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2017 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament

2017 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2016–17
Teams 12
Site Legacy Arena
Birmingham, Alabama
Champions Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders (2nd title)
Winning coach Kermit Davis (2nd title)
MVP Giddy Potts (Middle Tennessee)
Television ASN, CBSSN
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2016–17 Conference USA men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Middle Tennessee 17 1   .944     31 5   .861
Louisiana Tech 14 4   .778     23 10   .697
Old Dominion 12 6   .667     19 12   .613
UTEP 12 6   .667     15 17   .469
Rice 11 7   .611     23 12   .657
Marshall 10 8   .556     20 15   .571
UAB 9 9   .500     17 16   .515
WKU 9 9   .500     15 17   .469
UTSA 8 10   .444     14 19   .424
Charlotte 7 11   .389     13 17   .433
Florida Atlantic 6 12   .333     10 20   .333
Southern Miss 6 12   .333     9 22   .290
FIU 3 15   .167     7 24   .226
North Texas 2 16   .111     8 22   .267
2017 C-USA Tournament winner

The 2017 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 8–11, 2017, in Birmingham, Alabama, at Legacy Arena. Middle Tennessee received the conference automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Tournament with an 83-72 win over Marshall in the finals.

Only 12 conference teams are eligible for the tournament. As a result, the top 4 teams receive a bye to the quarterfinals of the tournament.

Teams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.


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