The 2002 Southeastern Conference women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Southeastern Conference (SEC) held at the Gaylord Entertainment Center in Nashville, Tennessee, from February28 – March 3, 2002. The Vanderbilt Commodores won the tournament and earned an automatic bid to the 2002 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 1Tennessee‡†13–129–5 2South Carolina†10–425–7 3Vanderbilt†10–430–7 4LSU†8–618–12 5Mississippi State8–619–12 6Florida8–618–11 7Arkansas7–720–12 8Alabama7–719–12 9Georgia6–819–11 10Ole Miss3–1111–17 11Auburn3–1116–13 12Kentucky1–139–20‡ – 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 – Thu, Feb 28172–75257–70378–60460–64 Quarterfinal – Fri, Mar 1581–67661–79755–39874–62 Semifinal – Sat, Mar 2980–811081–78 Championship – Sun, Mar 31148–63 # – Rankings denote tournament seed Bracket
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