The 2010 SEC women's basketball tournament was the championship tournament of the Southeastern Conference in the 2009–10 NCAA Division I women's basketball season . The winner of the tournament earned the SEC's automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA tournament . It was held at the Arena at Gwinnett Center in the Atlanta suburb of Duluth, Georgia from March 4 to March 7. The first round and quarterfinals were televised by Fox Sports South , the semifinals were aired by ESPNU , and the final aired on ESPN2 .
The regular-season champion, Tennessee , won the tournament, which was believed at the time to have secured a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament (which proved true).[ 1]
Seeds
All SEC schools played in the tournament. Teams were seeded by 2009–10 SEC season record, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Unlike men's basketball play, SEC women's play is not conducted in a divisional format; all 12 teams are organized in a single table. The top four teams in the regular-season standings received byes .
Schedule
Session
Game
Time*
Matchup#
Television
Attendance
First round - Thursday, March 4
1
1
12 noon
Fox Sports South
2,385
2
2:30 pm
Fox Sports South
2
3
6:30 pm
Fox Sports South
3,682
4
9:00 pm
Fox Sports South
Quarterfinals - Friday, March 5
3
5
12 noon
Fox Sports South
5,012
6
2:30 pm
Fox Sports South
4
7
6:30 pm
Fox Sports South
4,813
8
9:00 pm
Fox Sports South
Semifinals - Saturday, March 13
5
9
3:30 pm
#1 Tennessee vs. #5 Vanderbilt
6,148
10
6:00 pm
#2 Kentucky vs. #3 Mississippi State
Championship Game - Sunday, March 7
6
11
6:30 pm
#1 Tennessee vs. #2 Kentucky
5,854
*Game Times in ET [1] . #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.
2010 SEC tournament
First round March 4FSN
Second round March 5 FSN
Semifinals March 6ESPNU
SEC Championship Game March 7ESPN2
9
Ole Miss
64
8
South Carolina
63
9
Ole Miss
51
1
Tennessee
76
1
Tennessee
68
5
Vanderbilt
49
5
Vanderbilt
63
4
LSU
61
12
Arkansas
64
5
Vanderbilt
65
1
Tennessee
70
2
Kentucky
62
11
Alabama
66
6
Georgia
73
6
Georgia
52
3
Mississippi State
67
3
Mississippi State
65
2
Kentucky
76
10
Auburn
54
2
Kentucky
65
10
Auburn
74
7
Florida
61
References