2011 Big East women's basketball tournament

2011 Big East women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Teams	16
Site	XL Center Hartford, Connecticut
Champions	Connecticut (17th title)
Winning coach	Geno Auriemma (17th title)
Television	BigEast.tv, ESPN3, ESPNU, ESPN
Big East women's basketball tournaments

2010–11 Big East Conference women's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Connecticut†	16	–	0		1.000			36	–	2		.947
DePaul	13	–	3		.813			29	–	7		.806
Notre Dame	13	–	3		.813			31	–	8		.795
Rutgers	11	–	5		.688			20	–	13		.606
Marquette	10	–	6		.625			24	–	9		.727
Louisville	10	–	6		.625			22	–	13		.629
Syracuse	9	–	7		.563			25	–	10		.714
Georgetown	9	–	7		.563			24	–	11		.686
St. John's	9	–	7		.563			22	–	11		.667
West Virginia	8	–	8		.500			24	–	10		.706
Providence	6	–	10		.375			13	–	16		.448
Pittsburgh	5	–	11		.313			14	–	17		.452
South Florida	3	–	13		.188			12	–	19		.387
Villanova	3	–	13		.188			12	–	19		.387
Cincinnati	2	–	14		.125			9	–	20		.310
Seton Hall	1	–	15		.063			8	–	22		.267
† 2011 Big East Basketball Tournament winner Rankings from AP poll

The 2011 Big East women's basketball tournament took place in March 2011 at the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut. The winner will receive the Big East Conference's automatic bid to the 2011 NCAA tournament. This was the second consecutive year Big East tournament to include all 16 of the conference's teams. The teams finishing 9 through 16 in the regular season standings played first-round games, while teams 5 through 8 received byes to the second round. The top 4 teams during the regular season received double-byes to the quarterfinals.

During the tournament, the top-ranked Connecticut beat Notre Dame 73–64 to win their 17th title.

Final regular season standings

2010–11 Big East Women's Basketball standings
Seed	School	Conf	Overall	Tiebreaker
#1	Connecticut‡	16–0	32–1
#2	DePaul	13–3	26–6
#3	Notre Dame	13-3	26–7
#4	St. John's	12–4	24–5	1–0 vs ND
#5	Notre Dame	12–4	25–4	0–1 vs STJ
#6	Rutgers	9–7	17–13	1–0 vs DPL
#7	DePaul	9–7	20–10	0–1 vs RUT
#8	Providence	7–9	16–13	1–0 vs SYR
#9	Syracuse	7–9	20–9	0–1 vs PROV
#10	Marquette	6–10	15–14	1–0 vs USF
#11	South Florida	6–10	15–14	0–1 vs MARQ
#12	Pittsburgh	5–11	16–13	1–0 vs LOU
#13	Louisville	5–11	13–16	0–1 vs PITT
#14	Cincinnati	4–12	11–17
#15	Villanova	3–13	14–15
#16	Seton Hall	1–15	9–20

‡ Regular season Big East champion

Bracket

	First round Friday, March 4, 2012 Bigeast.tv					Second round Saturday, March 5, 2012 BETV					Quarterfinals Sunday, March 6, 2012 ESPNU					Semifinals Monday, March 7, 2012 ESPNU					Championship Game Tuesday, March 8, 2012 ESPN
						4	Rutgers
							BYE
											4	Rutgers	68
											5	Marquette	62
						5	Marquette	65
						12	Pittsburgh	61
	12	Pittsburgh	63
	13	South Florida	60
																4	Rutgers	51
																1	Connecticut	75
						1	Connecticut
							BYE
											1	Connecticut	59
											8	Georgetown	43
						8	Georgetown	61
						9	Syracuse	60
	9	Syracuse	74
	16	Seton Hall	44
																					1	Connecticut	73
																					3	Notre Dame	64
						2	DePaul
							BYE
											2	DePaul	66
											7	St. John's	54
						7	St. John's	59
						10	West Virginia	51
	10	West Virginia	66
	15	Cincinnati	41
																2	DePaul	67
																3	Notre Dame	71
						3	Notre Dame
							BYE
											3	Notre Dame	63
											6	Louisville	53
						6	Louisville	69
						14	Villanova	47
	11	Providence	50
	14	Villanova	52OT

• ^OT - Denotes Overtime Game