2018 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament

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2018 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season2017–18
Teams8
SiteFord Center
Evansville, Indiana
ChampionsBelmont (3rd title)
Winning coach (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
13 – 5   .722 17 – 15   .531
12 – 6   .667 21 – 11   .656
12 – 6   .667 19 – 12   .613
9 – 9   .500 16 – 14   .533
9 – 9   .500 14 – 17   .452
7 – 11   .389 11 – 19   .367
5 – 13   .278 8 – 19   .296
4 – 14   .222 7 – 22   .241
4 – 14   .222 6 – 21   .222
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 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[]

  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 2019-03-09.
  3. ^ "OVC changing to women's basketball scheduling". The Leaf Chronicle. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  4. ^ Kirshner, Alex (2016-03-02). "The OVC Tournament is hard to peg". SBNation.com. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  5. ^ "2019 OVC Tournament Guide". indd.adobe.com. Retrieved 2019-03-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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