The Big West Conference Women's Basketball Tournament is the conference championship tournament in basketball

Basketball

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 for the Big West Conference

Big West Conference

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. It is a single-elimination tournament

Single-elimination tournament

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 and seeding is based on regular season records. The winner, declared conference champion, receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

The NCAA Women's Division I Championship is an annual college basketball tournament for women. Held each April, the Women's Championship was inaugurated in the 1981–82 season...

. The women's tournament has been played every year since 1983.



The Anaheim Convention Center Arena has hosted the Big West tournament, both for the women as well as the men, for ten years running, as of 2010.

Tournament Champions

Year	Champion	Score	Runner-Up	Tournament Site
1984	UNLV	90-55	UC-Irvine UC Irvine Anteaters UC Irvine's Athletics program participates in the NCAA's Division I, as members of the Big West Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation...	UNLV¹
1985	UNLV	61-60	UC-Irvine	UC-Irvine
1986	UNLV	99-89	Long Beach State	L.A. Forum, first round at LBS
1987	Long Beach State	98-57	UNLV	L.A. Forum
1988	Long Beach State	79-58	UNLV	L.A. Forum
1989	Long Beach State	89-81	UNLV	Long Beach Arena, opening qualifying game at LBS
1990	UNLV	67-64	Long Beach State	Long Beach Arena
1991	Long Beach State	71-60	Cal State Fullerton	Long Beach Arena
1992	UCSB	68-60	Long Beach State	Long Beach Arena
1993	UCSB	80-77	Hawai'i	Long Beach Arena
1994	UNLV	78-60	Hawai'i	Thomas & Mack Center Thomas & Mack Center The Thomas & Mack Center is an arena, located on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. For ring events, the capacity is 19,522, for basketball, the capacity is 18,776.-History:...
1995	UC Irvine	65-53	Pacific	Thomas & Mack Center Thomas & Mack Center The Thomas & Mack Center is an arena, located on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. For ring events, the capacity is 19,522, for basketball, the capacity is 18,776.-History:...
1996	Hawai'i	68-64	Pacific	Lawlor Events Center Lawlor Events Center Lawlor Events Center is an 11,784-seat multi-purpose arena in Reno, Nevada, located at the intersection of North Virginia Street and 15th Street on the University of Nevada, Reno campus....
1997	UCSB	81-66	UC Irvine	Lawlor Events Center Lawlor Events Center Lawlor Events Center is an 11,784-seat multi-purpose arena in Reno, Nevada, located at the intersection of North Virginia Street and 15th Street on the University of Nevada, Reno campus....
1998	UCSB	86-69	Boise State	Lawlor Events Center Lawlor Events Center Lawlor Events Center is an 11,784-seat multi-purpose arena in Reno, Nevada, located at the intersection of North Virginia Street and 15th Street on the University of Nevada, Reno campus....
1999	UCSB	94-67	Long Beach State	Lawlor Events Center Lawlor Events Center Lawlor Events Center is an 11,784-seat multi-purpose arena in Reno, Nevada, located at the intersection of North Virginia Street and 15th Street on the University of Nevada, Reno campus....
2000	UCSB	79-69	Long Beach State	Lawlor Events Center Lawlor Events Center Lawlor Events Center is an 11,784-seat multi-purpose arena in Reno, Nevada, located at the intersection of North Virginia Street and 15th Street on the University of Nevada, Reno campus....
2001	UCSB	79-76	Long Beach State	Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim Convention Center The Anaheim Convention Center is a major convention center in Anaheim, California. It is located across from the Disneyland Resort on Katella Avenue. Much of the Anaheim Convention Center has been renovated in recent years with state-of-the-art facilities... , Anaheim, California Anaheim, California Anaheim is a city in Orange County, California. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city population was about 365,463, making it the most populated city in Orange County, the 10th most-populated city in California, and ranked 54th in the United States...
2002	UCSB	64-53	Pacific	Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim Convention Center The Anaheim Convention Center is a major convention center in Anaheim, California. It is located across from the Disneyland Resort on Katella Avenue. Much of the Anaheim Convention Center has been renovated in recent years with state-of-the-art facilities...
2003	UCSB	68-50	Pacific	Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim Convention Center The Anaheim Convention Center is a major convention center in Anaheim, California. It is located across from the Disneyland Resort on Katella Avenue. Much of the Anaheim Convention Center has been renovated in recent years with state-of-the-art facilities...
2004	UCSB	68-51	Idaho	Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim Convention Center The Anaheim Convention Center is a major convention center in Anaheim, California. It is located across from the Disneyland Resort on Katella Avenue. Much of the Anaheim Convention Center has been renovated in recent years with state-of-the-art facilities...
2005	UCSB	74-66	Idaho	Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim Convention Center The Anaheim Convention Center is a major convention center in Anaheim, California. It is located across from the Disneyland Resort on Katella Avenue. Much of the Anaheim Convention Center has been renovated in recent years with state-of-the-art facilities...
2006	UC Riverside	59-58	UCSB	Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim Convention Center The Anaheim Convention Center is a major convention center in Anaheim, California. It is located across from the Disneyland Resort on Katella Avenue. Much of the Anaheim Convention Center has been renovated in recent years with state-of-the-art facilities...
2007	UC Riverside	70-67	UCSB	Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim Convention Center The Anaheim Convention Center is a major convention center in Anaheim, California. It is located across from the Disneyland Resort on Katella Avenue. Much of the Anaheim Convention Center has been renovated in recent years with state-of-the-art facilities...
2008	UCSB	74-59	UC Davis	Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim Convention Center The Anaheim Convention Center is a major convention center in Anaheim, California. It is located across from the Disneyland Resort on Katella Avenue. Much of the Anaheim Convention Center has been renovated in recent years with state-of-the-art facilities...
2009	UCSB	64-57	Cal Poly SLO	Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim Convention Center The Anaheim Convention Center is a major convention center in Anaheim, California. It is located across from the Disneyland Resort on Katella Avenue. Much of the Anaheim Convention Center has been renovated in recent years with state-of-the-art facilities...
2010	UC Riverside	71-67	UC Davis	Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim Convention Center The Anaheim Convention Center is a major convention center in Anaheim, California. It is located across from the Disneyland Resort on Katella Avenue. Much of the Anaheim Convention Center has been renovated in recent years with state-of-the-art facilities...
2011	UC Davis	66-49	Cal Poly	Opening round at Campus sites, semifinals and finals at Honda Center
2012				Opening round at Campus sites, semifinals and finals at Honda Center

