The 2021 Northeast Conference women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the 2020–21 season in the

Northeast Conference The Northeast Conference (NEC) is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools are members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Teams in the NEC compete in Division I for all sports; football competes in the Division I Foo ...

. The tournament was held March 10–14, 2021. The tournament winner received an automatic invitation to the

2021 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament The 2021 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 64 teams to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball national champion for the 2020–21 NCAA Divi ...

. Mount St. Mary's won the conference tournament championship game over

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, 70–38.

Seeds

Due to complications caused by the

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, only the top four teams in the Northeast Conference were eligible to compete in the conference tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

Schedule

Bracket

References

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Seeds

Schedule

Bracket

See also

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