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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
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 November 22, 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

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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

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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

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  • All times central.
First round
Wednesday, March 4
Thursday, March 5
ESPN+
Semifinals
Friday, March 6
ESPN+
Championship
Saturday, March 7
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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

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  1. ^ "OVC changing to women's basketball scheduling". The Leaf Chronicle. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
  2. ^ Kirshner, Alex (March 2, 2016). "The OVC Tournament is hard to peg". SBNation.com. Retrieved March 9, 2019.