1980 SEC women's basketball tournament

The 1980 Southeastern Conference women's basketball tournament was a midseason women's basketball tournament for the Southeastern Conference (SEC) held at the Stokely Athletic Center in Knoxville, Tennessee, from February7 – 10, 1980. It was the first SEC women's basketball tournament in history and the Tennessee Lady Volunteers won the tournament defeating the Ole Miss Rebels 85-71. Tennessee earned an automatic bid to the 1980 AIAW National Division I Basketball Championship for their victory.

Notably, women’s basketball was not officially sponsored by the SEC until the 1982-83 season.

Seeds All teams in the conference participated in the tournament. Seed School Overall RecordConference Record 1Tennessee‡†19–34–0 2Kentucky†15–22–1 3Ole Miss†18–113–1 4LSU†15–101–2 5Georgia†14–93–1 6Auburn†14–64–0 7Alabama9–121–4 8Mississippi State10–142–5 9Vanderbilt11–102–2 10Florida4–141–7‡ – SEC tournament No. 1 seed.† – Received a bye in the conference tournament. Schedule GameMatchup#Score First Round – Thurs, Feb 7162–68269–63 Quarterfinal – Fri, Feb 83118–44477–69580–70664–70 Semifinal – Sat, Feb 9772–61862–79 Championship – Sun, Feb 10985–71 # – Rankings denote tournament seed Bracket

Asterisk denotes game ended in overtime.

All-Tournament team Lori Monroe, Auburn Valerie Still, Kentucky Peggie Gillom, Ole Miss Carol Ross, Ole Miss Cindy Noble, Tennessee Jill Rankin, Tennessee (MVP) Holly Warlick, Tennessee

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