The 2018

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women's basketball tournament (also known as the Hoops in the Heartland Tournament) is part of the

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and was played in

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, March 8–11, 2018, at the

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. The tournament's winner will receive the Missouri Valley Conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA tournament.

Tie-breaking procedures

*1. Winner of head-to-head competition *2. If three or more teams are tied, regular-season competition among the tied teams shall be pooled into a “mini round-robin.” Teams shall be ranked according to their position in such a round-robin. *3. Power rating using MVC games: *4. The most recently available NCAA RPI ranking.

Seeds

Schedule

Tournament bracket

References

External links

Tournament Official WebsiteMissouri Valley Conference Official Website
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Missouri Valley Conference women's basketball tournament The Missouri Valley Conference women's basketball tournament, currently promoted as Hoops in the Heartland, is an annual basketball tournament which features the women's basketball teams of each of the Missouri Valley Conference member universiti ...