SEC Women's Basketball Tournament

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The SEC Women's Basketball Tournament (sometimes known simply as the SEC Tournament) is the conference championship tournament in women's basketball for the Southeastern Conference (SEC). It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA women's basketball tournament.

The tournament is a seeded, single elimination tournament involving all league schools (currently 12). The top four teams in the conference receive byes in the first round, while #5 plays #12, #6 plays #11, #7 plays #10, and #8 plays #9. The winners of the first round games move on to face one of the top 4 seeds in the normal pairings of 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, and 4-5.

The tournament has been held since 1980.

[edit] Champions

Year School Site
1980 Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee
1981 Auburn Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1982 Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky
1983 Georgia Knoxville, Tennessee
1984 Georgia Athens, Georgia
1985 Tennessee Various Campus Sites
1986 Georgia Athens, Georgia
1987 Auburn Albany, Georgia
1988 Tennessee Albany, Georgia
1989 Tennessee Albany, Georgia
1990 Auburn Albany, Georgia
1991 LSU Albany, Georgia
1992 Tennessee Albany, Georgia
1993 Vanderbilt Chattanooga, Tennessee
1994 Tennessee Chattanooga, Tennessee
1995 Vanderbilt Chattanooga, Tennessee
1996 Tennessee Chattanooga, Tennessee
1997 Auburn Chattanooga, Tennessee
1998 Tennessee Columbus, Georgia
1999 Tennessee Chattanooga, Tennessee
2000 Tennessee Chattanooga, Tennessee
2001 Georgia Memphis, Tennessee
2002 Vanderbilt Nashville, Tennessee
2003 LSU Alltel Arena, North Little Rock, Arkansas
2004 Vanderbilt Nashville, Tennessee
2005 Tennessee Bi-Lo Center, Greenville, South Carolina
2006 Tennessee Alltel Arena, North Little Rock, Arkansas
2007 Vanderbilt Arena at Gwinnett Center, Duluth, Georgia
2008 Tennessee Sommet Center, Nashville, Tennessee
2009 Alltel Arena, North Little Rock, Arkansas

[edit] Championship by School

School Championships Years
Tennessee 13 1980, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2008
Vanderbilt 5 1993, 1995, 2002, 2004, 2007
Georgia 4 1983, 1984, 1986, 2001
Auburn 4 1981, 1987, 1990, 1997
LSU 2 1991, 2003
Kentucky 1 1982
Ole Miss 0
Mississippi State 0
South Carolina 0
Arkansas 0
Alabama 0
Florida 0

[edit] References

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SEC Women's Basketball Tournaments
1980's
1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989
1990's
1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
2000's
2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
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NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Conference Tournaments
ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac 10, SEC
Atlantic 10, CAA, Conference USA, Horizon, Mid-American, Missouri Valley, Mountain West, WAC, West Coast