Year: | 2015 |
Conference: | Conference USA |
Division: | I |
Gender: | Men's |
Teams: | 12 |
Arena: | Legacy Arena |
City: | Birmingham, Alabama |
Champions: | UAB |
Titlecount: | 1st |
Coach: | Jerod Haase |
Coachcount: | 1st |
Television: | ASN, CBSSN, FS1 |
The 2015 Conference USA men's basketball tournament was the post-season men's basketball tournament for Conference USA, held March 11–14, 2015, in Birmingham, Alabama, at Legacy Arena.[1] [2] On January 21, 2015, Southern Miss self-imposed a postseason ban due to recruiting violations. Despite having 14 members, only 12, excluding Southern Miss, made the tournament
Seed | School | Conference | Overall | Tiebreaker |
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1 | Louisiana Tech ‡# | 15–3 | 24–7 | |
2 | UTEP # | 13–5 | 21–9 | 1–0 vs. ODU |
3 | Old Dominion # | 13–5 | 24–6 | 0–1 vs. UTEP |
4 | UAB # | 12–6 | 16–15 | 1–0 vs. WKU |
5 | WKU | 12–6 | 19–11 | 0–1 vs. UAB |
6 | Middle Tennessee | 9–9 | 16–15 | |
7 | UTSA | 8–10 | 14–15 | 3–2 vs. UNT, Rice, FIU; 2–0 vs. UNT |
8 | North Texas | 8–10 | 14–16 | 3–2 vs. UTSA, Rice, FIU; 0–2 vs. UTSA |
9 | Rice | 8–10 | 11–19 | 2–3 vs. UTSA, UNT, FIU |
10 | FIU | 8-10 | 15–16 | 1–2 vs. UTSA, UNT, Rice |
11 | Charlotte | 7–11 | 14–17 | 2–0 vs. Marshall |
12 | Marshall | 7–11 | 11–20 | 0–2 vs. Charlotte |
‡ – 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 C–USA Tournament. |
Game | Time* | Matchup# | Final Score | Television | Attendance | |
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First round – Wednesday, March 11 | ||||||
1 | 12:00 pm |
| 54-57 | ASN | 4,661 | |
2 | 2:30 pm |
| 63-60 | ASN | ||
3 | 6:00 pm |
| 59-45 | ASN | 4,695 | |
4 | 8:30 pm |
| 54-82 | ASN | ||
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 12 | ||||||
5 | 12:00 pm |
| 83-71 | ASN | 4,339 | |
6 | 2:30 pm |
| 52-59 | ASN | ||
7 | 6:00 pm |
| 53-52 | ASN | 6,922 | |
8 | 8:30 pm |
| 70-64 | ASN | ||
Semifinals – Friday, March 13 | ||||||
9 | 3:00 pm |
| 50-53 | CBSSN | 6,429 | |
10 | 5:30 pm |
| 72-62 (OT) | CBSSN | ||
Championship – Saturday, March 14 | ||||||
11 | 2:30 pm |
| 60-73 | FS1 | 8,279 | |
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