Great Lakes Valley Conference women's basketball tournament

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Great Lakes Valley Conference women's basketball tournament
Conference basketball championship
Sport Basketball
Conference Great Lakes Valley Conference
Format Single-elimination tournament
Played1998–present
Current champion Lewis (4th)
Most championships Drury (10)
Official website GLVC women's basketball

The Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) women's basketball tournament is the annual women's basketball championship tournament for the Great Lakes Valley Conference. The tournament was established in 1998, twenty years after the conference was founded in 1978. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. [1]

Contents

The tournament bracket has included as few as seven teams and as many as fifteen. The most common format has featured eight teams competing at the same predesignated neutral site as the GLVC men's basketball tournament. In 1998, 2008, 2009, and 2021, the quarterfinals were played on campus sites and the final four was held on the home court of the highest seed surviving the quarterfinals.

The tournament winner is conference champion and receives the GLVC's automatic bid to the NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament.

Drury has won the most tournaments, with ten.

Results

YearChampionsScoreRunner-upSite
1998 Southern Indiana 83–70 SIU Edwardsville PAC Arena, University of Southern Indiana (Evansville, IN)
1999 Northern Kentucky 74–72 Bellarmine Roberts Stadium (Evansville, IN)
2000Northern Kentucky (2)77–57 Indianapolis
2001Southern Indiana (2)95–73Northern Kentucky
2002Southern Indiana (3)89–79Northern Kentucky
2003Indianapolis74–63 Quincy
2004Quincy57–45Indianapolis
2005Quincy (2)66–60Indianapolis
2006Northern Kentucky (3)86–73 Drury
2007 Lewis 69–52Drury
2008Drury71–67Northern KentuckyWeiser Gym, Drury University (Springfield, MO)
2009Northern Kentucky (4)77–72QuincyPepsi Arena, Quincy University (Quincy, IL)
2010Drury (2)68–63 Wisconsin–Parkside The Recreation and Athletic Center,
University of Illinois - Springfield (Springfield, IL)
2011Lewis (2)71–68IndianapolisMoloney Arena, Maryville University (Town and Country, MO)
2012 Maryville 75–62 Kentucky Wesleyan Prairie Capital Convention Center (Springfield, IL)
2013Lewis (3)76–61Maryville Ford Center (Evansville, IN)
2014 Truman State 58–45Maryville
2015Drury (3)68–65Southern Indiana Family Arena (St. Charles, MO)
2016Bellarmine89–78Quincy
2017Drury (4)67–63LewisFord Center (Evansville, IN)
2018Drury (5)62–52Southern Indiana Vadalabene Center (Edwardsville, IL)
2019Drury (6)94–48Bellarmine
2020Drury (7)77–55Lewis
2021Drury (8)76–70Truman StateO'Reilly Family Event Center, Drury University (Springfield, MO)
2022Drury (9)76–47LewisVadalabene Center (Edwardsville, IL)
2023Drury (10)71-52Lewis Hyland Performance Arena (St. Charles, MO)
2024Lewis (4)79-67Drury

Championship records

SchoolFinals RecordFinals AppearancesChampionship Years
Drury 10–3132008, 2010, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Lewis 4–372007, 2011, 2013, 2024
Northern Kentucky 4–371999, 2000, 2006, 2009
Southern Indiana 3–251998, 2001, 2002
Quincy 2–352004, 2005
Indianapolis 1–452003
Maryville 1–342012
Bellarmine 1–232016
Truman State 1–122014
Kentucky Wesleyan 0–11
SIU Edwardsville 0–11
Wisconsin–Parkside 0–11

See also

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References

  1. "GLVC Women's Basketball Record Book" (PDF). Record book. GLVC. 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2022.