The Big East Women's Basketball Tournament is a conference championship tournament in women's basketball. It was first held in 1983, at the end of the 1982–83 college basketball season that was the first in which the original Big East Conference sponsored women's basketball. The tournament was conducted by the original Big East through 2013. Starting in 2014, after the conference splits along football lines, the tournament will be conducted by a new, non-football conference also known as the Big East Conference. The tournament determines the conference's champion, which receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Since 2004 the tournament has been held in the Veterans Memorial Coliseum at the XL Center (formerly known as the Hartford Civic Center).
Starting in 2009, the tournament expanded to include all 16 of the conference's teams at that time. The teams finishing 9 through 16 in the regular season standings played first round games, while teams 5 through 8 receive a bye to the second round. The top 4 teams during the regular season receive a double-bye to the quarterfinals. The 2013 tournament, the final one under the original Big East structure, saw 15 teams participating, following West Virginia's 2012 move to the Big 12 Conference.
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