  .103
† 2018 OVC tournament winner
As of March 17, 2018
Rankings from AP poll

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).[3][4]

Seeds
Seed School Conference Overall Tiebreaker
1 Belmont 18–0 28–3
2 UT Martin 13–5 18–13
3 SIUE 13–5 16–13
4 Jacksonville State 12–6 18–11
5 Morehead State 12–6 21–10
6 Austin Peay 9–9 16–13
7 Southeast Missouri 9–9 14–16
8 Murray State 5–9 9–16
– Eastern Kentucky 5–9 8–15
– Tennessee Tech 3–11 6–19
– Tennessee State 3–11 5–18
– Eastern Illinois 1–13 2–23

Bracket
  • All times central. Television[5]
First round
Wednesday, February 28 & Thursday, March 1
ESPN+/ESPN3
1PM
1PM
3PM
3PM 		Semifinals
Friday, March 2
ESPN+/ESPN3
1PM
3PM 		Championship
Saturday, March 3
ESPN+/ESPN3
2PM
         
1 Belmont 88
8 Murray State 64
1 Belmont 63
4 Jacksonville State 53
4 Jacksonville State 69
5 Morehead Sate 56
1 Belmont 63
2 UT Martin 56
2 UT Martin 63
7 Southeast Missouri 60
2 UT Martin 69
3 SIUE 67
3 SIUE 76
6 Austin Peay 43

References
  1. 2018 OVC Men's & Women's Basketball Championships
  2. "Belmont women's basketball wins OVC title in OT, makes third straight NCAA tournament". The Tennessean. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
  3. "OVC changing to women's basketball scheduling". The Leaf Chronicle. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
  4. Kirshner, Alex (March 2, 2016). "The OVC Tournament is hard to peg". SBNation.com. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
  5. "2019 OVC Tournament Guide". indd.adobe.com. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
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