2022 Southland Conference women's basketball tournament

2022 Southland Conference women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2021–22
Teams	8
Site	Merrell Center Katy, Texas
Champions	Incarnate Word (1st title)
Winning coach	Jeff Dow (1st title)
MVP	Tiana Gardner (Incarnate Word)
Television	ESPN+, ESPN2
Southland Conference women's basketball tournaments

The 2022 Southland Conference women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the 2021–22 season in the Southland Conference. The tournament took place March 10–13, 2022. The tournament winner received an automatic invitation to the 2022 NCAA Division I women’s basketball tournament.

2021–22 Southland Conference women's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Houston Baptist	12	–	2		.857			16	–	11		.593
Texas A&M–Corpus Christi	11	–	3		.786			19	–	10		.655
Southeastern Louisiana	10	–	4		.714			16	–	11		.593
McNeese State	8	–	6		.571			13	–	15		.464
Incarnate Word †	5	–	9		.357			13	–	17		.433
Northwestern State	5	–	9		.357			12	–	14		.462
New Orleans	3	–	11		.214			5	–	18		.217
Nicholls	2	–	12		.143			4	–	22		.154
† 2022 Southland tournament winner

Seeds

Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tie-breaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. All eight teams in the conference qualified for the tournament. The top two seeds received double byes into the semifinals in the merit-based format. The No. 3 and No. 4 seeds received single byes to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers used are 1) Head-to-head results, 2) comparison of records against individual teams in the conference starting with the top-ranked team(s) and working down and 3) NCAA NET rankings available on the day following the conclusion of regular-season play.

Seed	School	Conference	Tiebreaker
1	Houston Baptist	12-2
2	Texas A&M-CC	11-3
3	Southeastern Louisiana	10–4
4	McNeese State	8-6
5	Incarnate Word	5-9	2-0 vs. Northwestern State
6	Northwestern State	5–9	0-2 vs. Incarnate Word
7	New Orleans	3-11
8	Nicholls	2-12

Schedule

First round – Thursday, March 10, 2022
1	1	11:00 am	No. 5 Incarnate Word vs. No. 8 Nicholls	74–73	ESPN+
	2	1:30 pm	No. 6 Northwestern State vs. No. 7 New Orleans	48-57
Quarterfinals – Friday, March 11, 2022
2	3	11:00 am	No. 4 McNeese vs. No. 5 Incarnate Word	63-90	ESPN+
	4	1:30 pm	No. 3 Southeastern Louisiana vs. No. 7 New Orleans	80-66
Semifinals – Saturday, March 12, 2022
3	5	1:00 pm	No. 1 Houston Baptist vs. No. 5 Incarnate Word	33-54	ESPN+
	6	3:30 pm	No. 2 Texas A&M-CC vs. No. 3 Southeastern Louisiana	54-59*
Championship – Sunday, March 13, 2022
4	7	1:00 pm	No. 5 Incarnate Word vs. No. 3 Southeastern Louisiana	56–52*	CBSSN
*Game times in CDT. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

	First round Thursday, March 10 ESPN+					Second round Friday, March 11 ESPN+					Semifinals Saturday, March 12 ESPN+					Championship Sunday, March 13 CBSSN
											1	Houston Baptist	33
											5	Incarnate Word	54
						4	McNeese	63
	5	Incarnate Word	74			5	Incarnate Word	90
	8	Nicholls	73													5	Incarnate Word	56*
																3	Southeastern Louisiana	52
											2	Texas A&M-CC	54
											3	Southeastern Louisiana	59*
						3	Southeastern Louisiana	80
	6	Northwestern State	48			7	New Orleans	66
	7	New Orleans	57

* denotes number of overtime periods