2016 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament

2016 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2015–16
Teams 13
Site Legacy Arena
Birmingham, Alabama
Television ASN, CBSSN, FS1
Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournaments
«2015  2017»
2015–16 Conference USA men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
UAB 11 – 2   .846     21 – 5   .808
Middle Tennessee 10 – 3   .769     18 – 7   .720
Marshall 9 – 3   .750     13 – 12   .520
Louisiana Tech 8 – 4   .667     19 – 6   .760
Old Dominion 7 – 5   .583     14 – 11   .560
UTEP 7 – 6   .538     15 – 11   .577
Charlotte 6 – 6   .500     9 – 15   .375
FIU 6 – 7   .462     12 – 14   .462
Florida Atlantic 5 – 8   .385     7 – 19   .269
WKU 4 – 8   .333     12 – 13   .480
Rice 4 – 8   .333     9 – 16   .360
North Texas 4 – 8   .333     9 – 16   .360
Southern Miss* 4 – 8   .333     7 – 16   .304
UTSA 2 – 11   .154     4 – 22   .154
*Ineligible for postseason play due to self-imposed postseason ban.
† 2016 C-USA Tournament winner
As of February 14, 2016; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2016 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament is an upcoming post-season men's basketball tournament for Conference USA, held March 8–12, 2016, in Birmingham, Alabama, at Legacy Arena.[1][2] There will only be 13 teams competing in the 2016 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament instead of the traditional 14 teams. Southern Miss self-imposed a postseason ban on themselves in early November[3].

Seeds

Seed School Conference Overall Tiebreaker
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
‡ – 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 C–USA Tournament.

Schedule

Game Time* Matchup# Final Score Television Attendance
First round – Tuesday, March 8
1 12:00 pm #12 vs. #13 ASN
2 2:30 pm #11 vs. #14
Second round – Wednesday, March 9
3 12:00 pm #8 vs. #9 ASN
4 2:30 pm #5 vs. Winner of Game 1
5 6:00 pm #7 vs. #10
6 8:30 pm #6 vs. Winner of Game 2
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 10
7 12:00 pm #2 vs. Winner of Game 3 ASN
8 2:30 pm #3 vs. Winner of Game 4
9 6:00 pm #4 vs. Winner of Game 5
10 8:30 pm #1 vs Winner of Game 6
Semifinals – Friday, March 11
11 4:00 pm Winner of Game 7 vs Winner of Game 8 CBSSN
12 6:30 pm Winner of Game 9 vs Winner of Game 10
Championship – Saturday, March 12
13 2:30 pm Winner of Game 11 vs Winner of Game 12 FS1
*Game times in CT. #-Rankings denote tournament seed

Bracket

  First Round
Tuesday, March 8
ASN		 Second Round
Wednesday, March 9
ASN		 Quarterfinals
Thursday, March 10
ASN		 Semifinals
Friday, March 11
CBSSN		 Championship Game
Saturday, March 12
FS1
                                               
1       
          
8     
9       
        
        
4     
          
5     
          
12     
13       
    
    
2       
          
7     
10       
      
        
3     
          
6     
    11       
11     
14       

See also

References

  1. ↑ "C-USA Basketball Championships to Return to Birmingham", Conference USA, September 30, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Conference USA Official Athletic Site - Men's Basketball". Conference USA. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
  3. ↑ Norlander, Matt. "Southern Miss self-imposes postseason ban for 2nd straight year". CBSSports.com. CBS INTERACTIVE. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
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