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SEC Women's Basketball Tournament

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Sport
  
Basketball

Last contest
  
2017

Number of teams
  
14

Played
  
1980–present

Conference
  
Southeastern Conference

SEC Women's Basketball Tournament

Format
  
Single-elimination tournament

Current stadium
  
Rotates – Bon Secours Wellness Arena in 2017

Current location
  
Rotates – Greenville, South Carolina in 2017

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The SEC Women's Basketball Tournament (sometimes known simply as the SEC Tournament) is the conference tournament in women's basketball for the Southeastern Conference (SEC). It is a single-elimination tournament that involves all league schools (currently 14), and seeded based on regular season records. The tournament was first held in 1980, and originally determined the conference champion. Even after the SEC began a uniform conference schedule in the 1982–83 season, the tournament continued to determine the official conference champion through the 1985 edition. Starting in the 1985–86 season, the SEC began awarding its official conference championship solely to the team(s) with the best regular-season record. This change brought SEC women's basketball in line with men's basketball, in which the SEC has awarded its official conference title based on regular-season record since the 1950–51 season.

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The tournament is a seeded, single-elimination tournament that normally involves all league schools (currently 14 after the addition of two schools in 2012). Seeding is based on regular-season records. Under the current format, the bottom four teams in the conference play first-round games, while the top four teams receive a "double-bye" and do not play until the quarterfinals. The 2013 tournament, the first after the most recent expansion, only had 13 teams participating, with Ole Miss self-imposing a postseason ban.

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References

SEC Women's Basketball Tournament Wikipedia