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 | |
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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 |
2017–18 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 |
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 |
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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
- 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
- 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 2019-03-09.
- "OVC changing to women's basketball scheduling". The Leaf Chronicle. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- Kirshner, Alex (2016-03-02). "The OVC Tournament is hard to peg". SBNation.com. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- "2019 OVC Tournament Guide". indd.adobe.com. Retrieved 2019-03-09.