The 2021 Mountain West women's basketball tournament (officially known as the 2021 Air Force Reserve Mountain West Women's Basketball Championship due to sponsorship reasons) was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the 2020âÂÂ21 season in the Mountain West Conference. The tournament was held March 11âÂÂ13, 2021 at the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The tournament winner received an automatic invitation to the 2021 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. Wyoming won the conference tournament championship game over Fresno State, 59âÂÂ56.
All remaining ten MW schools were eligible to participate in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical percentages. The top four teams received byes into the tournament quarterfinals. The remaining teams played in the first round. Tie-breaking procedures remained unchanged from the 2020 tournament.
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