2024 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament

The 2024 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was the final event of the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season in the Ohio Valley Conference. The tournament was held March 6–9, 2024 at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana. Southern Indiana, a team ineligible for the NCAA Tournament due to being in the second year of a four-year transition from NCAA Division II, won the OVC tournament. The conference's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament instead went to Southern Indiana's defeated opponent in the OVC final, UT Martin.

Seeds Only the top eight teams in the conference qualified for the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

If a team that is not eligible for the NCAA Tournament wins the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament, the conference's automatic bid goes to the tournament runner-up. If that team is also not eligible, i.e. two ineligible teams met in the tournament final, the automatic bid goes to the highest seeded tournament-eligible team.

As Southern Indiana was ineligible for the tournament due to its transition, UT Martin will represent the conference. SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker1Southern Indiana17–12Little Rock11–73–1 vs. UT Martin/Eastern Illinois3UT Martin11–72–2 vs. Little Rock/Eastern Illinois4Eastern Illinois11-71–3 vs. Little Rock/UT Martin5Morehead State10–81–0 vs. Little Rock6Tennessee Tech10–80–2 vs. Little Rock7Western Illinois9–98Tennessee State7–11DNQSoutheast Missouri State6–12DNQLindenwood5–13DNQSIU Edwardsville2–16

Schedule GameTimeMatchupScoreTelevisionFirst Round – Wednesday, March 611:00 pmNo. 5 Morehead State vs. No. 8 Tennessee State50–58ESPN+23:30 pmNo. 6 Tennessee Tech vs. No. 7 Western Illinois78–69Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 731:00 pmNo. 4 Eastern Illinois vs. No. 8 Tennessee State60–48ESPN+43:30 pmNo. 3 UT Martin vs. No. 6 Tennessee Tech79–71Semifinals – Friday, March 851:00 pmNo. 1 Southern Indiana vs. No. 4 Eastern Illinois69–54ESPN+63:30 pmNo. 2 Little Rock vs. No. 3 UT Martin48–54Championship – Saturday, March 972:00 pmNo. 1 Southern Indiana vs. No. 3 UT Martin83–51ESPN+All game times in Central Time.

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