The 2017 Conference USA women's basketball tournament was a postseason women's basketball tournament for Conference USA was held March 8–11 in Birmingham, Alabama. The first two rounds took place at Bartow Arena while the semifinals and championship took place at Legacy Arena.[1] WKU won their 2nd C-USA tournament title and earned an automatic trip to the NCAA women's tournament.
Seeds
The top twelve 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
Western Kentucky
16–2
25–6
2
Middle Tennessee
15–3
20–9
3
Southern Miss
13–5
21–9
4
Louisiana Tech
12–6
17–12
1–0 vs. Charlotte
5
Charlotte
12–6
20–9
0–1 vs. Louisiana Tech
6
Old Dominion
11–7
16–13
7
UTSA
10–8
14–15
8
Rice
8–10
17–12
1–1 vs. Charlotte
9
North Texas
8–10
11–18
0–2 vs. Charlotte
10
UAB
7–11
14–15
11
UTEP
5–13
8–22
12
Marshall
5–13
13–16
‡ – 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.
Eliminated from Conference tournament: Florida Atlantic, Florida International
Schedule
*Game times in CT. #-Rankings denote tournament seed
