2019 Conference USA Women's Basketball Tournament

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]

2019 Conference USA Women's Basketball Tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2018–19
Teams	12
Site	The Ford Center at The Star Frisco, Texas
Champions	Rice (1st title)
Winning coach	Tina Langley (1st title)
MVP	Nancy Mulkey (Rice)
Television	ESPN+, Stadium, CBSSN
Conference USA Women's Basketball Tournaments

2018–19 Conference USA women's basketball standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
No. 21 Rice †	16	–	0		1.000			28	–	4		.875
UAB	12	–	4		.750			26	–	7		.788
Middle Tennessee	11	–	5		.688			23	–	11		.676
Western Kentucky	11	–	5		.688			20	–	15		.571
Old Dominion	10	–	6		.625			21	–	11		.656
Marshall	10	–	6		.625			17	–	15		.531
Charlotte	9	–	7		.563			18	–	14		.563
Southern Miss	9	–	7		.563			18	–	14		.563
North Texas	7	–	9		.438			18	–	16		.529
Louisiana Tech	6	–	10		.375			14	–	16		.467
UTEP	5	–	11		.313			9	–	22		.290
UTSA	2	–	14		.125			7	–	21		.250
FIU	2	–	14		.125			5	–	24		.172
Florida Atlantic	2	–	14		.125			5	–	25		.167
† 2019 C-USA Tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll

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

	First Round Wednesday, March 13 ESPN+					Quarterfinals Thursday, March 14 ESPN+/Stadium					Semifinals Friday, March 15 Stadium					Championship Game Saturday, March 16 CBSSN
						1	Rice	61
						9	North Texas	43
	8	Southern Miss	46
	9	North Texas	49
											1	Rice	64
										4	Western Kentucky	57
						4	Western Kentucky	74
						5	Old Dominion	60
	5	Old Dominion	60
	12	Florida Atlantic	32
																1	Rice	69
																3	Middle Tennessee	54
						2	UAB	70
						7	Charlotte	55
	7	Charlotte	55
	10	Louisiana Tech	46
											2	UAB	65
										3	Middle Tennessee	75
						3	Middle Tennessee	66
						11	UTEP	44
	6	Marshall	56
	11	UTEP	64^2OT

All times listed are Central

See also

2019 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament

References

1. http://conferenceusa.com/sports/2018/10/1/2019-CUSA-Basketball-Championships.aspx
2. "MVP Mulkey helps No. 24 Rice women top MTSU for C-USA title". NewsTimes. 2019-03-17. Retrieved 2019-03-17.