The 2011 SEC women's basketball tournament took place at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee from March 3–6, 2011. The Tennessee Lady Volunteers won the tournament and received the SEC's automatic bid to the 2011 NCAA women's basketball tournament by defeating the Kentucky Wildcats 90–65 in the championship game. Seeds
All SEC schools played in the tournament. Teams were seeded by their 2010–11 SEC season record, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Unlike men's basketball play, SEC women's play is not conducted in a divisional format; all 12 teams are organized in a single table. The top four teams on the regular-season table received byes. Seeds All teams in the conference participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by their conference record. Seed School Conferencerecord Overallrecord Tiebreaker 1Tennessee‡†16–034–3 2Kentucky†11–525–9 3Vanderbilt†10–620–12 4Georgia†10–623–11 5South Carolina†8–818–15 6Auburn†8–816–16 7LSU8–819–13 8Florida7–920–15 9Arkansas6–1022–12 10Alabama5–1118–15 11Mississippi State4–1213–17 12Ole Miss3–1310–19‡ – 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
SessionGameTime*Matchup#TelevisionAttendance First Round - Thursday, March 3111:00 pm#9 Arkansas vs. #8 FloridaFox Sports South3,51923:30 pm#10 Alabama vs. #7 LSUFox Sports South237:30 pm#12 Ole Miss vs. #5 South CarolinaFox Sports South3,827410:00 pm#11 Mississippi State vs #6 AuburnFox Sports South Quarterfinals - Friday, March 4351:00 pm#8 Florida vs. #1 TennesseeFox Sports South7,46163:30 pm#7 LSU vs. #2 KentuckyFox Sports South477:30 pm#5 South Carolina vs. #4 GeorgiaFox Sports South5,976810:00 pm#11 Mississippi State vs. #3 VanderbiltFox Sports South Semifinals - Saturday, March 5594:00 pm#1 Tennessee vs #4 GeorgiaESPNU10,207106:30 pm#2 Kentucky vs. #3 VanderbiltESPNU Championship Game - Sunday, March 66115:30 pm#1 Tennessee vs #2 KentuckyESPN211,150 *Game Times in ET. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.
2011 SEC tournament
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