2018 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament
2018 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament | |
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Classification | Division I |
Season | 2017–18 |
Teams | 8 |
Site | Ford Center Evansville, Indiana |
Champions | Belmont (3rd title) |
Winning coach | Bart Brooks (1st title) |
MVP | Darby Maggard (Belmont) |
Television | ESPN+/ESPN3 |
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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
[edit]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
[edit]Seed | School | Conference | Overall | Tiebreaker |
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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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ 2018 OVC Men's & Women's Basketball Championships
- ^ "Belmont women's basketball wins OVC title in OT, makes third straight NCAA tournament". The Tennessean. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
- ^ "OVC changing to women's basketball scheduling". The Leaf Chronicle. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
- ^ Kirshner, Alex (March 2, 2016). "The OVC Tournament is hard to peg". SBNation.com. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
- ^ "2019 OVC Tournament Guide". indd.adobe.com. Retrieved March 9, 2019.