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 and earned an automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament.
Seeds 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 Conferencerecord Overallrecord Tiebreaker1UAB #13–324–52Western Kentucky #12–421–83Louisiana Tech #10–619–100–1 vs. Charlotte, 1–0 vs. Middle Tennessee, 2–0 vs. Rice4Middle Tennessee #10–618–112–0 vs. Charlotte, 0–1 vs. Louisiana Tech, 1–0 vs. Rice5Rice10–620–81–0 vs. Charlotte, 0–2 vs. Louisiana Tech, 0–1 vs. Middle Tennessee6Charlotte10–614–151–0 vs. Louisiana Tech, 0–2 vs. Middle Tennessee, 0–1 vs. Rice7Florida Atlantic7–913–141–0 vs. Southern Miss, 1–1 vs. UTEP8Southern Miss7–915–140–1 vs. Florida Atlantic, 1–0 vs. UTEP9UTEP7–916–131–1 vs. Florida Atlantic, 0–1 vs. Southern Miss10UTSA6–108–201–0 vs. North Texas, 1–1 vs. Old Dominion11North Texas6–1015–132–0 vs. Old Dominion, 0–1 vs. UTSA12Old Dominion6–108–220–1 vs. North Texas, 1–1 vs. UTSAFIU5–118–21 Marshall3–139–20 ‡ – 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.
Schedule SessionGameTime*Matchup#TelevisionAttendance First round – Wednesday, March 71111:00 am#8 Southern Miss vs #9 UTEP211:30 am#5 Rice vs #12 Old Dominion231:30 pm#7 Florida Atlantic vs #10 UTSA42:00 pm#6 Charlotte vs #11 North Texas Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 83511:00 am#1 UAB vs #9 UTEP611:30 am#4 Middle Tennessee vs #5 Rice471:30 pm#2 Western Kentucky vs #7 Florida Atlantic82:00 pm#3 Louisiana Tech vs #5 Old Dominion Semifinals – Friday, March 9595:30 pm#1 UAB vs #5 RiceStadium108:00 pm#2 Western Kentucky vs #11 North Texas Championship – Saturday, March 106114:30 pm#1 UAB vs #2 Western KentuckyCBSSN *Game times in CT. #-Rankings denote tournament seed
Bracket The tournament took place March 7–10.
All times listed are Central
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See also 2018 Conference USA men's basketball tournament
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