Mountain East Conference women's basketball tournament

Mountain East Conference women's basketball tournament
Conference basketball championship
SportBasketball
ConferenceMountain East Conference
Number of teams10
FormatSingle-elimination tournament
Current stadiumWesBanco Arena
Current locationWheeling, WV
Played2014–present
Current championFairmont State (1st)
Most championshipsGlenville State (5)
Official websiteMEC women's basketball
Host stadiums
WesBanco Arena (2019-present)
Charleston Civic Center (2014–2018)
Host locations
Wheeling, WV (2019-present)
Charleston, WV(2014–2018)

The Mountain East Conference women's basketball tournament is the annual conference women'sbasketball championship tournament for the Mountain East Conference. The tournament has been held annually since the MEC's establishment in 2013, with the first tournament taking place in 2014. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records.[1]

From 2014 to 2018, the tournament was hosted by the Charleston Civic Center in Charleston, West Virginia. Following several years of low attendance, the league announce it would move the event to the Wheeling Civic Center in Wheeling.

The winner receives the MEC's automatic bid to the NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament.

  1. ^ "MEC Women's Basketball Tournament History" (PDF). Year-by-year records. Mountain East Conference. 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2021.