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The Gulf South Conference women's basketball tournament is the annual conference women's basketball championship tournament for the Gulf South Conference. The tournament has been held annually since 1983, except for a two-year hiatus during 1990 and 1991. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. [1]
The Lady Statesmen began play in 1925. They joined the Gulf South Conference for women's basketball in 1986. The Lady Statesmen won three consecutive AIAW titles from 1974 to 1977, led by coach Margaret Wade, who was dubbed the "mother of modern women's college basketball," and star player Lusia Harris, who was drafted into the NBA her senior year.
1970 – The Gulf South Conference (GSC) was founded as a football-only league known as the Mid-South Athletic Conference (MSAC). Charter members included Delta State College (now Delta State University), Jacksonville State University, Florence State University (now the University of North Alabama), the University of Tennessee at Martin, Troy State University (now Troy University) and ...
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The 2024–25 Florida Gulf Coast Eagles women's basketball team represents Florida Gulf Coast University during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season.The Eagles, led by first-year head coach Chelsea Lyles, play their home games at Alico Arena in Fort Myers, Florida, as members of the Atlantic Sun Conference.
Those years also produced the school's first women's basketball All-American in Wanda Beckham, who was a second-team AIAW selection in 1980. Major change came in 1982 when women's sports were included for the first time as championships under both the Gulf South Conference and the NCAA.
They were champions of the Gulf South Conference in 1991 and tournament champions in 1993, with the latter championship occurring in their final season in that league. JSU began a transition to NCAA Division I in 1993, initially playing as an independent before joining the ASUN (then known as the Trans America Athletic Conference) in 1995.
The ASUN women's basketball tournament is a postseason tournament that determines which team receives the ASUN Conference's automatic bid into the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. The tournament was first held in 1986 by the New South Women's Athletic Conference , a women-only Division I conference.