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. 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 Tiebreaker1Western Kentucky 16–2 25–62 Middle Tennessee 15–3 20–93 Southern Miss 13–5 21–94 Louisiana Tech 12–6 17–12 1–0 vs. Charlotte5 Charlotte 12–6 20–9 0–1 vs. Louisiana Tech6 Old Dominion 11–7 16–13 7 UTSA 10–8 14–15 8 Rice 8–10 17–12 1–1 vs. Charlotte9 North Texas 8–10 11–18 0–2 vs. Charlotte10 UAB 7–11 14–15 11 UTEP 5–13 8–22 12Marshall 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 RoundDateGameMatchup#TelevisionAttendanceFirstMarch 8, 20171#9 UAB vs #8 North Texas Campus Insiders8202#12 Marshall vs #5 Charlotte3#10 Rice vs #7 UTSA1,0014#11 UTEP vs #6 Old DominionQuarterfinalMarch 9, 20175#1 WKU vs #8 North Texas Campus Insiders6866#4 Louisiana Tech vs #5 Charlotte7#2 Middle Tennessee vs #10 Rice8#3 Southern Miss vs #6 Old DominionSemifinalsMarch 10, 20179#1 WKU vs #4 Louisiana TechASN10#2 Middle Tennessee vs #3 Southern MissChampionshipMarch 11, 201711#1 WKU vs. #3 Southern MissCBSSN
Bracket
All times listed are Central
See also 2017 Conference USA men's basketball tournament
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