Year: | 2020 |
Conference: | Conference USA |
Division: | I |
Gender: | Women's |
Teams: | 12 |
Arena: | The Ford Center at The Star |
City: | Frisco, Texas |
Television: | ESPN+, Stadium, CBSSN |
The 2020 Conference USA women's basketball tournament was to be a postseason women's basketball tournament for Conference USA that was to be held at The Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, from March 11 through March 14, 2020. In the first round and quarterfinals, two games were to be played simultaneously within the same arena, with the courts separated by a curtain.[1] On March 12, the NCAA announced that the tournament was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.[2]
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 |
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1 | Rice‡# | 16–2 | 21–8 | |
2 | Old Dominion# | 14–4 | 24–6 | |
3 | Western Kentucky# | 14–4 | 22–7 | |
4 | Middle Tennessee# | 13–5 | 21–9 | |
5 | UAB | 12–6 | 21–10 | |
6 | Charlotte | 11–7 | 20–9 | |
7 | UTEP | 8–10 | 15–14 | |
8 | Marshall | 7–11 | 12–17 | |
9 | Southern Miss | 7–11 | 15–14 | |
10 | Florida Atlantic | 7–11 | 13–16 | |
11 | North Texas | 6–12 | 12–18 | |
12 | Louisiana Tech | 6–12 | 14–15 | |
‡ – 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. |
Session | Game | Time* | Matchup# | Score | Television |
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First round – Wednesday, March 11 | |||||
1 | 1 | 11:00 am |
| 71–67 | ESPN+ |
2 | 11:30 am |
| 63–66 | ||
2 | 3 | 1:30 pm |
| 95–67 | |
4 | 2:00 pm |
| 71–67 | ||
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 12 | |||||
3 | 5 |
| Cancelled | ||
6 |
| Cancelled | |||
4 | 7 |
| Cancelled | ||
8 |
| Cancelled | |||
Semifinals – Friday, March 13 | |||||
5 | 9 | Game 5 winner vs. Game 6 winner | Cancelled | ||
10 | Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 winner | Cancelled | |||
Championship – Saturday, March 14 | |||||
6 | 11 | Game 9 winner vs. Game 10 winner | Cancelled | ||
*Game times in CT. #-Rankings denote tournament seed|}BracketAll times listed are Central. * denotes overtime. See also2020 Conference USA men's basketball tournament References] |