2019 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament

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]

2019 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2018–19
Teams	8
Site	Ford Center Evansville, Indiana
Champions	Belmont (4 title)
Winning coach	Bart Brooks (2 title)
MVP	Jenny Roy (Belmont)
Top scorer	Emanye Robertson (UT Martin) (58 points)
Television	ESPN+
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2018–19 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Belmont †	16	–	2		.889			26	–	7		.788
UT Martin	13	–	5		.722			23	–	9		.719
Morehead State	13	–	5		.722			24	–	11		.686
Tennessee Tech	12	–	6		.667			22	–	11		.667
Austin Peay	10	–	8		.556			15	–	15		.500
Jacksonville State	9	–	9		.500			15	–	15		.500
Murray State	9	–	9		.500			13	–	17		.433
SIU Edwardsville	8	–	10		.444			13	–	16		.448
Southeast Missouri State	8	–	10		.444			13	–	17		.433
Eastern Illinois	5	–	13		.278			11	–	18		.379
Tennessee State	5	–	13		.278			5	–	25		.167
Eastern Kentucky	0	–	18		.000			2	–	27		.069
† 2019 OVC tournament winner Rankings from AP poll

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

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	First round Wednesday, March 6 & Thursday, March 7 ESPN+ 1PM 1PM 3PM 3PM					Semifinals Friday, March 8 ESPN+ 1PM 3PM					Championship Saturday, March 9 ESPN+ 2PM
	1	Belmont	74
	8	Southeast Missouri	65
						1	Belmont	62
						4	Tennessee Tech	48
	4	Tennessee Tech	68
	5	Austin Peay	57
											1	Belmont	59
											3	UT Martin	53
	2	Morehead State	77
	7	Jacksonville State	60
						2	Morehead State	67
						3	UT Martin	68
	3	UT Martin	77
	6	Murray State	56

References

1. "2019 OVC Basketball Championships - Evansville, Indiana - Ohio Valley Conference". ovcsports.com. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
2. "UT Martin vs. Belmont - Box Score - March 9, 2019 - ESPN". ESPN.com. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
3. "Belmont women top UT Martin 59-53, 4th straight NCAA berth". www.msn.com. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
4. "OVC changing to women's basketball scheduling". The Leaf Chronicle. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
5. Kirshner, Alex (March 2, 2016). "The OVC Tournament is hard to peg". SBNation.com. Retrieved March 9, 2019.