The 2023 Big West Conference Women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Big West Conference of the 2022–23 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. It was held March 7–11, 2023, at the Dollar Loan Center in Henderson, Nevada. Hawai'i won the tournament, their fourth title, and received the conference's automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA tournament." bigwest.org. Retrieved 2023-02-28. The women's championship was broadcast exclusively on ESPN's over-the-top service, ESPN+.
Seeds Of the 11 conference teams, 10 are eligible for the tournament. UC San Diego is ineligible for the tournament, as it is in the third year of the four-year transition required for teams transferring to Division I from Division II. Teams are seeded based on their performance within the conference, and teams with identical conference records are seeded using a tiebreaker system. Unlike previous years, reseeding teams after the quarterfinals will not take place for the 2023 tournament.
SeedSchoolRecordTiebreaker1UC Irvine16-22Long Beach State17-33Hawai'i13-74UC Davis12-75UC Santa Barbara12-86Cal State Fullerton9-117Cal Poly7-128Cal State Northridge6-149Cal State Bakersfield3-172-0 vs. UC Riverside10UC Riverside3-170-2 vs. Cal State Bakersfield
Schedule and results GameTime " bigwest.org. Retrieved 2023-02-28.MatchupScoreTelevision First round – Tuesday, March 7112:00 pm No. 8 Cal State Northridge vs. No. 9 Cal State Bakersfield 52-55ESPN+22:30 pm No. 7 Cal Poly vs. No. 10 UC Riverside54-63 Quarterfinals – Wednesday, March 8312:00 pm No. 1 UC Irvine vs No. 9 Cal State Bakersfield59-612OTESPN+42:30 pm No. 4 UC Davis vs. No. 5 UC Santa Barbara36-7056:00 pm No. 2 Long Beach State vs No. 10 UC Riverside55-4968:30 pmNo. 3 Hawai'i vs. No. 6 Cal State Fullerton82-752OT Semifinals – Friday, March 10712:00 pmNo. 9 Cal State Bakersfield vs No. 5 UC Santa Barbara66-75ESPN+82:30 pmNo. 2 Long Beach State vs No. 3 Hawai'i62-67 Final – Saturday, March 1193:00 pmNo. 5 UC Santa Barbara vs No. 3 Hawai'i59-61ESPN+ *Game times in PST. Rankings denote tournament seed
Bracket
Note: * denotes overtime
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