¹ 1984 Tournament was played at location of highest remaining seed.

Performance By School

Member	Winners	Winning Years
UCSB	13	1992, 1993, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009
UNLV UNLV Rebels The University of Nevada, Las Vegas' sports teams are called the Rebels. The Rebels participate in NCAA Division I and in the Mountain West Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. The school's colors are Scarlet and Grey. The Rebels' main rival is the Wolf Pack of the University...	5	1984, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1994
Long Beach State Long Beach State 49ers 'An NCAA Division I member, Long Beach State has 18 sports teams and plays competitively in baseball, cross country, softball, track and field, women's tennis, and women's soccer, as well as both men's and women's basketball, volleyball, water polo and golf teams...	4	1987, 1988, 1989, 1991
UC Riverside University of California, Riverside The University of California, Riverside, commonly known as UCR or UC Riverside, is a public research university and one of the ten general campuses of the University of California system. UCR is consistently ranked as one of the most ethnically and economically diverse universities in the United...	3	2006, 2007, 2010
UC Davis UC Davis Aggies The UC Davis Aggies compete in NCAA Division I sports in the Big West Conference. For football, the Aggies compete in Division I FCS , and are members of the Great West Conference, granting UC Davis the distinction of being one of only three UC campuses to field a football team...	1	2011
UC Irvine UC Irvine Anteaters UC Irvine's Athletics program participates in the NCAA's Division I, as members of the Big West Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation...	1	1995
Hawai'i	1	1996

• Teams in bold represent current conference members