The 2010 SEC women's basketball tournament was the championship tournament of the

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in the

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. The winner of the tournament earned the SEC's automatic bid to the

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. It was held at the Arena at Gwinnett Center in the

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suburb of

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from March 4 to March 7. The first round and quarterfinals were televised by

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, the semifinals were aired by

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, and the final aired on

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. The regular-season champion,

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, won the tournament and secured a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

Seeds

All SEC schools played in the tournament. Teams were seeded by 2009–10 SEC season record, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Unlike men's basketball play, SEC women's play is not conducted in a divisional format; all 12 teams are organized in a single table. The top four teams in the regular-season standings received

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Schedule

2010 SEC tournament

References

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