The 2025 Big West Conference women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Big West Conference of the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. It was held March 12–15, 2025, at the Lee's Family Forum in Henderson, Nevada. The winner received the conference's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA tournament.
UC San Diego defeated UC Davis in the championship game 75–66, their first Big West championship since joining the conference in 2020. They advanced to the NCAA Division I tournament in their first year of eligibility, completing their four-year transition to Division I sports.
Seeds In this format, the top two seeds receive automatic berths in the semifinals, the following two seeds are placed in the quarterfinals, and the remaining four seeds play each other in the first round. Big West commissioner Dan Butterly stated that the decision was made to improve the regular season champions odds of winning the tournament and thus receiving the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
Of the 11 conference teams, all 11 are eligible for tournament spots. UC San Diego is eligible for the first time, as it is the first year after their 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.
As has been the case since 2020, reseeding teams do not occur at any point. SeedSchoolRecordTiebreaker1Hawai'i16–42UC Irvine15–53UC Davis13–70–2 vs. UC Irvine, 1–1 vs. Hawai'i4UC San Diego13–70–2 vs. UC Irvine, 0–2 vs. Hawai'i5UC Santa Barbara12–81–1 vs. UCSD6Long Beach State12–80–2 vs. UCSD, 2–0 vs. UCR7UC Riverside12–80–2 vs. UCSD, 0–2 vs. LBSU8Cal Poly8–12Cal State Fullerton5–15Cal State Bakersfield2–181–1 vs. CSUN, 1–1 vs. UCRCal State Northridge2–181–1 vs. CSUB, 0–2 vs. UCR
Schedule and results GameTimeMatchupScoreTelevisionFirst round – Wednesday, March 121NoonNo. 5 UC Santa Barbara vs. No. 8 Cal Poly54–56ESPN+22:30 p.m.No. 6 Long Beach State vs. No. 7 UC Riverside40–54Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 133NoonNo. 4 UC San Diego vs. No. 8 Cal Poly59–54ESPN+42:30 p.m.No. 3 UC Davis vs. No. 7 UC Riverside61–50Semifinals – Friday, March 145NoonNo. 1 Hawai'i vs. No. 4 UC San Diego49–51ESPN+62:30 p.m.No. 2 UC Irvine vs. No. 3 UC Davis56–63Final – Saturday, March 1573:00 p.m.No. 4 UC San Diego vs. No. 3 UC Davis75–66ESPN+*Game times in PDT. Rankings denote tournament seed.
Bracket
See also 2025 Big West Conference men's basketball tournament
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