2018 Conference USA women's basketball tournament

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2018 Conference USA women's basketball tournament
Classification Division I
Season 201718
Teams12
Site The Ford Center at The Star
Frisco, Texas
Champions Western Kentucky (3rd title)
Winning coach Michelle Clark-Heard (3r title)
MVP Tashia Brown (Western Kentucky)
Television Stadium, CBSSN
  2017
2019  
2017–18 Conference USA women's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
UAB 133 .813277  .794
Western Kentucky124 .750249  .727
Rice 106 .6252310  .697
Louisiana Tech 106 .6251912  .613
Middle Tennessee 106 .6251813  .581
Charlotte 106 .6251416  .467
UTEP 79 .4381714  .548
Florida Atlantic 79 .4381315  .464
Southern Miss 79 .4381515  .500
North Texas 610 .3751714  .548
UTSA 610 .375921  .300
Old Dominion 610 .375823  .258
FIU 511 .313821  .276
Marshall 313 .188920  .310
2018 C-USA Tournament winner
As of 20 March 2018
Rankings from AP poll

The 2018 Conference USA women's basketball tournament was a postseason women's basketball tournament for the Conference USA held at The Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, from March 7 through March 10, 2018. Western Kentucky won their 3rd Conference USA tournament earns an automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament.

Contents

Seeds

The top twelve teams will qualify for the tournament. Teams will be seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

SeedSchoolConference
record
Overall
record
Tiebreaker
1UAB #13–324–5
2Western Kentucky #12–421–8
3Louisiana Tech #10–619–100–1 vs. Charlotte, 1–0 vs. Middle Tennessee, 2–0 vs. Rice
4Middle Tennessee #10–618–112–0 vs. Charlotte, 0–1 vs. Louisiana Tech, 1–0 vs. Rice
5Rice10–620–81–0 vs. Charlotte, 0–2 vs. Louisiana Tech, 0–1 vs. Middle Tennessee
6Charlotte10–614–151–0 vs. Louisiana Tech, 0–2 vs. Middle Tennessee, 0–1 vs. Rice
7Florida Atlantic7–913–141–0 vs. Southern Miss, 1–1 vs. UTEP
8Southern Miss7–915–140–1 vs. Florida Atlantic, 1–0 vs. UTEP
9UTEP7–916–131–1 vs. Florida Atlantic, 0–1 vs. Southern Miss
10UTSA6–108–201–0 vs. North Texas, 1–1 vs. Old Dominion
11North Texas6–1015–132–0 vs. Old Dominion, 0–1 vs. UTSA
12Old Dominion6–108–220–1 vs. North Texas, 1–1 vs. UTSA
FIU5–118–21
Marshall3–139–20
‡ – C–USA regular season champions, and tournament No. 1 seed.
# – Received a single-bye in the conference tournament.
Overall records include all games played in the regular season.

Schedule

SessionGameTime*Matchup#TelevisionAttendance
First round – Wednesday, March 7
1111:00 am#8 Southern Miss vs #9 UTEP
211:30 am#5 Rice vs #12 Old Dominion
231:30 pm#7 Florida Atlantic vs #10 UTSA
42:00 pm#6 Charlotte vs #11 North Texas
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 8
3511:00 am#1 UAB vs #9 UTEP
611:30 am#4 Middle Tennessee vs #5 Rice
471:30 pm#2 Western Kentucky vs #7 Florida Atlantic
82:00 pm#3 Louisiana Tech vs #5 Old Dominion
Semifinals – Friday, March 9
595:30 pm#1 UAB vs #5 RiceStadium
108:00 pm#2 Western Kentucky vs #11 North Texas
Championship – Saturday, March 10
6114:30 pm#1 UAB vs #2 Western KentuckyCBSSN
*Game times in CT. #-Rankings denote tournament seed

Bracket

First round
Wednesday, March 7
Quarterfinals
Thursday, March 8
Semifinals
Friday, March 9
Championship Game
Saturday, March 10
CBSSN
            
1UAB75
9 UTEP 66
8 Southern Miss 67
9UTEP72
1UAB67
5 Rice 55
4 Middle Tennessee 53
5Rice61
5Rice70
12 Old Dominion 48
1 UAB 57
2Western Kentucky72
2Western Kentucky78
10 UTSA 50
7 Florida Atlantic 71
10UTSA83
2Western Kentucky77
11 North Texas 61
3 Louisiana Tech 69
11North Texas76
6 Charlotte 55
11North Texas58

All times listed are Central

See also

2018 Conference USA men's basketball tournament

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