2017 Conference USA women's basketball tournament explained

Year:	2017
Conference:	Conference USA
Division:	I
Gender:	Women's
Teams:	12
Arena:	Legacy Arena Bartow Arena
City:	Birmingham, Alabama
Champions:	WKU
Titlecount:	2nd
Coach:	Michelle Clark-Heard
Coachcount:	2nd
Mvp:	Kendall Noble
Mvpteam:	WKU
Television:	ASN, CBSSN, Campus Insiders

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.

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]

All times listed are Central

See also

2017 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.
2. Web site: C-USA 2017 Women's Basketball Championship Bracket . conferenceusa.com . March 10, 2017.