2017 Southland Conference women's basketball tournament

The 2017 Southland Conference women's basketball tournament, a part of the 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season, took place March 9–12, 2017 at the Merrell Center in Katy, Texas. The winner of the tournament, the Central Arkansas Sugar Bears, received the Southland Conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA tournament.

Seeds and regular season standings
Only the Top 8 teams advanced to the Southland Conference tournament. The co-regular season champion Abilene Christian Wildcats were ineligible for the NCAA Tourney. Their seed fell to the next eligible team. Abilene Christian and Incarnate Word were ineligible for post-season play as they were in the final year of a 4-year transition from D2 to D1. They will be eligible for the Southland tourney in 2018. This chart shows all the teams records and standings and explains why teams advanced to the conference tourney or finished in certain tiebreaking positions.

Schedule
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Awards and honors
Source: '''Tournament MVP: Maggie Proffitt, Central Arkansas

All-Tournament Team:


 * Maggie Proffitt, Central Arkansas


 * Stevi Parker, Stephen F. Austin
 * Taylor Baudoin, Central Arkansas
 * Taylor Ross, Stephen F. Austin
 * Kassie Jones, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi