College basketball tournament
The 2018 Southern Conference women's basketball tournament was held between March 1 and 4 in Asheville, North Carolina, at the U.S. Cellular Center.[1] Mercer defeated ETSU to claim their first-ever SoCon tournament championship.
Seeds
Teams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
Schedule
All tournament games are nationally televised on an ESPN network:
| Session
|
Game
|
Time*
|
Matchup#
|
Television
|
Attendance
|
| Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 1
|
| 1
|
1
|
11 AM
|
#1 Mercer vs. #8 Western Carolina
|
ESPN3
|
|
| 2
|
1:15 PM
|
#4 Furman vs. #5 Samford
|
| 2
|
3
|
3:30 PM
|
#2 ETSU vs. #7 Wofford
|
|
| 4
|
5:45 PM
|
#3 Chattanooga vs. #6 UNCG
|
| Semifinals – Friday, March 2
|
| 3
|
5
|
11:00 AM
|
#1 Mercer vs. #5 Samford
|
ESPN3
|
|
| 6
|
1:15 PM
|
#2 ETSU vs. #6 UNCG
|
| Championship Game – Sunday, March 4
|
| 4
|
7
|
Noon
|
#1 Mercer vs. #2 ETSU
|
ESPN3
|
|
| *Game Times in EST. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.
|
Bracket
| Quarterfinals
Thursday, March 1, 2018
ESPN3
| | | Semifinals
Friday, March 2, 2018
ESPN3
| | | Championship game
Sunday, March 4, 2018
ESPN3
| |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 1
| Mercer
| 75
| | | |
|
| 8
| Western Carolina
| 44
| |
| | 1
| Mercer
| 81
| |
|
| |
| | | 5
| Samford
| 44
| |
| 4
| Furman
| 48
| |
| |
| 5
| Samford
| 59
| |
| | 1
| Mercer
| 68
| |
|
| |
| | | 2
| ETSU
| 53
| |
| 2
| ETSU
| 78
| | |
| |
| 7
| Wofford
| 64
| |
| | 2
| ETSU
| 54
| |
|
| |
| | | 6
| UNCG
| 52
| |
| 3
| Chattanooga
| 66
| |
| |
| 6
| UNCG
| 70
| |
See also
References
