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2016 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament

2016 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2015–16
Teams 13
Site Legacy Arena
Birmingham, Alabama
Champions Middle Tennessee (1st title)
Winning coach Kermit Davis (1st title)
MVP Reggie Upshaw (Middle Tennessee)
Attendance 33,438
Television ASN, CBSSN, FS1
Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournaments
«2015  2017»
2015–16 Conference USA men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
UAB 16 2   .889     26 7   .788
Middle Tennessee 13 5   .722     25 10   .714
Marshall 12 6   .667     17 16   .515
Louisiana Tech 12 6   .667     23 10   .697
Old Dominion 12 6   .667     25 13   .658
UTEP 10 8   .556     19 14   .576
Charlotte 9 9   .500     14 19   .424
WKU 8 10   .444     18 16   .529
North Texas 7 11   .389     12 20   .375
Rice 7 11   .389     12 20   .375
FIU 7 11   .389     13 19   .406
Florida Atlantic 5 13   .278     8 25   .242
Southern Miss* 5 13   .278     8 21   .276
UTSA 3 15   .167     5 27   .156
*Ineligible for postseason play due to self-imposed postseason ban.
2016 C-USA Tournament winner

The 2016 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament was held from March 8–12, 2016, in Birmingham, Alabama, at Legacy Arena.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.

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. Teams will reseed after the quarterfinals.


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