The 2010 SEC women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Southeastern Conference (SEC) for the 2009–10 NCAA Division I women's basketball season and held at the Arena at Gwinnett Center in the Atlanta suburb of Duluth, Georgia from March4 – 7, 2010. The winner of the tournament earned the SEC's automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA tournament. The first round and quarterfinals were televised by Fox Sports South, the semifinals were aired by ESPNU, and the final aired on ESPN2.
The regular-season champion, Tennessee, won the tournament and secured a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Seeds
All SEC schools played in the tournament. Teams were seeded by 2009–10 SEC season record, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Unlike men's basketball play, SEC women's play is not conducted in a divisional format; all 12 teams are organized in a single table. The top four teams in the regular-season standings received byes. Seed School Conferencerecord Overallrecord Tiebreaker 1Tennessee‡†15–132–3 2Kentucky†11–528–8 3Mississippi State†9–721–13 4LSU†9–721–10 5Vanderbilt9–723–11 6Georgia9–725–9 7Florida7–915–17 8South Carolina7–914–15 9Ole Miss7–917–15 10Auburn5–1115–16‡ – SEC regular season champions, and tournament No. 1 seed.† – Received a bye in the conference tournament.Overall records include all games played in the SEC Tournament.
Schedule
SessionGameTime*Matchup#TelevisionAttendance First round - Thursday, March 412 noonFox Sports South2:30 pmFox Sports South6:30 pmFox Sports South9:00 pmFox Sports South Quarterfinals - Friday, March 512 noonFox Sports South2:30 pmFox Sports South6:30 pmFox Sports South9:00 pmFox Sports South Semifinals - Saturday, March 63:30 pm6:00 pm Championship Game - Sunday, March 76:30 pm *Game Times in ET. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.
2010 SEC tournament
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