SEC Women’s Basketball The Nation’s Premier Women’s Basketball Conference With NINE na onal championships, 12 runner-up fi nishes, a • The SEC is one of a handful of leagues to have won three na on- na on-leading 38 Final Four appearances and 144 fi rst-team al tournament tles with nine NCAA, two WNIT and four NWIT. All-America honors, the SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE stands Along with the nine NCAA championships; Arkansas (1999) and fi rmly as the na on’s premier intercollegiate women’s basketball Auburn (2003) captured the current Women’s NIT tles. But the conference. fi rst-ever SEC na onal tle belongs to Georgia, winners of the 1981 NWIT which predates the current WNIT tournament. Van- SEC BY THE NUMBERS derbilt (1984), LSU (1985) and Kentucky (1990) also won NWIT tles. As members of their previous conferences Arkansas (1987), • The SEC has posted impressive non-conference records in the South Carolina (1979) and Texas A&M (1995) won the WNIT, while last decade. The SEC compiled a 131-45 (.744) non-conference re- Texas A&M (2011) won the NCAA tle prior to joining the SEC. cord during the 2019-20 season. • The SEC led the na on in women’s basketball a endance for the • Since the 1990 season, the SEC has compiled a 4352-1321 (.744) sixth consecu ve season in 2020. A total of 924,471 fans passed record against other conferences. The league has recorded 150+ through its turns les during home games and conference tour- wins during 13 seasons and has never recorded a non-conference nament ac on. The SEC has had over a million fans in a season a winning percentage below .703. total of four mes. The SEC and the Big 12 Conference remain the only two conferences to host more than 1 million fans during the • SEC teams have earned appearances in 28 of 38 NCAA Final course of a season. Fours, an accomplishment unmatched by any other league. The next closest is the Big East and ACC with 22 each. INDIVIDUAL HONORS • Overall, SEC squads have fi lled 38 of the 152 Final Four berths, • The SEC has had 70 student-athletes named as a First-Team including having two Final Four teams in 1988 (Auburn, Tennes- All-America selec on. Those 70 have been named a total of 119 see), 1989 (Auburn, Tennessee), 1995 (Georgia, Tennessee), 1996 mes since the 1982-83 season (fi rst year of SEC sponsorship). (Georgia, Tennessee), 1998 (Arkansas, Tennessee), 2004 (LSU, Tennessee), 2005 (LSU, Tennessee), 2007 (LSU, Tennessee), 2008 • All-Americans were fi rst named in women’s basketball in 1975. (LSU, Tennessee), 2017 (Mississippi State, South Carolina). Since that me, league schools have had 79 players named fi rst- team a total of 144 mes. • SEC teams have made 21 appearances in a na on-high 18 NCAA Championship games, winning nine NCAA Championships (Ten- • The SEC has had at least one student-athlete named as a First- nessee: 1987, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2007, 2008); South Team All-America selec on in each of the last 11 seasons. Carolina (2017). • The league has had seven Honda Sports Awards winners in • The league also had the dis nc on of providing both na onal Katrina McClain, Georgia (1987); Bridge e Gordon, Tennessee fi nalists three mes in its history in 1996 (Tennessee 83, Georgia (1989); Chamique Holdsclaw, Tennessee (1997 and 1998); Can- 65); 1989 (Tennessee 76, Auburn 60); 2017 (South Carolina 67, dace Parker, Tennessee (2007 and 2008) and A’ja Wilson, South Mississippi State 55). Carolina (2018). • SEC teams have won 431 NCAA Tournament games against 229 • Tennessee’s Chamique Holdsclaw was named the winner of the losses (.653) for an average of 11.3 NCAA wins per year. Honda-Broderick Cup, as the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year, in 1998. • In addi on, all 14 current members have appeared in the NCAA Tournament. • Eight Naismith Player of the Year winners have come from the SEC. They include Saudia Roundtree, Georgia (1996), Chamique • The SEC has led or shared the pack in NCAA tournament bids 25 Holdsclaw, Tennessee (1998 and 1999), Tamika Catchings, Ten- mes in its 38-year history. nessee (2000), Seimone Augustus, LSU (2005 and 2006), Candace Parker, Tennessee (2008) and A’ja Wilson, South Carolina (2018). • The Southeastern Conference had nine teams earn bids to the 2016 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship. This • SEC teams have provided 161 All-Region performers, including was the most SEC teams to receive bids to the NCAA tournament 34 Most Outstanding Players. in