2020 Conference USA women's basketball tournament

2020 Conference USA women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2019–20
Teams	12
Site	The Ford Center at The Star Frisco, Texas
Television	ESPN+, Stadium, CBSSN
Conference USA women's basketball tournaments

2019–20 Conference USA women's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Rice	16	–	2		.889			21	–	8		.724
Old Dominion	14	–	4		.778			24	–	6		.800
Western Kentucky	14	–	4		.778			22	–	7		.759
Middle Tennessee	13	–	5		.722			21	–	9		.700
UAB	12	–	6		.667			20	–	10		.667
Charlotte	11	–	7		.611			20	–	9		.690
UTEP	8	–	10		.444			15	–	14		.517
Southern Miss	7	–	11		.389			15	–	15		.500
Florida Atlantic	7	–	11		.389			13	–	16		.448
Marshall	7	–	11		.389			13	–	17		.433
Louisiana Tech	6	–	12		.333			14	–	15		.483
North Texas	6	–	12		.333			12	–	18		.400
FIU	3	–	15		.167			6	–	23		.207
UTSA	2	–	16		.111			6	–	23		.207
† 2020 C-USA Tournament winner As of December 25, 2024 Rankings from AP poll

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. On March 12, the NCAA announced that the tournament was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Seeds

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
1	Rice	16–2	21–8
2	Old Dominion	14–4	24–6
3	Western Kentucky	14–4	22–7
4	Middle Tennessee State	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 Mississippi	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.

Schedule

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup#	Score	Television
First round – Wednesday, March 11
1	1	11:00 am	#8 Marshall vs. #9 Southern Miss	71–67	ESPN+
	2	11:30 am	#5 UAB vs. #12 Louisiana Tech	63–66
2	3	1:30 pm	#7 UTEP vs. #10 Florida Atlantic	95–67
	4	2:00 pm	#6 Charlotte vs. #11 North Texas	71–67
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 12
3	5		#1 Rice vs. #8 Marshall	Cancelled
	6		#4 MTSU vs. #12 Louisiana Tech	Cancelled
4	7		#2 Old Dominion vs. #7 UTEP	Cancelled
	8		#3 Western Kentucky vs. #6 Charlotte	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

Bracket

	First round Wednesday, March 11 ESPN+					Quarterfinals Thursday, March 12 ESPN+/Stadium					Semifinals Friday, March 13 Stadium					Championship Game Saturday, March 14 CBSSN
						1	Rice
						8	Marshall
	8	Marshall	71*
	9	Southern Miss	67
						4	MTSU
						12	Louisiana Tech
	5	UAB	63
	12	Louisiana Tech	66
						2	Old Dominion
						7	UTEP
	7	UTEP	95
	10	Florida Atlantic	67
						3	Western Kentucky
						6	Charlotte
	6	Charlotte	71
	11	North Texas	67

All times listed are Central. * denotes overtime.

See also

2020 Conference USA men's basketball tournament