2025 Southland Conference women's basketball tournament

2025 Southland Conference women's basketball tournament
2025 Southland Conference women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2024–25
Teams	8
Site	The Legacy Center; Lake Charles, Louisiana
Television	ESPN+, ESPNU
	Southland Conference women's basketball tournaments ← 2024 2026 →

2024–25 Southland Conference women's basketball standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Southeastern Louisiana	12	–	0	1.000	18	–	3	.857
Lamar	9	–	2	.818	14	–	6	.700
Stephen F. Austin	8	–	4	.667	18	–	5	.783
Nicholls	8	–	4	.667	15	–	6	.714
Incarnate Word	8	–	4	.667	13	–	8	.619
Northwestern State	7	–	4	.636	10	–	10	.500
UT Rio Grande Valley	6	–	6	.500	11	–	12	.478
Texas A&M–Corpus Christi	3	–	8	.273	11	–	11	.500
McNeese	3	–	8	.273	8	–	14	.364
New Orleans	2	–	9	.182	2	–	18	.100
Houston Christian	2	–	10	.167	5	–	16	.238
East Texas A&M*	1	–	10	.091	4	–	16	.200
* ineligible for the 2025 NCAA tournament due to transition from Division II

† 2025 Southland tournament winner As of February 1, 2025

The 2025 Southland Conference women's basketball tournament is the postseason women's basketball tournament for the 2024–25 season of the Southland Conference. The tournament is to be held March 10–13, 2025, at The Legacy Center in Lake Charles, Louisiana.^[1]^[2] The tournament winner will receive the conference's automatic invitation to the 2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.

Seeds

Teams will be seeded by record within the conference, with a tie–breaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Eight teams in the conference qualify for the tournament. The top two seeds received double byes into the semifinals in the merit-based format. The No. 3 and No. 4 seeds receive single byes to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers used are 1) Head-to-head results, 2) comparison of records against individual teams in the conference starting with the top-ranked team(s) and working down and 3) NCAA NET rankings available on day following the conclusion of regular-season play.^[3]

Seed	School	Conference
1	TBD
2	TBD	–
3	TBD	–
4	TBD	–
5	TBD	–
6	TBD	–
7	TBD	–
8	TBD	–
DNQ	TBD	–
DNQ	TBD	–
DNQ	TBD	–
DNQ	TBD	–

Schedule

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup^#	Score	Television
First round – Monday, March 10, 2025
1	1	11:00 am	No. 5 seed vs. No. 8 seed	–	ESPN+
1	2	1:30 pm	No. 6 seed vs. No. 7 seed	–	ESPN+
Second round – Tuesday, March 11, 2025
2	3	11:00 am	No. 4 seed vs. Winner game 1	–	ESPN+
2	4	1:30 pm	No. 3 seed vs. Winner game 2	–	ESPN+
Semifinals – Wednesday, March 12, 2025
3	5	10:30 am	No. 1 seed vs. Game 3 Winner	–	ESPN+
3	6	1:30 pm	No. 2 seed vs. Game 4 Winner	–	ESPN+
Championship – Thursday, March 13, 2025
4	7	4:00 pm	Game 5 Winner vs. Game 6 Winner	–	ESPNU
*Game times in CDT. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket


First round Monday, March 11 ESPN+		Second round Tuesday, March 12 ESPN+		Semifinals Tuesday, March 12 ESPN+		Championship Wednesday March 13 ESPNU



				1	No. 1 seed

		4	No. 4 seed

5	No. 5 seed	8	Winner game 1

8	No. 8 seed

				2	No. 2 seed

		3	No. 3 seed

6	No. 6 seed	7	Winner game 2

7	No. 7 seed

* denotes number of overtime periods