2017 Conference USA women's basketball tournament

The 2017 Conference USA women's basketball tournament was a postseason women's basketball tournament for Conference USA was held March 8–11 in Birmingham, Alabama. The first two rounds took place at Bartow Arena while the semifinals and championship took place at Legacy Arena.^[1] WKU won their 2nd C-USA tournament title and earned an automatic trip to the NCAA women's tournament.

2017 Conference USA women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2016–17
Teams	12
Site	Legacy Arena Bartow Arena Birmingham, Alabama
Champions	WKU (2nd title)
Winning coach	Michelle Clark-Heard (2nd title)
MVP	Kendall Noble (WKU)
Television	ASN, CBSSN, Campus Insiders
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2016–17 Conference USA women's basketball standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
WKU †	16	–	2		.889			27	–	8		.771
Middle Tennessee	15	–	3		.833			23	–	11		.676
Southern Miss	13	–	5		.722			23	–	11		.676
Charlotte	12	–	6		.667			21	–	10		.677
Louisiana Tech	12	–	6		.667			18	–	14		.563
Old Dominion	11	–	7		.611			17	–	14		.548
UTSA	10	–	8		.556			14	–	17		.452
Rice	8	–	10		.444			22	–	13		.629
UAB	8	–	10		.444			15	–	15		.500
North Texas	8	–	10		.444			12	–	19		.387
Marshall	5	–	13		.278			13	–	17		.433
UTEP	5	–	13		.278			8	–	23		.258
FIU	3	–	15		.167			5	–	24		.172
Florida Atlantic	0	–	18		.000			4	–	25		.138
† 2017 C-USA Tournament winner As of March 26, 2017 Rankings from AP poll

Seeds

The top twelve 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	Western Kentucky	16–2	25–6
2	Middle Tennessee	15–3	20–9
3	Southern Miss	13–5	21–9
4	Louisiana Tech	12–6	17–12	1–0 vs. Charlotte
5	Charlotte	12–6	20–9	0–1 vs. Louisiana Tech
6	Old Dominion	11–7	16–13
7	UTSA	10–8	14–15
8	Rice	8–10	17–12	1–1 vs. Charlotte
9	North Texas	8–10	11–18	0–2 vs. Charlotte
10	UAB	7–11	14–15
11	UTEP	5–13	8–22
12	Marshall	5–13	13–16
‡ – 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.

Eliminated from Conference tournament: Florida Atlantic, Florida International

Schedule

*Game times in CT. #-Rankings denote tournament seed

Round	Date	Game	Matchup^#	Television	Attendance
First	March 8, 2017	1	#9 UAB vs #8 North Texas	Campus Insiders	820
		2	#12 Marshall vs #5 Charlotte
		3	#10 Rice vs #7 UTSA		1,001
		4	#11 UTEP vs #6 Old Dominion
Quarterfinal	March 9, 2017	5	#1 WKU vs #8 North Texas	Campus Insiders	686
		6	#4 Louisiana Tech vs #5 Charlotte
		7	#2 Middle Tennessee vs #10 Rice
		8	#3 Southern Miss vs #6 Old Dominion
Semifinals	March 10, 2017	9	#1 WKU vs #4 Louisiana Tech	ASN
		10	#2 Middle Tennessee vs #3 Southern Miss
Championship	March 11, 2017	11	#1 WKU vs. #3 Southern Miss	CBSSN

Bracket

^[2]

	First round Wednesday, March 8 CI					Quarterfinals Thursday, March 9 CI					Semifinals Friday, March 10 ASN					Championship game Saturday, March 11 CBSSN
						1	Western Kentucky	78
						8	North Texas	51
	8	North Texas	65^2OT
	9	UAB	62
											1	Western Kentucky	77
											4	Louisiana Tech	59
						4	Louisiana Tech	66
						5	Charlotte	55
	5	Charlotte	71
	12	Marshall	66
																1	Western Kentucky	67
																3	Southern Miss	56
						2	Middle Tennessee	61
						10	Rice	59
	7	UTSA	63
	10	Rice	75
											2	Middle Tennessee	54
											3	Southern Miss	59
						3	Southern Miss	80
						6	Old Dominion	74
	6	Old Dominion	80
	11	UTEP	70

All times listed are Central

See also

2017 Conference USA men's basketball tournament

References

1. "Conference USA Official Athletic Site - Women's Basketball Championship". Conference USA. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
2. "C-USA 2017 Women's Basketball Championship Bracket" (PDF). conferenceusa.com. Retrieved March 10, 2017.