2026 Big South Conference women's basketball tournament
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| 2026 Big South Conference women's basketball tournament | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 2025–26 |
| Teams | 9 |
| Site | Freedom Hall Civic Center Johnson City, Tennessee |
| Champions | High Point (3rd title) |
| Winning coach | Chelsea Banbury (3rd title) |
| Television | ESPN+, ESPN2 |
| Conf. | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| High Point † | 13 | – | 3 | .813 | 27 | – | 6 | .818 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radford | 12 | – | 4 | .750 | 23 | – | 13 | .639 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Longwood | 11 | – | 5 | .688 | 21 | – | 10 | .677 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gardner–Webb | 9 | – | 7 | .563 | 12 | – | 19 | .387 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winthrop | 7 | – | 9 | .438 | 15 | – | 17 | .469 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UNC Asheville | 7 | – | 9 | .438 | 12 | – | 18 | .400 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Charleston Southern | 6 | – | 10 | .375 | 8 | – | 22 | .267 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| USC Upstate | 6 | – | 10 | .375 | 12 | – | 20 | .375 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Presbyterian | 1 | – | 15 | .063 | 3 | – | 27 | .100 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 2026 Big South tournament winner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2026 Big South women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament that ended the 2025–26 NCAA Division I women's basketball season of the Big South Conference.[1] It was held from March 4–8, 2026 and played at the Freedom Hall Civic Center in Johnson City, Tennessee.[2][3] As tournament champions, High Point received the conference's automatic bid to the 2026 NCAA tournament.
Defending champions No. 1 High Point defeated No. 2 Radford 71–67 in the championship game, once again claiming the Big South title for the second consecutive year and the third in program history.
All of the conference teams competed in the tournament. The top seven teams received a first-round bye. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
The tiebreakers operate in the following order:
- Head-to-head record.
- Record against the top-ranked conference team not involved in the tie, going down the standings until the tie is broken. For this purpose, teams with the same conference record are considered collectively. If two teams were unbeaten or winless against an opponent but did not play the same number of games against that opponent, the tie is not considered broken.[4]
| Seed | School | Conference | Overall | Tiebreaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | High Point | 13–3 | 25–6 | |
| 2 | Radford | 12–4 | 20–11 | |
| 3 | Longwood | 11–5 | 20–9 | |
| 4 | Gardner–Webb | 9–7 | 12–18 | |
| 5 | Winthrop | 7–9 | 14–18 | 1–1 vs. Longwood |
| 6 | UNC Asheville | 7–9 | 12–17 | 0–2 vs. Longwood |
| 7 | Charleston Southern | 6–10 | 8–21 | 2–0 vs. USC Upstate |
| 8 | USC Upstate | 6–10 | 11–19 | 0–2 vs. Charleston Southern |
| 9 | Presbyterian | 1–15 | 3–26 |