Four Ohio Valley Conference women’s basketball teams played in postseason tournaments, highlighted by Tennessee-Martin who played in the NCAA Tournament Saturday against Tennessee.

Tennessee blew out the Skyhawks, 72-49, to knock them out of the tournament in the first round. Tennessee-Martin guard Heather Butler was held to 14 points in the game.

Eastern’s women’s basketball team played in the Women’s National Invitational Tournament, losing in the first round to Texas Tech.

Tennessee Tech and Southern Illinois-Edwardsville played in the Women’s Basketball Invitational.

Tech stormed out to a 20-point lead in the first half against Bradley, but the Braves came back in the second half and squeaked out a 74-71 win.

The game came down to the wire, with Bradley getting its first lead since the opening minutes of the game with 3:18 to go in the game.

The Braves led 72-67 with 1:42 to go in the game, but Tech’s Tacarra Hayes sank a basket to make it 72-69.

Trailing 74-69, Tech’s Jala Harris hit a jumper to bring the score closer, 74-71. Tech had two opportunities to tie the game in the last 24 seconds.

The loss knocked Tech out of the tournament. Wright State beat Southern Illinois-Edwardsville in the same tournament to eliminate the last OVC team.

Edwardsville lost 73-64 after having drawn even with Wright State 54-54 with five minutes to play.

Wright State made 11-of-12 free throws in the final 64 seconds to seal the victory.

Alex McNamee can be reached at 581-7942 or admcnamee@eiu.edu.