2024 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament

2024 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2023–24
Teams	8
Site	Ford Center Evansville, Indiana
Champions	Southern Indiana (1st title)
Winning coach	Rick Stein (1st title)
MVP	Meredith Raley (Southern Indiana)
Television	ESPN+
Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournaments

2023–24 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball standings

	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Southern Indiana* †	17	–	1		.944			25	–	7		.781
Little Rock	11	–	7		.611			12	–	18		.400
UT Martin	11	–	7		.611			16	–	17		.485
Eastern Illinois	11	–	7		.611			15	–	18		.455
Morehead State	10	–	8		.556			15	–	15		.500
Tennessee Tech	10	–	8		.556			16	–	15		.516
Western Illinois	9	–	9		.500			18	–	12		.600
Tennessee State	7	–	11		.389			11	–	19		.367
Southeast Missouri State	6	–	12		.333			9	–	20		.310
Lindenwood*	5	–	13		.278			7	–	21		.250
SIU Edwardsville	2	–	16		.111			5	–	26		.161
† 2024 OVC tournament winner * ineligible for the 2024 NCAA tournament due to transition period

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.

Seed	School	Conference	Tiebreaker
1	Southern Indiana	17–1
2	Little Rock	11–7	3–1 vs. UT Martin/Eastern Illinois
3	UT Martin	11–7	2–2 vs. Little Rock/Eastern Illinois
4	Eastern Illinois	11-7	1–3 vs. Little Rock/UT Martin
5	Morehead State	10–8	1–0 vs. Little Rock
6	Tennessee Tech	10–8	0–2 vs. Little Rock
7	Western Illinois	9–9
8	Tennessee State	7–11
DNQ	Southeast Missouri State	6–12
DNQ	Lindenwood	5–13
DNQ	SIU Edwardsville	2–16

Schedule

Game	Time	Matchup	Score	Television
First Round – Wednesday, March 6
1	1:00 pm	No. 5 Morehead State vs. No. 8 Tennessee State	50–58	ESPN+
2	3:30 pm	No. 6 Tennessee Tech vs. No. 7 Western Illinois	78–69
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 7
3	1:00 pm	No. 4 Eastern Illinois vs. No. 8 Tennessee State	60–48	ESPN+
4	3:30 pm	No. 3 UT Martin vs. No. 6 Tennessee Tech	79–71
Semifinals – Friday, March 8
5	1:00 pm	No. 1 Southern Indiana vs. No. 4 Eastern Illinois	69–54	ESPN+
6	3:30 pm	No. 2 Little Rock vs. No. 3 UT Martin	48–54
Championship – Saturday, March 9
7	2:00 pm	No. 1 Southern Indiana vs. No. 3 UT Martin	83–51	ESPN+
All game times in Central Time.

Bracket

	First Round Wednesday, March 6					Quarterfinals Thursday, March 7					Semifinals Friday, March 8					Championship Saturday, March 9
											1	Southern Indiana	69
						4	Eastern Illinois	60			4	Eastern Illinois	54
	5	Morehead State	50			8	Tennessee State	48								1	Southern Indiana	83
	8	Tennessee State	58													3	UT Martin	51
											2	Little Rock	48
						3	UT Martin	79			3	UT Martin	54
	6	Tennessee Tech	78			6	Tennessee Tech	71
	7	Western Illinois	69