2018 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament

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
2019 →
2017–18 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
No. 23 Belmont † 18 – 0   1.000 31 – 4   .886
UT Martin 13 – 5   .722 19 – 15   .559
SIU Edwardsville 13 – 5   .722 17 – 15   .531
Morehead State 12 – 6   .667 21 – 11   .656
Jacksonville State 12 – 6   .667 19 – 12   .613
Austin Peay 9 – 9   .500 16 – 14   .533
Southeast Missouri State 9 – 9   .500 14 – 17   .452
Murray State 7 – 11   .389 11 – 19   .367
Eastern Kentucky 5 – 13   .278 8 – 19   .296
Tennessee Tech 4 – 14   .222 7 – 22   .241
Tennessee State 4 – 14   .222 6 – 21   .222
Eastern Illinois 2 – 16   .111 3 – 26   .103
† 2018 OVC tournament winner
As of March 17, 2018
Rankings from AP poll

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]

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 State 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.