2022 Big West Conference women's basketball tournament

The 2022 Big West Conference women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Big West Conference of the 2021–22 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. It was held March 8–12, 2022, at the Dollar Loan Center in Henderson, Nevada. The winner received the conference's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA tournament."Big West Conference Championships" bigwest.org. Retrieved 2022-02-18.

Hawaii won its third title, and its second since rejoining the Big West, for their seventh NCAA Tournament appearance.

Seeds Of the 11 conference teams, 10 are eligible for the tournament. UC San Diego remains ineligible for the Big West tournament, as they are in the second year of the four-year transition required for teams transferring to Division I from Division II, despite their games counting in the standings, unlike their men’s counterparts.

For this year only, teams were seeded by winning percentage within the conference due to unpredictability with COVID-19, with normal additional tiebreakers in place, if necessary. Unlike previous years until 2020, reseeding teams after the quarterfinals does not take place.

SeedSchoolRecordTiebreaker1Hawai'i13–32UC Irvine14-43Long Beach State12-64UC Riverside10-65UC Santa Barbara9-86UC Davis8-87Cal State Fullerton5–122-0 vs. Cal State Northridge8Cal State Northridge5-120-2 vs. Cal State Fullerton9Cal State Bakersfield3-1110Cal Poly2–13

Schedule and results GameTime "Basketball Championships- Big West Conference" bigwest.org. Retrieved 2022-02-18.MatchupScoreTelevision First round – Tuesday, March 8112:00 pm No. 8 CSUN vs. No. 9 CSU Bakersfield62-63*ESPN+22:30 pm No. 7 Cal State Fullerton vs. No. 10 Cal Poly70-64 Quarterfinals – Wednesday, March 9312:00 pm No. 1 Hawai'i vs. No. 9 CSU Bakersfield 48-47ESPN+42:30 pm No. 4 UC Riverside vs. No. 5 UC Santa Barbara46-4256:00 pm No. 2 UC Irvine vs. No. 7 Cal State Fullerton80-6868:30 pm No. 3 Long Beach State vs. No. 6 UC Davis45-55 Semifinals – Friday, March 11712:00 pmNo. 1 Hawai'i vs. No. 4 UC Riverside69-55ESPN+82:30 pmNo. 2 UC Irvine vs. No. 6 UC Davis84-75* Final – Saturday, March 1295:00 pmNo. 1 Hawai'i vs. No. 2 UC Irvine59-48ESPN+ *Game times in PST. Rankings denote tournament seed

Bracket

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