The 2025 Sun Belt Conference women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Sun Belt Conference during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. All tournament games were played at Pensacola Bay Center between March 4–10. The winner, Arkansas State, received their first Sun Belt automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA tournament.
Seeds All 14 conference teams qualified for the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system implemented to seed teams with identical conference records. The conference adopted a unique stepladder system giving the top two teams byes to the tournament semifinals and the No. 3 and No. 4 teams byes to the tournament quarterfinals. The conference changed the tournament format in an effort to reward teams that played well during the regular season. The top 10 teams received at least one bye. SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker 1Tiebreaker 21 James Madison 18–02 Arkansas State 15–33 Troy 13–54 Coastal Carolina 12–65 Old Dominion 9–9 1–1 vs APPST 1–1 vs GAST6 Appalachian State 9–9 1–0 vs ULL 0–2 vs GAST7 Louisiana 9–9 0–1 vs APPST8 Georgia State 8–109 Louisiana–Monroe 7–11 1–1 vs TXST 1–1 vs Troy10 Texas State 7–11 1–1 vs ULM 0–2 vs Troy11 Marshall 6–12 2–0 vs GASO12 Georgia Southern 6–12 0–2 vs Marshall13 Southern Miss 5–1314 South Alabama 2–16
Schedule GameTime MatchupScoreTelevisionFirst round – Tuesday, March 4 111:30 am No. 12 Georgia Southern vs. No. 13 Southern Miss 70–59ESPN+22:00 pm No. 11 Marshall vs. No. 14 South Alabama 73–59Second round – Wednesday, March 5 311:30 amNo. 9 Louisiana–Monroe vs. No. 12 Georgia Southern69–75ESPN+42:00 pmNo. 10 Texas State vs. No. 11 Marshall62–68Third round – Thursday, March 6 511:30 amNo. 8 Georgia State vs. No. 12 Georgia Southern70–64ESPN+62:00 pmNo. 7 Louisiana vs. No. 11 Marshall46–48Fourth round – Friday, March 7711:30 amNo. 5 Old Dominion vs. No. 8 Georgia State62–65ESPN+82:00 pmNo. 6 Appalachian State vs. No. 11 Marshall66–75Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 8 911:30 amNo. 4 Coastal Carolina vs. No. 8 Georgia State77–68ESPN+102:00 pmNo. 3 Troy vs. No. 11 Marshall85–54Semifinals – Sunday, March 9 1111:30 amNo. 1 James Madison vs. No. 4 Coastal Carolina89–65ESPN+122:00 pmNo. 2 Arkansas State vs. No. 3 Troy 81–66Championship – Monday, March 10 131:00 pmNo. 1 James Madison vs. No. 2 Arkansas State 79–86OTESPN2Game times in CST through the quarterfinals and CDT for the semifinals and championship. Rankings denote tournament seed.
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See also 2025 Sun Belt Conference men's basketball tournament
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