1990 Big West Conference women's basketball tournament

The 1990 Big West Conference women's basketball tournament took place March 7–10, 1990. All games were held at the Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, California. UNLV won their fourth tournament title and received the conference's automatic bid to the 1990 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament.

1990 Big West Conference women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Teams	10
Site	Long Beach Arena Long Beach, California
Champions	UNLV (4th title)
Winning coach	Joan Bonvicini (4th title)
MVP	Geannine Jordan (UNLV)
Big West Conference women's basketball tournaments

1988–89 Big West Conference women's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
UNLV †	17	–	1		.944			28	–	3		.903
Hawaii	16	–	2		.889			26	–	4		.867
Long Beach State	14	–	4		.778			25	–	9		.735
Fresno State	11	–	7		.611			21	–	12		.636
Cal State Fullerton	9	–	9		.500			14	–	14		.500
UC Santa Barbara	8	–	10		.444			13	–	15		.464
Pacific	7	–	11		.389			15	–	15		.500
San Diego State	6	–	12		.333			7	–	23		.233
San Jose State	2	–	16		.111			5	–	24		.172
UC Irvine	0	–	18		.000			1	–	27		.036
† 1990 Big West tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll

Format

All ten teams from the regular season standings qualified for the tournament.

The opening round featured two games, matching the eight versus nine seeds and the seven versus ten seeds. The remaining top seven teams were placed into the quarterfinal round, with teams seeded and paired based on regular-season records.

Bracket

	First round Wednesday, March 7					Quarterfinals Thursday, March 8					Semifinals Friday, March 9					Championship game Saturday, March 10
						1	UNLV	102
						9	San Jose State	67
	8	San Diego State	59
	9	San Jose State	81
											1	UNLV	91
											4	Fresno State	71
						4	Fresno State	72
						5	Cal State Fullerton	60
																1	UNLV	67
																3	Long Beach State	64
						3	Long Beach State	89
						6	UC Santa Barbara	59
											3	Long Beach State	85
											7	Pacific	83
						2	Hawaii	63
						7	Pacific	68
	7	Pacific	71
	10	UC Irvine	51

All-Tournament Team

• Tine Freil, Pacific
• Geannine Jordan, UNLV (MVP)
• Pauline Jordan, UNLV
• Angie Lee, Long Beach State
• Penny Moore, Long Beach State
• Julie Szukalski, Pacific