2016 Conference USA women's basketball tournament explained

Year:	2016
Conference:	Conference USA
Division:	I
Gender:	Women's
Teams:	14
Arena:	Legacy Arena Bartow Arena
City:	Birmingham, Alabama
Champions:	Middle Tennessee
Titlecount:	2nd
Coach:	Rick Insell
Coachcount:	2nd
Mvp:	Ty Petty
Mvpteam:	Middle Tennessee
Television:	ASN, CBSSN

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

Bracket

^[2]

All times listed are Central

See also

2016 Conference USA men's basketball tournament

Notes and References

1. Web site: Conference USA Official Athletic Site - Women's Basketball Championship. Conference USA. March 5, 2016. March 13, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160313074710/http://www.conferenceusa.com/championships/w-baskbl-championship-16.html. dead.
2. Web site: C-USA 2016 Women's Basketball Championship Bracket . conferenceusa.com . March 5, 2016 .