2002 SEC women's basketball tournament

American college basketball postseason tournament March 2026 2002 SEC Women's I 12 Gaylord Entertainment Center Nashville, TN Vanderbilt 3rd Jim Foster 3rd Zuzana Klimešová Vanderbilt 41,888 The 2002 Southeastern Conference women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Southeastern Conference (SEC) held at the Gaylord Entertainment Center in Nashville, Tennessee, from February28 – March 3, 2002. The Vanderbilt Commodores won the tournament and earned an automatic bid to the 2002 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.2001-02 Women's Southeastern Conference Season Summary https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/conferences/sec/women/2002.html 2026-03-09 College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com enWomen's Basketball Record Book https://www.secsports.com/media-wbb/womens-basketball-record-book 2026-03-18 Southeastern Conference enKwak Alex 2002-03-15 Commodores beat LSU to win SEC Tournament title https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.34449484?seq=1 The Vanderbilt Hustler 1Williama Angela 2002-03-04 Lady Vols fall just short of win over LSU https://digital.lib.utk.edu/collections/islandora/object/beacon%3A87737#page/12/mode/2up The Daily Beacon 12Shaw Amber 2002-03-04 Lady Dogs knocked from tourney https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/gua1179162/2002-03-04/ed-1/seq-10/ The Red & Black (University of Georgia) 10Ault Kevin 2002-03-04 Lady'Backs' comeback falls short at SEC tournament https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/digital/collection/Traveler/id/2184/rec/28 The Arkansas Traveler 4Tomecek Nick 2002-03-04 Loss in Nashville https://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/xt7rfj29d22c#page/11/mode/1up The Kentucky Kernel B5 Seeds All teams in the conference participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by their conference record. Seed School Conferencerecord Overallrecord Tiebreaker 1Tennessee‡†13–129–5 2South Carolina†10–425–7 3Vanderbilt†10–430–7 4LSU†8–618–12 5Mississippi State8–619–12 6Florida8–618–11 7Arkansas7–720–12 8Alabama7–719–12 9Georgia6–819–11 10Ole Miss3–1111–17 11Auburn3–1116–13 12Kentucky1–139–20‡ – 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 – Thu, Feb 281No. 5 Mississippi State vs. No. 12 Kentucky72–752No. 6 Florida vs. No. 11 Auburn57–703No. 7 Arkansas vs. No. 10 Ole Miss78–604No. 8 Alabama vs. No. 9 Georgia60–64 Quarterfinal – Fri, Mar 15No. 1 Tennessee vs. No. 9 Georgia81–676No. 2 South Carolina vs. No. 7 Arkansas61–797No. 3 Vanderbilt vs. No. 11 Auburn55–398No. 4 LSU vs. No. 12 Kentucky74–62 Semifinal – Sat, Mar 29No. 1 Tennessee vs. No. 4 LSU80–8110No. 3 Vanderbilt vs. No. 7 Arkansas81–78 Championship – Sun, Mar 311No. 4 LSU vs. No. 3 Vanderbilt48–63 # – Rankings denote tournament seed Bracket First roundThu, Feb 28 QuarterfinalsFri, Mar 1 SemifinalsSat, Mar 2 ChampionshipSun, Mar 3 8 Alabama 60 9 Georgia 64 7 Arkansas 78 10 Ole Miss 60 6 Florida 57 11 Auburn 70 5 Mississippi State 72 12 Kentucky 75 2 South Carolina 61 7 Arkansas 79 3 Vanderbilt 55 11 Auburn 39 1 Tennessee 81 9 Georgia 67 4 LSU 74 12 Kentucky 62 3 Vanderbilt 81 7 Arkansas 78 1 Tennessee 80 4 LSU 81 4 LSU 48 3 Vanderbilt 63 References Category:2001–02 Southeastern Conference women's basketball season Category:SEC women's basketball tournament Category:Basketball competitions in Nashville, Tennessee SEC Women's Basketball Category:Women's sports in South Carolina Category:College basketball tournaments in South Carolina SEC women's basketball