2023 WBBT Bracket
NEW YORK – The bracket for the 2023 BIG EAST Women’s Basketball Tournament was solidified on Monday night, the final day of the regular season. Entering the evening, just two seeds remained undetermined, with St. John’s 53-50 win at Providence locking up the No. 4 seed for the Red Storm and pushing Marquette, which defeated DePaul 98-80 to tie St. John’s in the standings, into the No. 5 spot. The BIG EAST Tournament is set for March 3-6 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. The winner of the conference tournament receives the league’s automatic bid into the 2023 NCAA Tournament.
Ninth-ranked UConn (26-5, 18-2 BIG EAST), which clinched a share of the regular-season title on Saturday at DePaul, claimed the crown outright tonight with a 60-51 win over Xavier. The regular-season championship is UConn’s 22nd overall and third straight since returning to the BIG EAST prior to the 2020-21 season. They are also the BIG EAST Tournament No. 1 seed for the third straight year.
There were two ties in the final regular-season standings – Marquette and St. John’s tied for fourth at 13-7 while Butler and Georgetown knotted in eighth at 6-14. SJU and MU split their regular-season series, with the next tiebreaker being results against the team in the highest position in the standings, then proceeding down the standings until an advantage is determined. MU and SJU both went 1-1 against UConn and 0-2 against Villanova; St. John’s went 1-1 against third-place Creighton while Marquette went 0-2 to give the Red Storm the edge. Butler swept Georgetown to win that tiebreaker.
BIG EAST Tournament play begins Friday, March 3 at 11 a.m. ET when No. 9 seed Georgetown (13-16, 6-14) faces No. 8 seed Butler (11-18, 6-14) in the First Round. At 1:30 p.m., No. 10 seed Providence (13-18, 4-16) squares off with No. 7 seed DePaul (15-16, 8-12), before the 4 p.m. game sees No. 11 seed Xavier (7-22, 0-20) against No. 6 seed Seton Hall (17-13, 10-10). All three First Round games will air live on SNY and will also stream on the FOX Sports App and FloHoops.
Quarterfinal play is set for Saturday, March 4, beginning at noon ET when top-seeded UConn faces the winner of the Georgetown-Butler First Round game. That game will air on FS1. FS2 takes over coverage for the remaining Quarterfinal tilts, beginning at 2:30 p.m. when Marquette (20-9) and St. John’s (22-7) square off. The evening session begins at 7 p.m. on FS2 when No. 2 seed Villanova (26-5, 17-3) faces the winner of the Providence-DePaul First Round tilt, before action wraps up at 9:30 p.m. when No. 3 seed Creighton (21-7, 15-5) tips off against the Xavier-Seton Hall winner.
FS1 will air the final three games of the BIG EAST Tournament, beginning with the Semifinals on Sunday, March 5. Saturday’s afternoon session winners will meet at 3 p.m., followed by the evening session winners at 5:30 p.m. A champion will be crowned on Monday, March 6 with semifinal winners meeting at 7 p.m. on FS1.
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2023 BIG EAST Women’s Basketball Tournament
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Mohegan Sun Arena – Uncasville, Conn.
March 3 – First Round
Game 1: 9 seed Georgetown vs. 8 seed Butler, 11 a.m. (SNY)
Game 2: 10 seed Providence vs. 7 seed DePaul, 1:30 p.m. (SNY)
Game 3: 11 seed Xavier vs. 6 seed Seton Hall, 4 p.m. (SNY)
March 4 – Quarterfinals
Game 4: Game 1 winner vs. 1 seed UConn, Noon (FS1)
Game 5: No. 5 seed Marquette vs. No. 4 seed St. John’s, 2:30 p.m. (FS2)
Game 6: Game 2 winner vs. 2 seed Villanova, 7 p.m. (FS2)
Game 7: Game 3 winner vs. 3 seed Creighton, 9:30 p.m. (FS2)
March 5 – Semifinals
Game 8: Game 4 winner vs. Game 5 winner, 3 p.m. (FS1)
Game 9: Game 6 winner vs. Game 7 winner, 5:30 p.m. (FS1)
March 6 - Final
Game 10: Game 8 winner vs Game 9 winner, 7 p.m. (FS1)
All times Eastern