2015 Conference USA women's basketball tournament explained

Year:	2015
Conference:	Conference USA
Division:	I
Gender:	Women's
Teams:	12
Arena:	Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex Bartow Arena
City:	Birmingham, Alabama
Champions:	WKU
Titlecount:	1st
Coach:	Michelle Clark-Heard
Coachcount:	1st
Mvp:	Alexis Govan
Mvpteam:	WKU
Television:	ASN, CBSSN

The 2015 Conference USA women's basketball tournament was a postseason women's basketball tournament for Conference USA was held March 11–14 in Birmingham, Alabama. The first two rounds took place at Bartow Arena while the semifinals and championship took place at Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex.^[1]

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	27-4
2	Middle Tennessee	14-4	20-8
3	Southern Miss	13-5	20-9
4	UT-San Antonio	11-7	16-14	1-0 vs. ODU, 0-1 vs. UAB, 1-0 vs. WKU
5	Old Dominion	11-7	18-11	1-0 vs. UAB, 0-1 vs. UTSA, 0-2 vs. WKU
6	UAB	11-7	17-12	0-1 vs. ODU, 1-0 vs. UTSA, 0-1 vs. WKU
7	Louisiana Tech	10-8	15-14	1-0 vs. Charlotte
8	Charlotte	10-8	14-16	0-1 vs. Louisiana Tech
9	Marshall	8-10	16-13
10	Florida Atlantic	7-11	13-16	1-0 vs. UTEP
11	UTEP	7-11	12-15	0-1 vs. Florida Atlantic
12	Rice	4-14	8-20
‡ – 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: North Texas (4-14), FIU (0-18)

Schedule

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup^#	Television	Attendance
First round – Wednesday, March 11
1	1	11:00 am	11 UTEP vs #6 UAB	ASN	787
	2	1:30 pm	10 Florida Atlantic vs #7 Louisiana Tech		284
2	3	5:00 pm	9 Marshall vs #8 Charlotte		212
	4	7:30 pm	12 Rice vs #5 Old Dominion		313
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 12
3	5	11:00 am	3 Southern Miss vs #6 UAB	ASN	888
	6	1:30 pm	2 Middle Tennessee vs #7 Louisiana Tech		632
4	7	5:00 pm	1 Western Kentucky vs #8 Charlotte		357
	8	7:30 pm	4 UT-San Antonio vs #5 Old Dominion		211
Semifinals – Friday, March 13
5	9	10:00 am	3 Southern Miss vs #2 Middle Tennessee	CBSSN
	10	12:30 pm	1 Western Kentucky vs #5 Old Dominion
Championship – Saturday, March 14
6	11	7:00 pm	3 Southern Miss vs. #1 Western Kentucky	CBSSN
*Game times in CT. #-Rankings denote tournament seed|} Bracket All times listed are Central See also 2015 Conference USA men's basketball tournament References

Notes and References

1. Web site: Conference USA Official Athletic Site - Women's Basketball Championship. Conference USA. February 19, 2015. February 20, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150220082227/http://www.conferenceusa.com/championships/w-baskbl-championship-15.html. dead.