| Year: | 2020 |
| Conference: | Southern Conference |
| Division: | I |
| Gender: | Women's |
| Teams: | 8 |
| Arena: | Harrah's Cherokee Center |
| City: | Asheville, North Carolina |
| Champions: | Samford |
| Titlecount: | 3rd |
| Coach: | Carley Kuhns |
| Coachcount: | 1st |
| Television: | Nexstar, ESPN+ |
The 2020 Southern Conference women's basketball tournament was held between March 5–8, 2020, at the Harrah's Cherokee Center in Asheville, North Carolina. Samford won the tournament and received an automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Tournament.[1]
Teams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
| Seed | School | Conf | Overall | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samford | 10-4 | 16-14 | |
| Chattanooga | 10-4 | 11-17 | |
| UNC-Greensboro | 10-4 | 21-8 | |
| 8–6 | 18-11 | ||
| 8-6 | 15-14 | ||
| ETSU | 4-10 | 9-20 | |
| 4-10 | 7-22 | ||
| 2-12 | 5-25 |
All tournament games are streamed on ESPN+. The championship was televised across the region on select Nexstar stations and simulcast on ESPN+.
| Session | Game | Time* | Matchup# | Television | Attendance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 5 | ||||||
| 1 | 1 | 11 AM |
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| 2 | 1:15 PM |
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| 2 | 3 | 3:30 PM |
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| 4 | 5:45 PM |
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| Semifinals – Friday, March 6 | ||||||
| 3 | 5 | 11 AM |
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| 6 | 1:15 PM |
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| Championship Game – Sunday, March 8 | ||||||
| 4 | 7 | Noon |
| Nexstar | ||
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