2020 Horizon League women's basketball tournament

The 2020 Horizon League women's basketball tournament is the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Horizon League. It will be held March 3 through March 10, 2020. The winner, IUPUI, earned the conference's automatic berth into the 2020 NCAA women's tournament, but the tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2020 Horizon League women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2019–20
Teams	10
Site	Campus sites (first round) Indiana Farmers Coliseum (semifinals and Finals) Indianapolis, Indiana
Champions	IUPUI (1st title)
Winning coach	Austin Parkinson (1st title)
MVP	Holly Hoopingarner (IUPUI)
Television	ESPN , ESPNU
Horizon League women's basketball tournaments

2019–20 Horizon League women's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
IUPUI†	15	–	3		.833			23	–	8		.742
Wright State	13	–	5		.722			19	–	12		.613
Green Bay	13	–	5		.722			19	–	13		.863
Northern Kentucky	12	–	6		.667			20	–	12		.625
Milwaukee	11	–	7		.611			15	–	16		.484
Cleveland State	9	–	9		.500			21	–	11		.656
Youngstown State	6	–	12		.333			13	–	17		.433
Oakland	6	–	12		.333			11	–	19		.367
Detroit Mercy	3	–	15		.167			3	–	27		.100
UIC	2	–	16		.111			3	–	27		.100
† 2020 Horizon League Tournament winner As of December 19, 2024 Rankings from AP poll

Seeds

All ten teams will participate in the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

Seed	School	Conference record	Overall record	Tiebreaker
1	IUPUI	15–3	21–8
2	Green Bay	13–5	18–11	1–1 vs. IUPUI
3	Wright State	13–5	21–8	0–2 vs. IUPUI
4	Northern Kentucky	12–6	18–11
5	Milwaukee	11–7	14–15
6	Cleveland State	9–9	19–10
7	Youngstown State	6–12	13–16	1–1 vs. IUPUI
8	Oakland	6–12	11–18	0–2 vs. IUPUI
9	Detroit Mercy	3–15	3–26
10	UIC	2–16	3–26

Source:

Schedule

Game	Time	Matchup	Score	Television
First round – Tuesday, March 3
1	7:00 pm	No. 10 UIC at No. 3 Wright State	47-83	ESPN
2	7:00 pm	No. 9 Detroit Mercy at No. 4 Northern Kentucky	47-94
3	7:00 pm	No. 7 Youngstown State at No. 6 Cleveland State	48-84
4	8:00 pm	No. 8 Oakland at No. 5 Milwaukee	65-73
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 5
5	7:00 pm	No. 6 Cleveland State at No. 3 Wright State	63-52	ESPN
6	7:00 pm	No. 5 Milwaukee at No. 4 Northern Kentucky	58-78
Semifinals – Monday, March 9
7	12:00 pm	No. 6 Cleveland State vs. No. 1 IUPUI	54-71	ESPN
8	2:30 pm	No. 4 Northern Kentucky vs. No. 2 Green Bay	49–50
Finals – Tuesday, March 10
9	12:00 pm	No. 1 IUPUI vs. No. 2 Green Bay	51–37	ESPNU
All game times in Eastern Time Zone. Rankings denote tournament seed

Source:

Bracket

	First round Tuesday, March 3					Quarterfinals Thursday, March 5					Semifinals Monday, March 9					Championship Tuesday, March 10
	3	Wright State	83
											1	IUPUI	71
	10	UIC	47
						3	Wright State	52			6	Cleveland State	54
						6	Cleveland State	63
	4	Northern Kentucky	94
																1	IUPUI	51
	9	Detroit Mercy	47
																2	Green Bay	37
	5	Milwaukee	73
											2	Green Bay	50
	8	Oakland	65
						5	Milwaukee	58			4	Northern Kentucky	49
						4	Northern Kentucky	78
	6	Cleveland State	84
	7	Youngstown State	48