The 2023 Missouri Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, popularly referred to as "Hoops in the Heartland", is a postseason women's basketball tournament that will complete the 2022–23 season in the Missouri Valley Conference. The tournament will be held at the Vibrant Arena at the Mark in Moline, Illinois, from March 9-12, 2023. For the first time, the tournament will feature 12 teams. Belmont, Murray State, and UIC joined the conference in 2022 following Loyola Chicago's exit. Seeds Teams are seeded by conference record, with ties broken by the overall record in conference games played between the tied teams, then (if necessary) by comparison of records between the tying institutions versus the top team in the standings (and continuing from top to bottom of standings, as necessary, with the team having the better record against that team receiving the better seed). The top four seeds receive openinground byes. Schedule Bracket References Missouri Valley Conference women's basketball tournament 2022–23 Missouri Valley Conference women's basketball season College basketball tournaments in Illinois March 2023 sports events in the United States 2023 in sports in Illinois Moline, Illinois Women's sports in Illinois