The 2022 Southland Conference women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the 2021–22 season in the Southland Conference. The tournament took place March 10–13, 2022. The tournament winner received an automatic invitation to the 2022 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.
Seeds Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tie-breaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. All eight teams in the conference qualified for the tournament. The top two seeds received double byes into the semifinals in the merit-based format. The No. 3 and No. 4 seeds received single byes to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers used are 1) Head-to-head results, 2) comparison of records against individual teams in the conference starting with the top-ranked team(s) and working down and 3) NCAA NET rankings available on the day following the conclusion of regular-season play. SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker 1 Houston Baptist 12-22 Texas A&M-CC 11-33 Southeastern Louisiana 10–44 McNeese State 8-65 Incarnate Word 5-92-0 vs. Northwestern State6 Northwestern State 5–90-2 vs. Incarnate Word7 New Orleans 3-118 Nicholls 2-12
Schedule SessionGameTime*Matchup#ScoreTelevisionAttendanceFirst round – Thursday, March 10, 20221111:00 amNo. 5 Incarnate Word vs. No. 8 Nicholls74–73ESPN+60121:30 pmNo. 6 Northwestern State vs. No. 7 New Orleans48-57Quarterfinals – Friday, March 11, 20222311:00 amNo. 4 McNeese vs. No. 5 Incarnate Word63-90ESPN+64441:30 pmNo. 3 Southeastern Louisiana vs. No. 7 New Orleans80-66Semifinals – Saturday, March 12, 2022351:00 pmNo. 1 Houston Baptist vs. No. 5 Incarnate Word33-54ESPN+85463:30 pmNo. 2 Texas A&M-CC vs. No. 3 Southeastern Louisiana54-59*Championship – Sunday, March 13, 2022471:00 pmNo. 5 Incarnate Word vs. No. 3 Southeastern Louisiana56–52*CBSSN 744*Game times in CDT. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.
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* denotes number of overtime periods
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