2003 SEC women's basketball tournament

The 2003 Southeastern Conference women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Southeastern Conference (SEC) held at the Verizon Arena (now the Simmons Bank Arena) in North Little Rock, Arkansas, from March6 – 9, 2003.

LSU won the tournament by beating Tennessee on March 9, 2003 by the score of 78 to 62 and received the SEC's automatic bid to the 2003 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. Seeds All teams in the conference participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by their conference record. Seed School Conferencerecord Overallrecord 1Tennessee‡†14–033–5 2LSU†11–330–4 3Georgia†10–421–10 4Mississippi State†10–424–8 5South Carolina9–523–8 6Vanderbilt9–522–10 7Arkansas7–722–11 8Auburn5–923–11 9Kentucky4–1011–16 10Alabama3–1113–15‡ – SEC regular season champions, and tournament No. 1 seed.† – Received a bye in the conference tournament.Overall records include all games played in the SEC Tournament.

Schedule GameMatchup#Score First Round – Thurs, Mar 6179–64274–58353–48468–62 Quarterfinal – Fri, Mar 7566–51678–72770–74879–75 Semifinal – Sat, Mar 8979–751078–69 Championship – Sun, Mar 91162–78 # – Rankings denote tournament seed Bracket

Asterisk denotes game ended in overtime. All-Tournament team Shameka Christon, Arkansas Temeka Johnson, LSU (MVP) Seimone Augustus, LSU LaToya Thomas, Miss. State Kara Lawson, Tennessee

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