2020 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament

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2020 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season2019–20
Teams8
SiteFord Center
Evansville, Indiana
ChampionsSoutheast Missouri State (2nd title)
Winning coachRekha Patterson (1st title)
TelevisionESPN+
← 2019
2021 →
2019–20 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
16 – 2   .889 21 – 8   .724
16 – 2   .889 20 – 9   .690
† 14 – 4   .778 22 – 7   .759
12 – 6   .667 18 – 11   .621
10 – 8   .556 17 – 12   .586
10 – 8   .556 14 – 15   .483
9 – 9   .500 18 – 11   .621
7 – 11   .389 14 – 15   .483
6 – 12   .333 10 – 20   .333
5 – 13   .278 11 – 18   .379
2 – 16   .111 4 – 24   .143
1 – 17   .056 3 – 26   .103
† 2020 OVC Tournament winner
As of February 1, 2022; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2020 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament ended the 2019-20 season of Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball. The tournament was held March 4-7, 2020 at Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana. Southeast Missouri State was the winner, receiving an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

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).[1][2]

Seeds[]

Seed School Conference Overall Tiebreaker
1 UT Martin 16–2 20–9
2 Belmont 16–2 22–8
3 Southeast Missouri State 14–4 22–7
4 Eastern Illinois 12–6 28–11
5 Jacksonville State 10–8 14–15 2–0 vs. Tennessee Tech
6 Tennessee Tech 10–8 17–12 0–2 vs. Jacksonville State
7 Austin Peay 9–9 18–11
8 Murray State 7–11 14–16

Bracket[]

  • All times central.
First Round
Wednesday, March 4
Thursday, March 5
ESPN+ 		Semifinals
Friday, March 6
ESPN+ 		Championship
Saturday, March 7
ESPN+
         
1 UT Martin 88
8 Murray State 33
1 UT Martin 63
4 Eastern Illinois 52
4 Eastern Illinois 49
5 Jacksonville State 46
1 UT Martin 47
3 Southeast Missouri State 67
2 Belmont 76*
7 Austin Peay 73
2 Belmont 99
3 Southeast Missouri State 114
3 Southeast Missouri State 82*
6 Tennessee Tech 81

* denotes overtime period

References[]

  1. ^ "OVC changing to women's basketball scheduling". The Leaf Chronicle. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  2. ^ Kirshner, Alex (2016-03-02). "The OVC Tournament is hard to peg". SBNation.com. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
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