The 2017 American Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament was a postseason tournament held from March 3–6, 2017 in the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. Connecticut received an automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.
Seeds All the teams in the American Athletic Conference qualified for the tournament. Teams were seeded based on conference record, and then a tiebreaker system was used. Teams seeded 6–11 played in the opening round, and teams seeded 1–5 received a bye to the quarterfinals.
SeedSchoolConferenceOverallTiebreaker1 Connecticut ‡16–029–02 Temple #13–323–63 South Florida #11–522–74 UCF #9–719–105 Tulane #7–916–133–2 vs SMU/Cincinnati/Memphis, 1–0 vs SMU6SMU7–916–133–2 vs Tulane/Cincinnati/Memphis, 0–1 vs Tulane7Cincinnati7–916–133–3 vs Tulane/SMU/Memphis8Memphis7–914–152–4 vs Tulane/SMU/Cincinnati9Tulsa5–119–2010Houston4–1211–1811East Carolina2–1411–17‡ – American Athletic Conference regular season champions.# – Received a first-round bye in the conference tournament. Overall record are as of the end of the regular season.
Schedule All tournament games are nationally televised on an ESPN network:
SessionGameTime*Matchup#TelevisionAttendance First round – Friday, March 3 1 1 4:00 PM #8 Memphis vs. #9 Tulsa ESPN3 4,446 2 6:00 PM #7 Cincinnati vs. #10 Houston 3 8:00 PM #6 SMU vs. #11 East Carolina Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 4 2 4 12:00 PM #4 UCF vs. #5 Tulane ESPN3 5,513 5 2:00 PM #1 Connecticut vs. #9 Tulsa 3 6 6:00 PM #2 Temple vs. #10 Houston 4,559 7 8:00 PM #3 South Florida vs. #6 SMU Semifinals – Sunday, March 5 4 8 5:00 PM #4 UCF vs. #1 Connecticut ESPN2 6,491 9 7:30 PM #2 Temple vs. #3 South Florida ESPNU Championship Game – Monday, March 6 5 10 7:00 PM #1 Connecticut vs. #3 South Florida ESPN2 6,488 *Game Times in EST. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.
Bracket
Note: * denotes overtime
See also
2017 American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament
References