2018 Conference USA women's basketball tournament

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.

2018 Conference USA women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2017–18
Teams	12
Site	The Ford Center at The Star Frisco, Texas
Champions	Western Kentucky (3rd title)
Winning coach	Michelle Clark-Heard (3r title)
MVP	Tashia Brown (Western Kentucky)
Television	Stadium, CBSSN
Conference USA women's basketball tournaments

2017–18 Conference USA women's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
UAB	13	–	3		.813			27	–	7		.794
Western Kentucky †	12	–	4		.750			24	–	9		.727
Rice	10	–	6		.625			23	–	10		.697
Louisiana Tech	10	–	6		.625			19	–	12		.613
Middle Tennessee	10	–	6		.625			18	–	13		.581
Charlotte	10	–	6		.625			14	–	16		.467
UTEP	7	–	9		.438			17	–	14		.548
Florida Atlantic	7	–	9		.438			13	–	15		.464
Southern Miss	7	–	9		.438			15	–	15		.500
North Texas	6	–	10		.375			17	–	14		.548
UTSA	6	–	10		.375			9	–	21		.300
Old Dominion	6	–	10		.375			8	–	23		.258
FIU	5	–	11		.313			8	–	21		.276
Marshall	3	–	13		.188			9	–	20		.310
† 2018 C-USA Tournament winner As of 20 March 2018 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	UAB #	13–3	24–5
2	Western Kentucky #	12–4	21–8
3	Louisiana Tech #	10–6	19–10	0–1 vs. Charlotte, 1–0 vs. Middle Tennessee, 2–0 vs. Rice
4	Middle Tennessee #	10–6	18–11	2–0 vs. Charlotte, 0–1 vs. Louisiana Tech, 1–0 vs. Rice
5	Rice	10–6	20–8	1–0 vs. Charlotte, 0–2 vs. Louisiana Tech, 0–1 vs. Middle Tennessee
6	Charlotte	10–6	14–15	1–0 vs. Louisiana Tech, 0–2 vs. Middle Tennessee, 0–1 vs. Rice
7	Florida Atlantic	7–9	13–14	1–0 vs. Southern Miss, 1–1 vs. UTEP
8	Southern Miss	7–9	15–14	0–1 vs. Florida Atlantic, 1–0 vs. UTEP
9	UTEP	7–9	16–13	1–1 vs. Florida Atlantic, 0–1 vs. Southern Miss
10	UTSA	6–10	8–20	1–0 vs. North Texas, 1–1 vs. Old Dominion
11	North Texas	6–10	15–13	2–0 vs. Old Dominion, 0–1 vs. UTSA
12	Old Dominion	6–10	8–22	0–1 vs. North Texas, 1–1 vs. UTSA
	FIU	5–11	8–21
	Marshall	3–13	9–20
‡ – 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

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup#	Television	Attendance
First round – Wednesday, March 7
1	1	11:00 am	#8 Southern Miss vs #9 UTEP
	2	11:30 am	#5 Rice vs #12 Old Dominion
2	3	1:30 pm	#7 Florida Atlantic vs #10 UTSA
	4	2:00 pm	#6 Charlotte vs #11 North Texas
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 8
3	5	11:00 am	#1 UAB vs #9 UTEP
	6	11:30 am	#4 Middle Tennessee vs #5 Rice
4	7	1:30 pm	#2 Western Kentucky vs #7 Florida Atlantic
	8	2:00 pm	#3 Louisiana Tech vs #5 Old Dominion
Semifinals – Friday, March 9
5	9	5:30 pm	#1 UAB vs #5 Rice	Stadium
	10	8:00 pm	#2 Western Kentucky vs #11 North Texas
Championship – Saturday, March 10
6	11	4:30 pm	#1 UAB vs #2 Western Kentucky	CBSSN
*Game times in CT. #-Rankings denote tournament seed

Bracket

	First round Wednesday, March 7					Quarterfinals Thursday, March 8					Semifinals Friday, March 9					Championship Game Saturday, March 10 CBSSN
						1	UAB	75
						9	UTEP	66
	8	Southern Miss	67
	9	UTEP	72
											1	UAB	67
											5	Rice	55
						4	Middle Tennessee	53
						5	Rice	61
	5	Rice	70
	12	Old Dominion	48
																1	UAB	57
																2	Western Kentucky	72
						2	Western Kentucky	78
						10	UTSA	50
	7	Florida Atlantic	71
	10	UTSA	83
											2	Western Kentucky	77
											11	North Texas	61
						3	Louisiana Tech	69
						11	North Texas	76
	6	Charlotte	55
	11	North Texas	58

All times listed are Central

See also

2018 Conference USA men's basketball tournament