Atlantic 10 Women's Basketball Tournament

Atlantic 10 Women's Basketball Tournament
Conference Basketball Championship
Sport	Basketball
Conference	Atlantic 10 Conference
Number of teams	14
Format	Single-elimination tournament
Current stadium	Richmond Coliseum
Current location	Richmond, Virginia
Played	1983–present
Last contest	2016
Current champion	Dayton
Most championships	George Washington Colonials, Xavier Musketeers, Penn State Lady Lions (6)
Official website	Atlantic 10 Women's Basketball

The Atlantic 10 Women's Basketball Tournament is the conference championship tournament in women's basketball for the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10). It is a single-elimination tournament involving all of the 14 league schools, and seeding is based on regular-season records with head-to-head match-up as a tie-breaker. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA women's basketball tournament.

The top eight teams in the conference receive byes in the first round, while #12 plays #13 and #11 plays #14. The top four teams receive byes in the second round, while #5 plays the winner of #12/#13, #6 plays the winner of #11/#14, #7 plays #10, and #8 plays #9. The winners of the second-round games move on to face one of the top four seeds in the format of a normal eight-team bracket: #1 vs. #8 or #9; #2 vs. #7 or #10; #3 vs #6, #11 or #14; and #4 vs #5, #12 or #13.

The tournament has been held since 1983.

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