1982 SEC women's basketball tournament

The 1982 Southeastern Conference women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Southeastern Conference (SEC) held at Memorial Coliseum in Lexington, Kentucky, from February25–28, 1982. The Kentucky Wildcats won the tournament by beating the Tennessee Lady Volunteers and earned an automatic bid to the 1982 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.

This was the final year the SEC was not officially sponsoring the tournament. Florida did not attend the tournament, leaving the field of teams at 9 and marking the only time all teams didn't attend the tournament Seeds All teams in the conference participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by their conference record. Seed School Conferencerecord Overallrecord Tiebreaker 1Tennessee‡†7–122–10 2Ole Miss†7–127–5 3Kentucky†6–224–8 4Auburn†6–224–5 5Georgia5–321–9 6Alabama4–416–13 7LSU3–518–13 8Vanderbilt1–720–14 9Mississippi State0–811–15‡ – 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, Feb 25187–67 Quarterfinal – Fri, Feb 26280–75373–77482–76565–66 Semifinal – Sat, Feb 27655–44771–85 Championship – Sun, Feb 28874–80 # – Rankings denote tournament seed Tournament

All-Tournament team Janet Harris, Georgia Patty Jo Hedges, Kentucky Valerie Still, Kentucky (MVP) Joyce Walker, LSU Tanya Haave, Tennessee Mary Ostrowski, Tennessee

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