1986 SEC women's basketball tournament

1986 SEC women's basketball tournament
1986 SEC women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Teams	10
Site	Georgia Coliseum; Athens, GA
Champions	Georgia (3rd title)
Winning coach	Andy Landers (3rd title)
MVP	Katrina McClain (Georgia)
Attendance	9,418
	SEC women's basketball tournaments ← 1985 1987 →

ClassificationDivision I

Teams10

ChampionsGeorgia (3rd title)

The 1986 Southeastern Conference women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Southeastern Conference (SEC) held at the Georgia Coliseum in Athens, GA, from Feb 28 – March 3, 1986. The Georgia Lady Bulldogs won the tournament and earned an automatic bid to the 1986 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.^[1]^[2]

Seed	School	Conf. Record	Overall record
1	Georgia^‡†	9–0	30–2
2	Auburn^†	6–3	24–6
3	LSU^†	6–3	27–6
4	Ole Miss^†	6–3	24–8
5	Tennessee^†	5–4	24–10
6	Kentucky^†	4–5	18–11
7	Vanderbilt	4–5	22–9
8	Alabama	3–6	20–9
9	Florida	2–7	10–18
10	Mississippi State	0–9	8–20
‡ – 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.

Game	Matchup^#	Score
First Round – Fri, Feb 28
1	No. 7 Vanderbilt vs. No. 10 Mississippi State	83–69
2	No. 8 Alabama vs. No. 9 Florida	71–57
Quarterfinals – Sat, Mar 1
3	No. 1 Georgia vs. No. 8 Alabama	88–71
5	No. 2 Auburn vs. No. 7 Vanderbilt	79–89
4	No. 3 LSU vs. No. 6 Kentucky	67–66
6	No. 4 Ole Miss vs. No. 5 Tennessee	83–78
Semifinals – Sun, Mar 2
7	No. 1 Georgia vs. No. 4 Ole Miss	76–68
8	No. 7 Vanderbilt vs. No. 3 LSU	60–83
Finals – Mon, Mar 3
9	No. 1 Georgia vs. No. 3 LSU	94–72
# – Rankings denote tournament seed

Schedule