2017 American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament

2017 American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 201617
Teams 11
Site Mohegan Sun Arena
Uncasville, Connecticut
Television ESPNU, ESPN2, ESPN3
American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournaments
«2016  2018»
2016–17 American Athletic Conference women's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
#2 Connecticut 0 0       6 0   1.000
South Florida 0 0       6 0   1.000
Cincinnati 0 0       6 1   .857
UCF 0 0       6 2   .750
Tulane 0 0       5 2   .714
East Carolina 0 0       6 3   .667
SMU 0 0       5 3   .625
Temple 0 0       3 2   .600
Memphis 0 0       3 4   .429
Tulsa 0 0       3 5   .375
Houston 0 0       2 4   .333
American Tournament winner
As of December 4, 2016; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2017 American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament is an upcoming postseason tournament, which will be held from March 3–6, 2017 in the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.

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.

Seed School Conference Overall Tiebreaker
1
2 #
3 #
4 #
5 #
6
7
8
9
10
11
‡ – 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:

Session Game Time* Matchup# Television Attendance
First Round – Friday, March 3
1
1
4:00 PM
#8 vs. #9
ESPN3
2
6:00 PM
#7 vs. #10
3
8:00 PM
#6 vs. #11
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 4
2
4
12:00 PM
#4 vs. #5
ESPN3
5
2:00 PM
#1 vs. Winner of game 1
3
6
6:00 PM
#2 vs. Winner of game 2
7
8:00 PM
#3 vs. Winner of game 3
Semifinals – Sunday, March 5
4
8
5:00 PM
Winner of game 4 vs. Winner of game 5
ESPN2
9
7:30 PM
Winner of game 6 vs. Winner of game 7
ESPNU
Championship Game – Monday, March 6
5
10
7:00 PM
Winner of game 8 vs. Winner of game 9
ESPN2
*Game Times in EST. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

[1]

  First Round
Friday, March 3
Quarterfinals
Saturday, March 4
Semifinals
Sunday, March 5
Championship Game
Monday, March 6
                                     
        
  1       
          
8     
9       
        
        
        
        
  4     
    5       
      
        
      
      
        
        
  2     
          
7     
10       
      
        
        
        
  3     
          
6     
11       

Note: * denotes overtime

See also

References

  1. "2017 American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament Bracket" (PDF). TheAmerican.org. SideArmSports. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
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