2016 Conference USA women's basketball tournament

2016 Conference USA women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2015–16
Teams	14
Site	Legacy Arena Bartow Arena Birmingham, Alabama
Champions	Middle Tennessee (2nd title)
Winning coach	Rick Insell (2nd title)
MVP	Ty Petty (Middle Tennessee)
Television	ASN, CBSSN
Conference USA women's basketball tournaments

2015–16 Conference USA women's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
UTEP	16	–	2		.889			29	–	5		.853
WKU	15	–	3		.833			27	–	7		.794
Middle Tennessee †	15	–	3		.833			24	–	9		.727
Charlotte	12	–	6		.667			19	–	12		.613
Old Dominion	10	–	8		.556			17	–	17		.500
Marshall	9	–	9		.500			21	–	12		.636
Louisiana Tech	9	–	9		.500			14	–	16		.467
UAB	7	–	11		.389			15	–	16		.484
Southern Miss	7	–	11		.389			14	–	16		.467
Rice	7	–	11		.389			9	–	22		.290
Florida Atlantic	6	–	12		.333			14	–	16		.467
UTSA	6	–	12		.333			10	–	19		.345
North Texas	5	–	13		.278			11	–	19		.367
FIU	2	–	16		.111			5	–	26		.161
† 2016 C-USA Tournament winner As of March 28, 2016 Rankings from AP poll

The 2016 Conference USA women's basketball tournament was a postseason women's basketball tournament for Conference USA was held March 8–12 in Birmingham, Alabama. The first two rounds took place at Bartow Arena while the semifinals and championship were held at Legacy Arena. Middle Tennessee won their second C-USA title and earn an automatic trip to the NCAA women's tournament.

Seeds

The top fourteen 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	Tiebreaker
1	UTEP	16–2	25–3
2	Middle Tennessee	15–3	21–8	1–1 vs. WKU, 1–0 vs. CHA
3	WKU	15–3	24–5	1–1 vs. MTSU, 1–1 vs. CHA
4	Charlotte	12–6	18–10
5	Old Dominion	10–8	14–16
6	Marshall	9–9	19–10	1–0 vs. LT
7	Louisiana Tech	9–9	14–15	0–1 vs. MARSHALL
8	UAB	7–11	14–15	2–0 vs. RICE, USM
9	Southern Miss	7–11	14–15	2–1 vs. RICE, UAB
10	Rice	7–11	8–21	0–3 vs. USM, UAB
11	UTSA	6–12	10–18	1–1 vs. FAU, 1–0 vs. USM
12	Florida Atlantic	6–12	14–15	1–1 vs. UTSA, 0–1 vs. USM
13	North Texas	5–13	10–18
14	FIU	2–16	4–25
‡ – 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.

Schedule

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup#	Television	Attendance
First round – Tuesday, March 8
1	1	11:00 am	#12 Florida Atlantic vs. #13 North Texas	ASN	273
	2	1:30 pm	#11 UTSA vs. #14 FIU		272
Second round – Wednesday, March 9
2	3	11:00 am	#8 UAB vs. #9 Southern Miss	ASN	356
	4	1:30 pm	#5 Old Dominion vs. #13 North Texas		311
3	5	5:00 pm	#7 Louisiana Tech vs. #10 Rice
	6	7:30 pm	#6 Marshall vs. #14 FIU
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 10
4	7	11:00 am	#1 UTEP vs. #8 UAB	ASN	327
	8	1:30 pm	#4 Charlotte vs. #5 Old Dominion		432
5	9	5:00 pm	#3 Middle Tennessee vs. #10 Rice		563
	10	7:30 pm	#2 WKU vs #6 Marshall		499
Semifinals – Friday, March 11
6	11	10:00 am	#1 UTEP vs #5 Old Dominion	CBSSN
	12	12:30 pm	#3 Middle Tennessee vs #6 Marshall
Championship – Saturday, March 12
7	13	7:00 pm	#5 Old Dominion vs #3 Middle Tennessee	CBSSN
*Game times in CT. #-Rankings denote tournament seed

Bracket

	First round Tuesday, March 8 ASN					Second round Wednesday, March 9 ASN					Quarterfinals Thursday, March 10 ASN					Semifinals Friday, March 11 CBSSN					Championship game Saturday, March 12 CBSSN
											1	UTEP	62OT
						8	UAB	64			8	UAB	59
						9	Southern Miss	46								1	UTEP	54
																5	Old Dominion	66
											4	Charlotte	54
						5	Old Dominion	62			5	Old Dominion	57
	12	Florida Atlantic	74			13	North Texas	55													5	Old Dominion	54
	13	North Texas	79																		2	Middle Tennessee	70
											2	Middle Tennessee	74
						7	Louisiana Tech	57			10	Rice	54
						10	Rice	62OT								2	Middle Tennessee	69
																6	Marshall	41
											3	WKU	63
						6	Marshall	76			6	Marshall	66
	11	UTSA	56			14	FIU	44
	14	FIU	61

All times listed are Central

See also

2016 Conference USA men's basketball tournament