Year: | 2024 |
Conference: | Conference USA |
Division: | I |
Gender: | Women's |
Teams: | 9 |
Arena: | Propst Arena |
City: | Huntsville, Alabama |
Champions: | Middle Tennessee |
Titlecount: | 5th |
Coach: | Rick Insell |
Coachcount: | 5th |
Mvp: | Savannah Wheeler |
Mvpteam: | Middle Tennessee |
Television: | ESPN+, CBSSN |
The 2024 Conference USA women's basketball tournament was a postseason tournament held from March 12–16, 2024 at Propst Arena, part of the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama.[1] All nine members of Conference USA (CUSA) participated in the tournament. Middle Tennessee, which finished the regular season undefeated in CUSA play, won the tournament and claimed CUSA's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
Teams were seeded by conference record. The top seven teams received byes to the quarterfinals.
Seed | School | Conference record | Tiebreaker | |
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1 | Middle Tennessee | 16–0 | ||
2 | Liberty | 11–5 | 3–1 vs. FIU/NMSU | |
3 | FIU | 11–5 | 2–2 vs. LIB/NMSU | |
4 | Louisiana Tech | 7–9 | 2–0 vs. JSU | |
5 | Jacksonville State | 7–9 | 0–2 vs. LT | |
6 | New Mexico State | 6–10 | 3–1 vs. WKU/UTEP | |
7 | Western Kentucky | 6–10 | 3–3 vs. NMSU/UTEP/LIB | |
8 | UTEP | 6–10 | 2–4 vs. WKU/NMSU/LIB | |
9 | Sam Houston | 2–14 |
Game | Time | Matchup | Score | Television | Attendance | ||
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First round – March 12, 2024 | |||||||
1 | 5:30 pm | No. 8 UTEP vs. No. 9 Sam Houston | 78–64 | ESPN+ | 227 | ||
Quarterfinals – March 13, 2024 | |||||||
2 | 11:30 am | No. 1 Middle Tennessee vs. No. 8 UTEP | 78–50 | ESPN+ | 570 | ||
3 | 2:00 pm | No. 2 Liberty vs. No. 7 Western Kentucky | 62–59 | 636 | |||
Quarterfinals – March 14, 2024 | |||||||
4 | 11:30 am | No. 4 Louisiana Tech vs. No. 5 Jacksonville State | 60–54 | ESPN+ | 2,157 | ||
5 | 2:00 pm | No. 3 FIU vs. No. 6 New Mexico State | 58–63 | 2,029 | |||
Semifinals – March 15, 2024 | |||||||
6 | 5:30 pm | No. 1 Middle Tennessee vs. No. 4 Louisiana Tech | 62–56 | ESPN+ | 2,701 | ||
7 | 8:00 pm | No. 2 Liberty vs. No. 6 New Mexico State | 82–70 | 2,157 | |||
Championship – March 16, 2024 | |||||||
8 | 4:30 pm | No. 1 Middle Tennessee vs No. 2 Liberty | 67–51 | CBSSN | 4,301 | ||
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* – Denotes overtime period