Mountain East Conference women's basketball tournament

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Mountain East Conference women's basketball tournament
Conference basketball championship
Sport Basketball
Conference Mountain East Conference
Number of teams10
Format Single-elimination tournament
Current stadium WesBanco Arena
Current location Wheeling, WV
Played2014–present
Current champion Fairmont State (2nd)
Most championships Glenville State (5)
Official website MEC women's basketball
Host stadiums
WesBanco Arena (2019-present)
Charleston Civic Center (2014–2018)
Host locations
Wheeling, WV (2019-present)
Charleston, WV(2014–2018)

The Mountain East Conference women's basketball tournament is the annual conference women'sbasketball championship tournament for the Mountain East Conference. The tournament has been held annually since the MEC's establishment in 2013, with the first tournament taking place in 2014. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. [1]

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From 2014 to 2018, the tournament was hosted by the Charleston Civic Center in Charleston, West Virginia. Following several years of low attendance, the league announce it would move the event to the Wheeling Civic Center in Wheeling.

The winner receives the MEC's automatic bid to the NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament.

Results

YearChampionsScoreRunner-upVenue
2014 Glenville State 74–50 Charleston (WV) Charleston Civic Center Coliseum (Charleston, WV)
2015 West Liberty 76–55 Notre Dame (OH)
2016 Wheeling Jesuit 70–66West Liberty
2017Wheeling Jesuit80–61 Fairmont State
2018Glenville State81–77Notre Dame (OH)
2019Glenville State78–69Charleston (WV) WesBanco Arena (Wheeling, WV)
2020Glenville State80–75Notre Dame (OH)
2021Charleston87–80Glenville State
2022Charleston80–77Glenville State
2023Glenville State76–59Charleston
2024Fairmont State81–67 West Virginia State
2025Fairmont State79–65Glenville State

Championship records

SchoolFinals RecordFinals AppearancesYears
Glenville State 5–382014, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023
Charleston 2–352021, 2022
Fairmont State 2–132024, 2025
Wheeling
(Wheeling Jesuit)
2–022016, 2017
West Liberty 1–122015
Notre Dame (OH) 0–33
West Virginia State 0–11

See also

References

  1. "MEC Women's Basketball Tournament History" (PDF). Year-by-year records. Mountain East Conference. 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2021.