2020 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament
2020 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament | |
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Classification | Division I |
Season | 2019–20 |
Teams | 8 |
Site | Ford Center Evansville, Indiana |
Champions | Southeast Missouri State (2nd title) |
Winning coach | Rekha Patterson (1st title) |
Television | ESPN+ |
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Belmont | 16 | – | 2 | .889 | 21 | – | 8 | .724 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UT Martin | 16 | – | 2 | .889 | 20 | – | 9 | .690 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Southeast Missouri State† | 14 | – | 4 | .778 | 22 | – | 7 | .759 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eastern Illinois | 12 | – | 6 | .667 | 18 | – | 11 | .621 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tennessee Tech | 10 | – | 8 | .556 | 17 | – | 12 | .586 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jacksonville State | 10 | – | 8 | .556 | 14 | – | 15 | .483 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Austin Peay | 9 | – | 9 | .500 | 18 | – | 11 | .621 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Murray State | 7 | – | 11 | .389 | 14 | – | 15 | .483 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Morehead State | 6 | – | 12 | .333 | 10 | – | 20 | .333 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eastern Kentucky | 5 | – | 13 | .278 | 11 | – | 18 | .379 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tennessee State | 2 | – | 16 | .111 | 4 | – | 24 | .143 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SIU Edwardsville | 1 | – | 17 | .056 | 3 | – | 26 | .103 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† 2020 OVC tournament winner As of December 19, 2024 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
[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).[1][2]
Seeds
[edit]Seed | School | Conference | Overall | Tiebreaker |
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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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ "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.