The 1997 Southeastern Conference women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Southeastern Conference (SEC) held at the McKenzie Arena in Chattanooga, Tennessee, from February28 – March3, 1997. The Auburn Tigers won the tournament and earned an automatic bid to the 1997 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. Seeds All teams in the conference participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by their conference record. Seed School Conferencerecord Overallrecord Tiebreaker 1Georgia‡†11–125–6 2Alabama†10–225–7 3Florida†9–324–9 4LSU†9–325–5 5Tennessee8–429–10 6Vanderbilt6–620–11 7Arkansas5–718–10 8Auburn5–722–10 9Ole Miss5–716–11 10Kentucky2–108–19 11Mississippi State1–1111–16 12South Carolina1–1112–15‡ – 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 – Fri, Feb 28172–64275–48371–60470–42 Quarterfinal – Sat, Mar 1547–75699–100785–63868–54 Semifinal – Sun, Mar 2961–591073–83 Championship – Mon, Mar 31152–47 # – Rankings denote tournament seed Bracket

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