The 2024 Big West Conference women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Big West Conference of the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. It was held March 13–16, 2024, at the Dollar Loan Center in Henderson, Nevada. The winner received the conference's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA tournament.

Seeds In June 2023, the Big West Conference board of directors voted to reduce the tournament field from 10 teams to 8 teams. In the new format, the top two seeds receive automatic berths in the semifinals, the next two seeds are placed in the quarterfinals, and the remaining four seeds play each other in the first round. Big West commissioner Dan Butterly stated that the decision was made to improve the regular season champion's odds of winning the tournament and thus receiving the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Of the 11 conference teams, 10 were eligible for tournament spots. UC San Diego is ineligible for the tournament, as it is in the final year of the four-year transition required for teams transferring to Division I from Division II. Teams are seeded based on their performance within the conference, and teams with identical conference records are seeded using a tiebreaker system.

As is the case since 2020, reseeding teams does not occur at any point.

SeedSchoolRecordTiebreaker1Hawai'i17–32UC Irvine16–43UC Riverside13–72–0 vs. Cal Poly, 1–1 vs. UC Davis4Cal Poly13–72–0 vs. UC Davis, 0–2 vs. UC Riverside5UC Davis13–71–1 vs. UC Riverside, 0–2 vs. Cal Poly6UC Santa Barbara10–107Long Beach State8–128Cal State Fullerton6–14DNQCal State Bakersfield5–15DNQCal State Northridge1–19

Schedule and results GameTimeMatchupScoreTelevision First round – Wednesday, March 131Noon No. 5 UC Davis vs. No. 8 Cal State Fullerton 81–56ESPN+22:30 PM No. 6 UC Santa Barbara vs. No. 7 Long Beach State75–90 Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 143Noon No. 3 UC Riverside vs. No. 7 Long Beach State75–83OTESPN+42:30 PM No. 4 Cal Poly vs. No. 5 UC Davis48–56 Semifinals – Friday, March 155Noon No. 1 Hawai'i vs. No.5 UC Davis 48–51ESPN+62:30 PM No. 2 UC Irvine vs. No. 7 Long Beach State 69–57 Final – Saturday, March 1673:00 PMNo. 5 UC Davis vs. No. 2 UC Irvine39-53 ESPN+ *Game times in PDT. Rankings denote tournament seed.

Bracket

Note: * denotes overtime

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