BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The Southeastern Conference had nine teams earn bids to the 2016 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship. This is the most SEC teams to receive bids to the NCAA tournament in conference history and the second time in NCAA history that one conference has sent nine teams to the tournament. The Big East did so in 2011.
Until 2004, the SEC was the only conference to ever have eight teams receive NCAA bids. The league has achieved this feat four times, in 1999, 2002, 2012 & 2014. The league was also the first to ever have seven teams receive NCAA bids and has earned that honor ten times, including last season.