2016 American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament

2016 American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2015–16
Teams 11
Site Mohegan Sun Arena
Uncasville, Connecticut
Television ESPN, ESPNU, ESPN3
American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournaments
«2015 2017»
2015–16 American Athletic Conference women's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
#1 Connecticut 13 – 0   1.000     24 – 0   1.000
#22 South Florida 11 – 3   .786     18 – 6   .750
Temple 11 – 3   .786     17 – 8   .680
Memphis 9 – 5   .643     15 – 10   .600
Tulane 8 – 5   .615     17 – 8   .680
Tulsa 7 – 7   .500     10 – 15   .400
SMU 6 – 7   .462     11 – 13   .458
East Carolina 3 – 10   .231     9 – 16   .360
Cincinnati 3 – 10   .231     7 – 17   .292
UCF 2 – 12   .143     5 – 20   .200
Houston 1 – 12   .077     5 – 19   .208
† American Tournament winner
As of February 15, 2016; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2016 American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament is an upcoming tournament will be held between March 4–7, 2016 in the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut and will decide the champion of the 2015–16 American Athletic Conference women's basketball season.

Seeds

All the teams in the American Athletic Conference will qualify for the tournament. Teams are seeded based on conference record and then a tie breaker system is used. Teams seeded 6–11 will have to play in the opening round and teams seeded 1–5 receive a bye to the quarterfinals.

Seed School Conference Overall Tiebreaker
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
‡ – American Athletic Conference regular season champions.
# – Received a first-round bye in the conference tournament.
Overall record are as of the end of the regular season.

Schedule

All tournament games are nationally televised on an ESPN network:

Session Game Time* Matchup# Television Attendance
First Round – Friday, March 4
1
1
4:00 PM
#8 vs. #9
ESPN3
2
6:00 PM
#7 vs. #10
3
8:00 PM
#6 vs. #11
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 5
2
4
12:00 PM
#4 vs. #5
ESPN3
5
2:00 PM
#1 vs. Winner of Game 1
3
6
6:00 PM
#2 vs. Winner of Game 2
7
8:00 PM
#3 vs. Winner of Game 3
Semifinals – Sunday, March 8
4
8
5:30 PM
Winner of Game 4 vs. Winner of Game 6
ESPNU
9
7:30 PM
Winner of Game 6 vs. Winner of Game 7
Championship Game – Monday, March 7
5
10
7:00 PM
Winner of Game 8 vs. Winner of Game 8
ESPN
*Game Times in EST. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

  First Round
Friday, March 4		 Quarterfinals
Saturday, March 5		 Semifinals
Sunday, March 6		 Championship Game
Monday, March 7
                                     
        
  1       
          
8     
9       
        
        
        
        
  4     
    5       
      
        
      
      
        
        
  2     
          
7     
10       
      
        
        
        
  3     
          
6     
11       

References

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