The 2016 Conference USA women's basketball tournament was a postseason women's basketball tournament for Conference USA was held March 8–12 in Birmingham, Alabama. The first two rounds took place at Bartow Arena while the semifinals and championship were held at Legacy Arena.[1] Middle Tennessee won their second C-USA title and earn an automatic trip to the NCAA women's tournament.
Seeds
The top fourteen teams qualified for the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
Seed
School
Conference
Overall
Tiebreaker
1
UTEP
16–2
25–3
2
Middle Tennessee
15–3
21–8
1–1 vs. WKU, 1–0 vs. CHA
3
WKU
15–3
24–5
1–1 vs. MTSU, 1–1 vs. CHA
4
Charlotte
12–6
18–10
5
Old Dominion
10–8
14–16
6
Marshall
9–9
19–10
1–0 vs. LT
7
Louisiana Tech
9–9
14–15
0–1 vs. MARSHALL
8
UAB
7–11
14–15
2–0 vs. RICE, USM
9
Southern Miss
7–11
14–15
2–1 vs. RICE, UAB
10
Rice
7–11
8–21
0–3 vs. USM, UAB
11
UTSA
6–12
10–18
1–1 vs. FAU, 1–0 vs. USM
12
Florida Atlantic
6–12
14–15
1–1 vs. UTSA, 0–1 vs. USM
13
North Texas
5–13
10–18
14
FIU
2–16
4–25
‡ – C–USA regular season champions, and tournament No. 1 seed. † – Received a double–bye in the conference tournament. # – Received a single–bye in the conference tournament. Overall records include all games played in the C–USA Tournament.
Schedule
Session
Game
Time*
Matchup#
Television
Attendance
First round – Tuesday, March 8
1
1
11:00 am
#12 Florida Atlantic vs. #13 North Texas
ASN
273
2
1:30 pm
#11 UTSA vs. #14 FIU
272
Second round – Wednesday, March 9
2
3
11:00 am
#8 UAB vs. #9 Southern Miss
ASN
356
4
1:30 pm
#5 Old Dominion vs. #13 North Texas
311
3
5
5:00 pm
#7 Louisiana Tech vs. #10 Rice
6
7:30 pm
#6 Marshall vs. #14 FIU
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 10
4
7
11:00 am
#1 UTEP vs. #8 UAB
ASN
327
8
1:30 pm
#4 Charlotte vs. #5 Old Dominion
432
5
9
5:00 pm
#3 Middle Tennessee vs. #10 Rice
563
10
7:30 pm
#2 WKU vs #6 Marshall
499
Semifinals – Friday, March 11
6
11
10:00 am
#1 UTEP vs #5 Old Dominion
CBSSN
12
12:30 pm
#3 Middle Tennessee vs #6 Marshall
Championship – Saturday, March 12
7
13
7:00 pm
#5 Old Dominion vs #3 Middle Tennessee
CBSSN
*Game times in CT. #-Rankings denote tournament seed