The 2016 Conference USA men's basketball tournament was held from March 8–12, 2016, in Birmingham, Alabama, at Legacy Arena."C-USA Basketball Championships to Return to Birmingham" , Conference USA, September 30, 2015. Southern Miss did not participate in the tournament due to a self-imposed a postseason ban for pending NCAA violations. Middle Tennessee won the tournament, receiving the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
Seeds Only 13 conference teams were eligible for the tournament. As a result, the top 11 teams received a bye to the Second Round of the tournament. The top 4 teams received a double bye to the Quarterfinals of the tournament.
Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Seed School Conference Tiebreaker1UAB16–22Middle Tennessee13–53Marshall12–62–1 vs. LA Tech & Old Dominion 4Louisiana Tech12–61–1 vs. Marshall & Old Dominion5Old Dominion12–61–2 vs. LA Tech & Marshall6UTEP10–87Charlotte9–98Western Kentucky8–109North Texas7–112–1 vs. Rice & FIU, 1-1 vs. Louisiana Tech10Rice7–112–1 vs. North Texas & FIU, 0-2 vs. Louisiana Tech11FIU7–110–2 vs. Rice & North Texas12Florida Atlantic5–1313UTSA3–15
Schedule GameTime*Matchup#Final ScoreTelevisionAttendance First round – Tuesday, March 814:00 pm#12 Florida Atlantic vs. #13 UTSA82–58ASN220 Second round – Wednesday, March 9212:00 pm#8 Western Kentucky vs. #9 North Texas84–76ASN3,88832:30 pm#5 Old Dominion vs. #12 Florida Atlantic72–4646:00 pm#7 Charlotte vs. #10 Rice79–693,90558:30 pm#6 UTEP vs. #11 FIU85–77 Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 10612:00 pm#1 UAB vs. #8 Western Kentucky77–88ASN9,79772:30 pm#4 La Tech vs. #5 Old Dominion52–6886:00 pm#2 Middle Tennessee vs. #7 Charlotte79–613,93398:30 pm#3 Marshall vs #6 UTEP87–85 Semifinals – Friday, March 11103:00 pm#5 Old Dominion vs #8 Western Kentucky89–77CBSSN6,176115:30 pm#2 Middle Tennessee vs #3 Marshall99–90 Championship – Saturday, March 12121:30 pm#2 Middle Tennessee vs #5 Old Dominion55–53FS15,519 *Game times in CT. #-Rankings denote tournament seed
Bracket
See also 2016 Conference USA women's basketball tournament
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