2003 SEC women's basketball tournament

2003 SEC Women's 12 Alltel Arena North Little Rock, Arkansas LSU 2nd Sue Gunter 2nd Temeka Johnson LSU 43,642 The 2003 Southeastern Conference women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Southeastern Conference (SEC) held at the Verizon Arena (now the Simmons Bank Arena) in North Little Rock, Arkansas, from March6 – 9, 2003. LSU won the tournament by beating Tennessee on March 9, 2003 by the score of 78 to 62 and received the SEC's automatic bid to the 2003 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.https://www.gadsdentimes.com/story/news/2003/03/10/lsu-upsets-vols-to-win-sec-tournament-title/32347127007/ LSU upsets Vols to win SEC tournament title The Gadsden Times Doulgas Pils March 9, 2003 November 20, 2025Women's Basketball Record Book https://www.secsports.com/media-wbb/womens-basketball-record-book 2026-03-18 Southeastern Conference enWilliams Angela 2003-03-10 LSU cruises to SEC title, 78-62 https://digital.lib.utk.edu/collections/islandora/object/beacon%3A83906#page/8/mode/1up The Daily Beacon 8Weitz Ari 2003-03-10 Short-handed Georgia falls to Vandy in SEC tourney https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/gua1179162/2003-03-10/ed-1/seq-8/ The Red & Black (University of Georgia) 8Smith Taylor 2003-03-14 Women fall to Louisiana State in SEC tourney semi-final https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.34448801?seq=6 The Vanderbilt Hustler 62002-03 Women's Southeastern Conference Season Summary https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/conferences/sec/women/2003.html 2026-05-16 College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com en Seeds All teams in the conference participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by their conference record. Seed School Conferencerecord Overallrecord 1Tennessee‡†14–033–5 2LSU†11–330–4 3Georgia†10–421–10 4Mississippi State†10–424–8 5South Carolina9–523–8 6Vanderbilt9–522–10 7Arkansas7–722–11 8Auburn5–923–11 9Kentucky4–1011–16 10Alabama3–1113–15‡ – 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 GameMatchup#Score First Round – Thurs, Mar 61No. 5 South Carolina vs. No. 12 Ole Miss79–642No. 6 Vanderbilt vs. No. 11 Florida74–583No. 7 Arkansas vs. No. 10 Alabama53–484No. 8 Auburn vs. No. 9 Kentucky68–62 Quarterfinal – Fri, Mar 75No. 1 Tennessee vs. No. 8 Auburn66–516No. 2 LSU vs. No. 7 Arkansas78–727No. 3 Georgia vs. No. 6 Vanderbilt70–748No. 4 Mississippi State vs. No. 5 South Carolina79–75 Semifinal – Sat, Mar 89No. 1 Tennessee vs. No. 4 Mississippi State79–7510No. 2 LSU vs. No. 6 Vanderbilt78–69 Championship – Sun, Mar 911No. 1 Tennessee vs. No. 2 LSU62–78 # – Rankings denote tournament seed Bracket First roundThursday, March 6 QuarterfinalsFriday, March 7 SemifinalsSaturday, March 8 Championship gameSunday, March 9 8 Auburn 68 9 Kentucky 62 5 South Carolina 79 12 Ole Miss 64 6 Vanderbilt 74 11 Florida 58 7 Arkansas 53 10 Alabama 48 1 Tennessee 66 8 Auburn 51 4 Mississippi State 79 5 South Carolina 75 3 Georgia 70 6 Vanderbilt 74 2 LSU 78 7 Arkansas 72 1 Tennessee 76 4 Mississippi State 75 2 LSU 78 6 Vanderbilt 69 2 LSU 78 1 Tennessee 62 Asterisk denotes game ended in overtime. All-Tournament team Shameka Christon, Arkansas Temeka Johnson, LSU (MVP) Seimone Augustus, LSU LaToya Thomas, Miss. State Kara Lawson, Tennessee References Category:SEC women's basketball tournament Category:Sports in Little Rock, Arkansas Category:2003 in sports in Arkansas Category:College basketball tournaments in Arkansas Category:Women's sports in Arkansas Category:North Little Rock, Arkansas