Atlantic 10 Women's Basketball Tournament

The Atlantic 10 Women's Basketball Tournament is the conference championship tournament in women's basketball for the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10). It is a single-elimination tournament involving all of the 14 league schools, and seeding is based on regular-season records with head-to-head match-up as a tie-breaker. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA women's basketball tournament.

Atlantic 10 Women's Basketball Tournament
Conference Basketball Championship
SportBasketball
ConferenceAtlantic 10 Conference
Number of teams14
FormatSingle-elimination tournament
Current stadiumPalumbo Center
Current locationPittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Played1983–present
Last contest2019
Current championDayton
Most championshipsGeorge Washington (7)
Official websiteAtlantic 10 Women's Basketball

The top eight teams in the conference receive byes in the first round, while #12 plays #13 and #11 plays #14. The top four teams receive byes in the second round, while #5 plays the winner of #12/#13, #6 plays the winner of #11/#14, #7 plays #10, and #8 plays #9. The winners of the second-round games move on to face one of the top four seeds in the format of a normal eight-team bracket: #1 vs. #8 or #9; #2 vs. #7 or #10; #3 vs #6, #11 or #14; and #4 vs #5, #12 or #13.

The tournament has been held since 1983.[1][2]

Champions
Year School Site
1983 Penn State Louis Brown Athletic Center, Piscataway, New Jersey
1984 Penn State Rec Hall, University Park, Pennsylvania
1985 Penn State Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1986 Penn State WVU Coliseum, Morgantown, West Virginia
1987 Rutgers Louis Brown Athletic Center, Piscataway, New Jersey
1988 Rutgers Louis Brown Athletic Center, Piscataway, New Jersey
1989 West Virginia Louis Brown Athletic Center, Piscataway, New Jersey
1990 Penn State Rec Hall, University Park, Pennsylvania
1991 Penn State Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1992 George Washington Louis Brown Athletic Center, Piscataway, New Jersey
1993 Rutgers Charles E. Smith Athletic Center, Washington, D.C.
1994 Rutgers Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1995 George Washington Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1996 George Washington Cassell Coliseum, Blacksburg, Virginia
1997 Saint Joseph's Charles E. Smith Athletic Center, Washington, D.C.
1998 Virginia Tech William D. Mullins Memorial Center, Amherst, Massachusetts
1999 Saint Joseph's Apollo of Temple, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2000 Xavier Liacouras Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2001 Xavier Liacouras Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2002 Temple Liacouras Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2003 George Washington Charles E. Smith Athletic Center, Washington, D.C.
2004 Temple Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2005 Temple Charles E. Smith Athletic Center, Washington, D.C.
2006 Temple Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2007 Xavier Cintas Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
2008 Xavier Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2009 Charlotte Dale F. Halton Arena, Charlotte, North Carolina
2010 Xavier The Show Place Arena, Upper Marlboro, Maryland
2011 Xavier Tsongas Center, Lowell, Massachusetts
2012 Dayton Hagan Arena, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2013 Saint Joseph's Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York
2014 Fordham Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, Virginia
2015 George Washington Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, Virginia
2016 George Washington Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, Virginia
2017 Dayton Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, Virginia
2018 George Washington Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, Virginia
2019 Fordham Palumbo Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2020 Dayton UD Arena, Dayton, Ohio
2021 Siegel Center, Richmond, Virginia

Championship by School
School Championships Years
George Washington 7 1992, 1995, 1996, 2003, 2015, 2016, 2018
Xavier[lower-alpha 1] 6 2000, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011
Penn State[lower-alpha 1] 6 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1991
Rutgers[lower-alpha 1] 4 1987, 1988, 1993, 1994
Temple[lower-alpha 1] 4 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006
Saint Joseph's 3 1997, 1999, 2013
Dayton 3 2012, 2017, 2020
Fordham 2 2014, 2019
West Virginia[lower-alpha 1] 1 1989
Virginia Tech[lower-alpha 1] 1 1998
Charlotte[lower-alpha 1] 1 2009
Butler[lower-alpha 1] 0
Duquesne 0
Davidson 0
La Salle 0
UMass 0
Rhode Island 0
Richmond 0
St. Bonaventure 0
Saint Louis 0
VCU 0
George Mason 0
  1. Former A-10 member.

References
  1. http://www.atlantic10.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=31600&SPID=136229&SPSID=799995
  2. https://issuu.com/atlantic10conference/docs/wbb-mg?SPSID=799995&SPID=136229&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=31600
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