The 2018 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball tournament ended the 2017–18 season of Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball.
The tournament was held February 28–March 3 at Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana.
[2] The OVC women's tournament is a traditional single-elimination tournament featuring the top eight teams in the conference regular-season standings.
This differs from the format used in the OVC men's tournament; while that tournament also involves only eight of the league's 12 members, it has a radically different format, consisting of two stepladder brackets that produce the tournament finalists.
There is no reseeding, so if the #8 team were to defeat the #1 seed it would continue in the tournament playing the team which would have faced the #1 seed in the subsequent round (winner of #4 vs.