The 2016 American Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament was a tournament held March 4–7 in the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. Connecticut won their third straight American Athletic Conference title by defeating South Florida and earn an automatic trip to the NCAA women's basketball tournament.
Seeds All the teams in the American Athletic Conference qualified for the tournament. Teams were seeded based on conference record, and then a tiebreaker system was used. Teams seeded 6–11 played in the opening round, and teams seeded 1–5 received a bye to the quarterfinals.
SeedSchoolConferenceOverallTiebreaker1Connecticut ‡18–029–02South Florida #14–421–83Temple #13–519–104Memphis #12–618–115Tulane #11–720–106Tulsa8–1011–187SMU7–1112–178East Carolina6–1212–189Cincinnati4–148–210–1 vs. Tulane 10UCF4–147–220–2 vs. Tulane 11Houston2–166–23‡ – American Athletic Conference regular season champions.# – Received a first-round bye in the conference tournament. Overall record are as of the end of the regular season.
Schedule All tournament games are nationally televised on an ESPN network:
SessionGameTime*Matchup#TelevisionAttendance First round – Friday, March 4 1 1 4:00 PM #8 East Carolina vs. #9 Cincinnati ESPN3 4,480 2 6:00 PM #7 SMU vs. #10 UCF 3 8:00 PM #6 Tulsa vs. #11 Houston Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 5 2 4 12:00 PM #4 Memphis vs. #5 Tulane ESPN3 7,033 5 2:00 PM #1 Connecticut vs. #8 East Carolina 3 6 6:00 PM #2 South Florida vs. #7 SMU 5,071 7 8:00 PM #3 Temple vs. #6 Tulsa Semifinals – Sunday, March 6 4 8 4:30 PM #5 Tulane vs. #1 Connecticut ESPNU 6,821 9 6:30 PM #2 South Florida vs. #3 Temple Championship Game – Monday, March 7 5 10 7:00 PM #1 Connecticut vs. #2 South Florida ESPN2 7,073 *Game Times in EST. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.
Bracket
Note: * denotes overtime
See also 2016 American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament
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