2016 Southern Conference Women's Basketball Tournament

Classification

Season

Teams

Site

Champions

Chattanooga (17th title)

Winning coach

Jim Foster (3rd title)

Alicia Payne (Chattanooga)

Television

Southern Conference Women's Basketball Tournaments
«2015	2017»

2015–16 Southern Conference women's basketball standings
	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Chattanooga †	12	–	2	.857	24	–	8	.750
Mercer*	12	–	2	.857	24	–	9	.727
Samford	11	–	3	.786	20	–	11	.645
East Tennessee State	8	–	6	.571	16	–	14	.533
Furman	7	–	7	.500	15	–	16	.484
Wofford	3	–	11	.214	9	–	20	.310
Western Carolina	3	–	11	.214	6	–	22	.214
UNC Greensboro	0	–	14	.000	8	–	22	.267

† 2016 SoCon Tournament winner As of March 18, 2016; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2016 Southern Conference Women's Basketball Tournament will be held between Thursday, March 3 and Sunday, March 6 in Asheville, North Carolina, at the U.S. Cellular Center.^[1]

Seeds

Teams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

Seed	School	Conf (Overall)	Tiebreaker
#1	Mercer	12–2 (22–7)	1–1 vs. Chattanooga; 2–0 vs. Samford
#2	Chattanooga	12–2 (21–7)	1–1 vs. Mercer; 1–1 vs. Samford
#3	Samford	11–3 (19–10)
#4	East Tennessee State	8–6 (16–13)
#5	Furman	7–7 (14–15)
#6	Wofford	3–11 (9–19)	1–1 vs. Western Carolina; higher RPI
#7	Western Carolina	3–11 (6–21)	1–1 vs. Wofford
#8	UNC Greensboro	0–14 (8–21)

All tournament games are nationally televised on an ESPN network:

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup^#	Television	Attendance
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 3
2	1	11:30 AM	#1 Mercer vs. #8 UNC Greensboro	ESPN3
2	2	1:45 PM	#4 East Tennessee State vs. #5 Furman
3	6	4:00 PM	#2 Chattanooga vs. #7 Western Carolina		2,577
3	3	6:15 PM	#3 Samford vs. #6 Wofford		2,577
Semifinals – Friday, March 4
4	4	11:00 AM	#1 Mercer vs. #5 Furman	ESPN3
4	5	1:15 PM	#2 Chattanooga vs. #3 Samford	ESPN3
Championship Game – Sunday, March 6
6	10	1:00 PM	#1 Mercer vs. #2 Chattanooga	ESPN3	1,320
*Game Times in EST. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Quarterfinals Thursday, March 3, 2016			Semifinals Friday, March 4, 2016			Championship Game Sunday, March 6, 2016


1	Mercer	75

8	UNC Greensboro	53
			1	Mercer	64

			5	Furman	50
4	East Tennessee State	68

5	Furman	71
						1	Mercer	57

						2	Chattanooga	65
2	Chattanooga	74

7	Western Carolina	56
			2	Chattanooga	49

			3	Samford	41
3	Samford	63

6	Wofford	43

2016 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournaments

Conference	ACC American America East Atlantic 10 Atlantic Sun Big 12 Big East Big Sky Big South Big Ten Big West CAA Conference USA Horizon MAAC MEAC Mid-American Missouri Valley Mountain West Northeast Ohio Valley Pac-12 Patriot SEC Southern Southland SWAC Sun Belt The Summit League WAC West Coast

National	NCAA WNIT WBI

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