| Year: | 2018 |
| Conference: | Conference USA |
| Division: | I |
| Gender: | Women's |
| Teams: | 12 |
| Arena: | The Ford Center at The Star |
| City: | Frisco, Texas |
| Champions: | Western Kentucky |
| Titlecount: | 3rd |
| Coach: | Michelle Clark-Heard |
| Coachcount: | 3r |
| Mvp: | Tashia Brown |
| Mvpteam: | Western Kentucky |
| Television: | Stadium, CBSSN |
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.
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.
| Seed | School | Conference record | Overall record | Tiebreaker |
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| 1 | UAB # | 13–3 | 24–5 | |
| 2 | Western Kentucky # | 12–4 | 21–8 | |
| 3 | Louisiana Tech # | 10–6 | 19–10 | 0–1 vs. Charlotte, 1–0 vs. Middle Tennessee, 2–0 vs. Rice |
| 4 | Middle Tennessee # | 10–6 | 18–11 | 2–0 vs. Charlotte, 0–1 vs. Louisiana Tech, 1–0 vs. Rice |
| 5 | Rice | 10–6 | 20–8 | 1–0 vs. Charlotte, 0–2 vs. Louisiana Tech, 0–1 vs. Middle Tennessee |
| 6 | Charlotte | 10–6 | 14–15 | 1–0 vs. Louisiana Tech, 0–2 vs. Middle Tennessee, 0–1 vs. Rice |
| 7 | Florida Atlantic | 7–9 | 13–14 | 1–0 vs. Southern Miss, 1–1 vs. UTEP |
| 8 | Southern Miss | 7–9 | 15–14 | 0–1 vs. Florida Atlantic, 1–0 vs. UTEP |
| 9 | UTEP | 7–9 | 16–13 | 1–1 vs. Florida Atlantic, 0–1 vs. Southern Miss |
| 10 | UTSA | 6–10 | 8–20 | 1–0 vs. North Texas, 1–1 vs. Old Dominion |
| 11 | North Texas | 6–10 | 15–13 | 2–0 vs. Old Dominion, 0–1 vs. UTSA |
| 12 | Old Dominion | 6–10 | 8–22 | 0–1 vs. North Texas, 1–1 vs. UTSA |
| FIU | 5–11 | 8–21 | ||
| Marshall | 3–13 | 9–20 | ||
| ‡ – 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. |
| Session | Game | Time* | Matchup# | Television | Attendance |
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| First round – Wednesday, March 7 | |||||
| 1 | 1 | 11:00 am |
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| 2 | 11:30 am |
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| 2 | 3 | 1:30 pm |
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| 4 | 2:00 pm |
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| Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 8 | |||||
| 3 | 5 | 11:00 am |
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| 6 | 11:30 am |
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| 4 | 7 | 1:30 pm |
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| 8 | 2:00 pm |
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| Semifinals – Friday, March 9 | |||||
| 5 | 9 | 5:30 pm |
| Stadium | |
| 10 | 8:00 pm |
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| Championship – Saturday, March 10 | |||||
| 6 | 11 | 4:30 pm |
| CBSSN | |
*Game times in CT. #-Rankings denote tournament seed|}BracketAll times listed are Central See also2018 Conference USA men's basketball tournament References | |||||