1996 Southwest Conference women's basketball tournament

The 1996 Southwest Conference women's basketball tournament was held March 6–9, 1996, at Moody Coliseum in Dallas, Texas.

Number 4 seed defeated 2 seed  72–68 to win their first championship and receive the conference's automatic bid to the 1996 NCAA tournament.

Texas Tech, SMU, and Texas received at-large bids for the NCAA tournament.

Format and seeding
The tournament consisted of an 8 team single-elimination tournament.