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2010 SEC women's basketball tournament
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The 2010 SEC women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Southeastern Conference (SEC) for the 2009–10 NCAA Division I women's basketball season and held at the Arena at Gwinnett Center in the Atlanta suburb of Duluth, Georgia from March4 – 7, 2010. The winner of the tournament earned the SEC's automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA tournament. The first round and quarterfinals were televised by Fox Sports South, the semifinals were aired by ESPNU, and the final aired on ESPN2.
The regular-season champion, Tennessee, won the tournament and secured a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/recap?gameId=300662633 https://web.archive.org/web/20100310223010/http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/recap?gameId=300662633 dead March 10, 2010 Lady Vols wrap up SEC championship; Summitt follows with a song Associated Press ESPN.com 2010-03-07 2010-03-07Lambert Michael 2010-03-10 Women's basketball: Lady Tigers improve play for NCAA tournament https://lsureveille.com/197821/sports/womens-basketball-lady-tigers-improve-play-for-ncaa-tournament/,%20https://lsureveille.com/197821/sports/womens-basketball-lady-tigers-improve-play-for-ncaa-tournament/ 2026-05-16 LSU Reveille
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 byes.
Seed School Conferencerecord Overallrecord Tiebreaker 1Tennessee‡†15–132–3 2Kentucky†11–528–8 3Mississippi State†9–721–13 4LSU†9–721–10 5Vanderbilt9–723–11 6Georgia9–725–9 7Florida7–915–17 8South Carolina7–914–15 9Ole Miss7–917–15 10Auburn5–1115–16‡ – SEC regular season champions, and tournament No. 1 seed.† – Received a bye in the conference tournament.Overall records include all games played in the SEC Tournament.
Schedule
SessionGameTime*Matchup#TelevisionAttendance First round - Thursday, March 41112 noon#9 Ole Miss vs. #8 South CarolinaFox Sports South2,38522:30 pm#10 Auburn vs. #7 FloridaFox Sports South236:30 pm#12 Arkansas vs. #5 VanderbiltFox Sports South3,68249:00 pm#11 Alabama vs #6 GeorgiaFox Sports South Quarterfinals - Friday, March 53512 noon#9 Ole Miss vs. #1 TennesseeFox Sports South5,01262:30 pm#10 Auburn vs. #2 KentuckyFox Sports South476:30 pm#5 Vanderbilt vs. #4 LSUFox Sports South4,81389:00 pm#6 Georgia vs. #3 Mississippi StateFox Sports South Semifinals - Saturday, March 6593:30 pm#1 Tennessee vs. #5 VanderbiltESPNU6,148106:00 pm#2 Kentucky vs. #3 Mississippi StateESPNU Championship Game - Sunday, March 76116:30 pm#1 Tennessee vs. #2 KentuckyESPN25,854 *Game Times in ET. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.
2010 SEC tournament
First roundMarch 4FSN Second roundMarch 5 FSN SemifinalsMarch 6ESPNU SEC Championship GameMarch 7ESPN2
9
Ole Miss
64
8
South Carolina
63
12
Arkansas
64
5
Vanderbilt
65
11
Alabama
66
6
Georgia
73
10
Auburn
74
7
Florida
61
9
Ole Miss
51
1
Tennessee
76
5
Vanderbilt
63
4
LSU
61
6
Georgia
52
3
Mississippi State
67
10
Auburn
54
2
Kentucky
65
1
Tennessee
68
5
Vanderbilt
49
3
Mississippi State
65
2
Kentucky
76
1
Tennessee
70
2
Kentucky
62
References
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