2019 Conference USA women's basketball tournament explained

The 2019 Conference USA women's basketball tournament was a postseason women's basketball tournament for Conference USA that was held at The Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, from March 13 through March 16, 2019. In the first round and quarterfinals, two games were played simultaneously within the same arena, with the courts separated by a curtain.^[1] Rice won the conference tournament championship game over Middle Tennessee, 69–54. Nancy Mulkey was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player.^[2]

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	Conference record	Overall record	Tiebreaker
1	Rice	16–0	25–3
2	UAB	12–4	24–5
3	Middle Tennessee	11–5	20–9	1–0 vs. UAB
4	Western Kentucky	11–5	17–13	0–1 vs. UAB
5	Old Dominion	10–6	20–9	1–0 vs. USM
6	Marshall	10–6	16–13	0–1 vs. USM
7	Charlotte	9–7	17–11	1–0 vs. WKU
8	Southern Miss	9–7	17–12	0–1 vs. WKU
9	North Texas	7–9	14–14
10	Louisiana Tech	6–10	14–15
11	UTEP	5–11	8–21
12	Florida Atlantic	2–14	6–23	2–1 vs. FIU, UTSA
	FIU	2–14	5–24	1–2 vs. FAU, UTSA
	UTSA	2–14	7–21	0–2 vs. FIU, FAU
‡ – 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

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup#	Television	Attendance
First round – Wednesday, March 13
1	1	11:00 am	8 Southern Miss vs #9 North Texas	ESPN+
	2	11:30 am	5 Old Dominion vs #12 Florida Atlantic
2	3	1:30 pm	7 Charlotte vs #10 Louisiana Tech		1,921
	4	2:00 pm	6 Marshall vs #11 UTEP
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 14
3	5	11:00 am	1 Rice vs #9 North Texas	Stadium
	6	11:30 am	4 Western Kentucky vs #5 Old Dominion	ESPN+
4	7	1:30 pm	2 UAB vs #7 Charlotte	Stadium
	8	2:00 pm	3 Middle Tennessee vs #11 UTEP	ESPN+
Semifinals – Friday, March 15
5	9	5:30 pm	1 Rice vs #4 Western Kentucky	Stadium	2,592
	10	8:00 pm	2 UAB vs #3 Middle Tennessee
Championship – Saturday, March 16
6	11	4:30 pm	1 Rice vs #3 Middle Tennessee	CBSSN
*Game times in CT. #-Rankings denote tournament seed|} Bracket All times listed are Central See also 2019 Conference USA men's basketball tournament References ]

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2019 C-USA Basketball Championships.
2. Web site: MVP Mulkey helps No. 24 Rice women top MTSU for C-USA title. 2019-03-17. NewsTimes. 2019-03-17.