The 2019 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament ended the 2018–19 season of Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball. The tournament was held March 6–March 9 at Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana.[1] Belmont won the championship, defeating UT Martin 59–53.[2] Belmont's Jenny Roy was named tournament MVP.[3]
Format
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).[4][5]
Seeds
Seed
School
Conference
Overall
1
Belmont
16–2
25–6
2
Morehead State
13–5
23–10
3
UT Martin
13–5
22–8
4
Tennessee Tech
12–6
21–9
5
Austin Peay
10–8
15–15
6
Murray State
9–9
13–17
7
Jacksonville State
9–9
14–16
8
Southeast Missouri
5–9
9–16
–
SIU Edwardsville
8–10
13–17
–
Eastern Illinois
5–13
11–18
–
Tennessee State
5–13
5–25
–
Eastern Kentucky
0–18
2–27
Bracket
All times central.
First round Wednesday, March 6 & Thursday, March 7 ESPN+ 1PM 1PM 3PM 3PM
