The Mountain East Conference women's basketball tournament is the annual conference women's
basketball
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championship tournament for the
Mountain East Conference
The Mountain East Conference (MEC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level and officially began competition on September 1, 2013. It consists of 11 schools, m ...
. The tournament has been held annually since the MEC's establishment in 2013, with the first tournament taking place in 2014. It is a
single-elimination tournament
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and seeding is based on regular season records.
From 2014 to 2018, the tournament was hosted by the
Charleston Civic Center
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in
Charleston, West Virginia
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. Following several years of low attendance, the league announce it would move the event to the
Wheeling Civic Center in
Wheeling.
The winner receives the MEC's automatic bid to the
NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament
The NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament (officially styled as "Championship" instead of "Tournament") is an annual tournament to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II women's college basketball nati ...
.
Results
Championship records
*
Concord (WV),
Davis & Elkins,
Frostburg State,
Point Park, and
West Virginia Wesleyan have yet to reach a tournament final.
*
Alderson Broaddus,
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,
Urbana, and
UVA Wise never qualified for the tournament finals as MEC members.
* Schools highlighted in pink are former members of the MEC.
See also
*
Mountain East Conference men's basketball tournament
References
{{NCAA women's college basketball tournament navbox
NCAA Division II women's basketball conference tournaments
Tournament, Women's
Recurring sporting events established in 2014