2022 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament

2022 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2021–22
Teams	8
Site	Ford Center Evansville, Indiana
Champions	Belmont (6th title)
Winning coach	Bart Brooks (4th title)
MVP	Destinee Wells (Belmont)
Television	ESPN+, ESPNU, ESPN2
Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournaments

2021–22 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Belmont †	16	–	2		.889			23	–	8		.742
Tennessee Tech	14	–	4		.778			21	–	11		.656
Murray State	13	–	5		.722			22	–	10		.688
Austin Peay	11	–	7		.611			20	–	13		.606
Eastern Illinois	11	–	7		.611			16	–	14		.533
UT Martin	9	–	9		.500			12	–	18		.400
SIU Edwardsville	8	–	10		.444			13	–	18		.419
Tennessee State	6	–	12		.333			12	–	19		.387
Southeast Missouri State	2	–	16		.111			6	–	23		.207
Morehead State	0	–	18		.000			1	–	27		.036
† 2022 OVC tournament winner

The 2022 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament was the final event of the 2021–22 NCAA Division I women's basketball season in the Ohio Valley Conference. The tournament was held March 2–5, 2022, at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana.

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. Tiebreakers used were 1) Head-to-head results and 2) comparison of records against individual teams in the conference starting with the top-ranked team and working down.

Seed	School	Conf.	Tiebreaker
1	Belmont	16–2
2	Tennessee Tech	14–4
3	Murray State	13–5
4	Austin Peay	11–7	1–1 vs. Belmont
5	Eastern Illinois	11–7	0–2 vs. Belmont
6	UT Martin	9–9
7	SIU Edwardsville	8–10
8	Tennessee State	6–12

Schedule

Game	Time	Matchup	Score	Television
First round – Wednesday, March 2
1	1:00 pm	No. 5 Eastern Illinois vs. No. 8 Tennessee State	61–72	ESPN+
2	3:30 pm	No. 6 UT Martin vs. No. 7 SIU Edwardsville	84–86
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 3
3	1:00 pm	No. 4 Austin Peay vs. No. 8 Tennessee State	67–53	ESPN+
4	3:30 pm	No. 3 Murray State vs. No. 7 SIU Edwardsville	84–76
Semifinals – Friday, March 4
5	1:00 pm	No. 1 Belmont vs. No. 4 Austin Peay	64–51	ESPN+
6	3:30 pm	No. 2 Tennessee Tech vs. No. 3 Murray State	68–62
Championship – Saturday, March 5
7	2:00 pm	No. 1 Belmont vs. No. 2 Tennessee Tech	51-29	ESPN+
All game times in Central Time.

Bracket

	First round Wednesday, March 2					Quarterfinals Thursday, March 3					Semifinals Friday, March 4					Championship Saturday, March 5
											1	Belmont	64
											4	Austin Peay	51
						4	Austin Peay	67
	5	Eastern Illinois	61			8	Tennessee St.	53
	8	Tennessee St.	72													1	Belmont	51
																2	Tennessee Tech	29
											2	Tennessee Tech	68
											3	Murray State	62
						3	Murray State	84
	6	UT Martin	84			7	SIU Edwardsville	76
	7	SIU Edwardsville	86

* denotes number of overtime periods