2018–19 Conference USA men's basketball season

2018–19 Conference USA men's basketball season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Basketball
Number of teams	14
TV partner(s)	CBS Sports Network, Stadium, beIN Sports, ESPN3
2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
Tournament

2018–19 Conference USA men's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Old Dominion †	13	–	5		.722			26	–	9		.743
Western Kentucky	11	–	7		.611			20	–	14		.588
Southern Miss	11	–	7		.611			20	–	13		.606
UTSA	11	–	7		.611			17	–	15		.531
UAB	10	–	8		.556			20	–	15		.571
Marshall	11	–	7		.611			23	–	14		.622
FIU	10	–	8		.556			20	–	13		.606
Louisiana Tech	9	–	9		.500			20	–	13		.606
Florida Atlantic	8	–	10		.444			17	–	16		.515
North Texas	8	–	10		.444			21	–	12		.636
Rice	8	–	10		.444			13	–	19		.406
Middle Tennessee	8	–	10		.444			11	–	21		.344
Charlotte	5	–	13		.278			8	–	21		.276
UTEP	3	–	15		.167			8	–	21		.276
† 2019 C-USA tournament winner

The 2018–19 Conference USA men's basketball season will begin with practices in October 2018, followed by the start of the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in November. Conference play will begin in late December and conclude in early March.

The C-USA Tournament will be held from March 13–16, 2019 at the The Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas.

Middle Tennessee is the two-time defending regular season champions while Marshall is the defending C-USA Tournament champions.

The conference will use a regular season schedule format whereby the 14 teams will play each other once with a second game for travel partners in the first seven weeks of C-USA play. After those 14 games, the league standings will determine the matchups for the rest of the regular season. The teams will then be divided into two groups of five (teams in first through fifth place and 6–10) and a group of four (11–14). During the final three weeks, teams will play within their respective grouping for the last four games of conference play. Home and away games within the groups will be determined by a preset formula.C-USA Commissioner Judy MacLeod said that "With the goals to improve seeding and increase the number of teams that advance to the postseason, we viewed this as a great opportunity to enhance our top teams’ resumes by providing them additional quality games within their conference schedule."

Head coaches

Coaches

Team	Head coach	Previous job	Year at school	Overall record	C-USA record	C-USA championships	NCAA Tournaments
Charlotte	Houston Fancher (interim)	Charlotte (asst.)	0	3–17	2–16	0	0
FIU	Anthony Evans	Norfolk State	5	65–94	33–55	0	0
Florida Atlantic	Michael Curry	Philadelphia 76ers (asst.)	4	39–84	19–53	0	0
Louisiana Tech	Eric Konkol	Miami (asst.)	3	63–36	33–21	0	0
Marshall	Dan D'Antoni	Los Angeles Lakers (asst.)	4	73–63	41–31	1	1
Middle Tennessee	Kermit Davis	LSU (asst.)	16	332–188	68–20	2	2
North Texas	Grant McCasland	Arkansas State	1	18–17	8–10	0	0
Old Dominion	Jeff Jones	American	5	114–58	61–27	0	0
Rice	Scott Pera	Rice (asst.)	1	7–24	4–14	0	0
Southern Miss	Doc Sadler	Iowa State (asst.)	4	38–81	21–50	0	0
UAB	Robert Ehsan	UAB (asst.)	2	37–29	19–17	0	0
UTEP	Phil Johnson (interim)	UTEP (asst.)	0	10–15	6–12	0	0
UTSA	Steve Henson	Oklahoma (asst.)	3	34–33	18–18	0	0
WKU	Rick Stansbury	Texas A&M (asst.)	2	42–27	23–13	0	0

Notes:

• All records, appearances, titles, etc. are from time with current school only.
• Year at school includes 2017–18 season.
• Overall and C-USA records are from time at current school and are through the end of the 2017–18 season.

Regular season

Conference matrix

This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play.

	Charlotte	FIU	FAU	LaTech	Marshall	MTSU	UNT	ODU	Rice	USM	UAB	UTEP	UTSA	WKU
vs. Charlotte	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. FIU	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Florida Atlantic	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Louisiana Tech	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Marshall	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Middle Tennessee	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. North Texas	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Old Dominion	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Rice	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Southern Miss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. UAB	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. UTEP	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0
vs. UTSA	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0
vs. WKU	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–
Total	2–16	8–10	6–12	7–11	12–6	16–2	8–10	15–3	4–14	7–11	10–8	6–12	11–7	14–4

Postseason

C-USA Tournament

Main article: 2019 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament

Only the top 12 conference teams will be eligible for the tournament.