conference history and the second me in NCAA history that one conference has sent nine teams to the tournament. The Big • There have been 44 Final Four All-Tournament Team members East did so in 2011. from SEC schools. • Un l 2004, the SEC was the only conference to ever have eight • In 1996, the en re all-tournament team was made up of teams receive NCAA bids. The league has achieved this feat fi ve SEC players. mes, in 1999, 2002, 2012, 2014 and 2017. • Nine NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship winners and 31 Academic • The SEC was also the fi rst league to ever have seven teams in- All-Americans hail from the SEC. vited to the NCAA Tournament and earned this honor a leading 12 mes (1986, 1991, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019). SEC Women’s Basketball The Nation’s Premier Women’s Basketball Conference SEC IN THE WNBA DOMINANCE IN THE POLLS • The Southeastern Conference had 22 former student-athletes • Since the SEC began to sponsor women’s basketball in 1982, it make 2020 WNBA opening day rosters. has failed only three mes to place at least four members in each of the fi nal polls (the USA Today/ESPN poll began in 1986). • Overall, the SEC has had 150 former players go on to play in the league. • Last season, the SEC had fi ve in the fi nal Associated Press poll and the fi nal USA Today/WBCA poll. • In this year’s WNBA dra , a total of three SEC women’s basket- ball players were taken. • Only six teams have been ranked in every AP Poll for the last four seasons (2016-17 through 2019-20). Two of them are SEC teams; • Since the inaugural WNBA dra in 1997, the SEC has had 163 no other league has mul ple entries. former players dra ed for the professional league, including six No. 1 picks. • Twice during the 2016 season the SEC had seven teams ranked in the AP poll. It’s the most teams ranked for the league since the • The SEC has had a fi rst round pick every year except one (2014). week of Dec. 1 in the 2014-15 season. • Over the last 11 WNBA Dra s, 59 SEC players have heard their • The SEC is responsible for 81 of the 112 instances where a con- names called, with 22 of those being selected in the fi rst round ference had at least 7 teams ranked in the AP poll. There have also and six as the No. 1 overall pick. been 10 weeks where a conference had 8 teams ranked with nine of those 10 being the SEC. • Three of the last four WNBA Tournament MVPs hail from the SEC (Sylvia Fowles: 2015, 2017; Candace Parker: 2016). • In terms of rankings, the SEC has the richest history of any con- ference in the na on, boas ng more poll appearances than any SEC IN USA BASKETBALL other. • SEC schools have produced 42 Olympians since 1976, with 38 • Since the 1982 season, SEC teams have been ranked 713 consec- coming since the SEC began sponsoring women’s basketball. u ve weeks in the AP poll. • Since, 1982, league teams have been ranked in the AP poll 3,556 • 1976 - Cindy Brogdon, Tennessee; Patricia Roberts, Tennessee mes, including 1,691 Top 10 appearances and 865 Top 5 appear- • 1980 - Jill Rankin, Tennessee; Holly Warlick, Tennessee ances. • 1984 - Teresa Edwards, Georgia; Lea Henry, Tennessee; Cindy Noble, Tennessee • Overall, the league teams have been ranked 789 consecu ve • 1988 - Teresa Edwards, Georgia; Katrina McClain, Georgia; weeks, with teams ranked a total of 4,059 mes. The SEC has Jennifer Gillom, Ole Miss; Bridge e Gordon, Tennessee 1,761 Top 10 appearances and 916 Top Five appearances overall. • 1992 - Carolyn Jones, Auburn; Vickie Orr, Auburn; Tammy Jackson, Florida; Teresa Edwards, Georgia; • SEC teams can also boost of 158 No. 1 rankings in the AP Poll. Katrina McClain, Georgia; Daedra Charles, Tennessee • 1996 - Ruthie Bolton, Auburn; Teresa Edwards, Georgia; • The league has had the top three teams in the AP Poll twice. In Katrina McClain, Georgia; Nikki McCray, Tennessee, week three in 2005 and in week eight in 1989. Carla McGhee, Tennessee • 2000 - Ruthie Bolton-Holifi eld, Auburn; Teresa Edwards, Georgia; Chamique Holdsclaw, Tennessee; Nikki McCray, Tennessee; DeLisha Milton, Florida • 2004 - Tamika Catchings, Tennessee; Shannon Johnson, South Carolina • 2008 - Seimone Augustus, LSU; Tamika Catchings, Tennessee; Sylvia Fowles, LSU; ; Kara Lawson, Tennessee; DeLisha Milton-Jones, Florida; Candace Parker, Tennessee • 2012 - Seimone Augustus, LSU; Tamika Catchings, Tennessee; Sylvia Fowles, LSU; Candace Parker, Tennessee • 2016 - Seimone Augustus, LSU; Tamika Catchings, Tennessee; Sylvia Fowles, LSU.