2009 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament

For the men's basketball tournament, see 2009 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament.
2009 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Teams 12
Site Alltel Arena
North Little Rock, Arkansas
Champions Vanderbilt (6th title)
Winning coach Melanie Balcomb (3rd title)
MVP Christina Wirth (Vanderbilt)
SEC Women's Basketball Tournaments
«2008  2010»
2008–09 SEC women's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
#8 Auburn 12 – 2   .857     30 – 4   .882
#14 Vanderbilt† 10 – 4   .714     26 – 9   .743
LSU 10 – 4   .714     19 – 11   .633
#22 Florida 9 – 5   .643     24 – 8   .750
#18 Tennessee 9 – 5   .643     22 – 11   .667
Mississippi State 8 – 6   .571     23 – 10   .697
Georgia 7 – 7   .500     18 – 14   .563
Arkansas 6 – 8   .429     18 – 14   .563
Ole Miss 5 – 9   .357     18 – 15   .545
Kentucky 5 – 9   .357     16 – 16   .500
South Carolina 2 – 12   .143     10 – 18   .357
Alabama 1 – 13   .071     13 – 17   .433
† 2009 SEC Tournament winner
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2009 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament took place on March 5–8, 2009 in North Little Rock, Arkansas at Alltel Arena.

Vanderbilt won the tournament and with it the SEC's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Tournament. In the final, they upset top seed Auburn for the second time in three weeks; the Commodores were responsible for two of the Tigers' three losses going into the NCAA tournament.

Tournament

  First Round Second Round Semi-Finals Finals
                                     
9  Ole Miss 65  
8  Arkansas 60  
  9  Ole Miss 65  
    1  Auburn 71  
 
   
  1  Auburn 80  
  5  Tennessee 58  
12  Alabama 49  
5  Tennessee 68  
  5  Tennessee 71
    4  Florida 67  
 
   
  1  Auburn 54
  2  Vanderbilt 61
11  South Carolina 39  
6  Mississippi State 49  
  6  Mississippi State 58
    3  LSU 63  
 
   
  3  LSU 47
  2  Vanderbilt 61  
10  Kentucky 64  
7  Georgia 82  
  7  Georgia 61
    2  Vanderbilt 69  
 

Asterisk denotes game ended in overtime.

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