The Missouri Valley Conference women's basketball tournament, currently promoted as Hoops in the Heartland, is an annual

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which features the women's basketball teams of each of the

Missouri Valley Conference The Missouri Valley Conference (also called MVC or simply "The Valley") is the third-oldest collegiate athletic conference in the United States. The conference's members are primarily located in the midwest. History The MVC was established ...

member universities. The tournament determines which MVC team receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament. First held at the end of the 1982–83 basketball season, the tournament was originally conducted by the

Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference The Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference was a women's-only college athletic conference which operated in the midwestern United States from its inception in 1982 to its absorption by the Missouri Valley Conference in 1992. History The Gateway Co ...

, a women's sports conference formed in that school year by six MVC members plus four members of what is now known as the

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. In 1985, the Gateway took on football as its only men's sport. Following the 1991–92 school year, the MVC absorbed the women's side of the Gateway (which by that time had eight MVC members) and spun off its football side into what is now the

Missouri Valley Football Conference The Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC), formerly the Gateway Football Conference, is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I Football Championship Subdivis ...

. The MVC maintains all historic records of Gateway women's sports.

Tournament champions by year

Tournament championships by school

*^†Former member of the MVC

References

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Tournament champions by year

Tournament championships by school

See also

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