2012 Big East women's basketball tournament

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2012 Big East women's basketball tournament
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Tournament Logo
Classification Division I
Teams16
Site XL Center
Hartford, Connecticut
ChampionsConnecticut (18th title)
Winning coachGeno Auriemma (18th title)
TelevisionBigEast.tv, ESPN3, ESPNU, ESPN
  2011
2013  
2011–12 Big East Conference women's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Notre Dame 151 .938354  .897
Connecticut133 .813335  .868
St. John's 133 .8132410  .706
Georgetown 115 .688239  .719
West Virginia 115 .6882410  .706
Louisville 106 .6252310  .697
Rutgers 106 .6252210  .688
DePaul 97 .5632311  .676
South Florida 88 .5001916  .543
Syracuse 610 .3752215  .595
Villanova 610 .3751915  .559
Cincinnati 610 .3751616  .500
Providence 511 .3131317  .433
Marquette 412 .2501417  .452
Seton Hall 115 .063823  .258
Pittsburgh 016 .000822  .267
2012 Big East Basketball Tournament winner
Rankings from AP poll [1]

The 2012 Big East women's basketball tournament took place in March 2012 at the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut. The winner will receive the Big East Conference's automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA tournament. This was the third consecutive year Big East tournament to include all 16 of the conference's teams. The teams finishing 9 through 16 in the regular season standings played first round games, while teams 5 through 8 received byes to the second round. The top 4 teams during the regular season received double-byes to the quarterfinals.

Contents

Final regular season standing

2011–12 Big East Women's Basketball Standings [2]
SeedSchoolConfOverallTiebreaker
#1‡†Notre Dame 15-128-2
#2St. John's 13-321-81-0 vs CONN
#3Connecticut 13-326-40-1 vs STJ
#4Georgetown 11-522-71-0 vs WVU
#5#West Virginia 11-521-80-1 vs GU
#6#Rutgers 10-621-81-0 vs LOU
#7#Louisville 10-621-80-1 vs RUT
#8#DePaul 9-721-9
#9 South Florida 8-816-14
#10 Villanova 6-1016-131-0 vs CIN
1-0 vs SYR
#11 Cincinnati 6-1015-140-1 vs NOVA
1-0 vs SYR
#12 Syracuse 6-1017-130-1 vs NOVA
0-1 vs CIN
#13 Providence 5-1113-16
#14 Marquette 4-1213-16
#15 Seton Hall 1-158-22
#16 Pittsburgh 0-168-21
‡ – Big East regular season champions, and tournament No. 1 seed.
† – Received a double-bye in the conference tournament.
# – Received a single-bye in the conference tournament.
Overall records are as of the end of the regular season.
2012 NCAA Tournament Selection
2012 WNIT Tournament Selection

‡ Regular season Big East champion

Bracket

First round
Friday, March 2, 2012
Bigeast.tv
Second round
Saturday, March 3, 2012
BETV
Quarterfinals
Sunday, March 4, 2012
ESPNU
Semifinals
Monday, March 5, 2012
ESPNU
Championship Game
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
ESPN
               
4 Georgetown  
 BYE  
4 Georgetown 32
5 West Virginia39
5 West Virginia 63
12 Syracuse 48
12 Syracuse 57
13 Providence 47
5 West Virginia 45
1 Notre Dame73
1 Notre Dame  
 BYE  
1 Notre Dame69
8 DePaul 54
8 DePaul 76
9 South Florida 62
9 South Florida 60
16 Pittsburgh 59
1 Notre Dame 54
3 Connecticut63
2 St. John's  
 BYE  
2 St. John's68OT
7 Louisville 61
7 Louisville 63
10 Villanova 47
10 Villanova 61
15 Seton Hall 60
2 St. John's 43
3 Connecticut74
3 Connecticut  
 BYE  
3 Connecticut49
6 Rutgers 34
6 Rutgers 52
14 Marquette 43
11 Cincinnati 51
14 Marquette 54

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References

  1. "NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Standings - 2011-12". ESPN. Retrieved 1 Dec 2016.
  2. "2011-12 BIG EAST Women's Basketball - Standings/Schedules". Archived from the original on 2012-05-26. Retrieved 2012-03-04.