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Women’s Basketball 2016-17 SEASON e Weekly Notebook (2016-17 FINAL) Contact: Tim McNamara e [email protected] e 214.774.1353 STANDINGS Team C-USA Pct. H A Overall Pct. H A N L-10 Streak e^ # $ (RV) WKU 16-2 .889 9-0 6-2 27-7 .794 14-1 9-3 4-3 9-1 L 1 e^Middle Tennessee 15-3 .833 8-1 6-2 23-11 .676 13-5 9-5 1-1 7-3 L 1 e^Southern Miss 13-5 .722 7-1 5-4 23-11 .676 14-3 6-5 3-3 8-2 L 2 e^Louisiana Tech 12-6 .667 7-2 5-3 18-14 .562 10-5 7-8 1-1 8-2 L 2 eCharlotte 12-6 .667 4-4 7-2 21-10 .677 10-4 10-3 1-3 5-5 L 1 eOld Dominion 11-7 .611 5-3 6-3 17-14 .548 10-5 6-6 1-3 6-4 L 1 eUTSA 10-8 .556 5-4 4-4 14-16 .467 9-8 5-7 0-1 4-6 L 1 eNorth Texas 8-10 .444 4-4 4-5 12-19 .387 6-7 5-9 1-3 5-5 L 1 eUAB 8-10 .444 5-4 2-6 15-15 .500 9-6 5-8 1-1 5-5 L 1 eRice 8-10 .444 4-4 4-5 22-13 .629 13-5 8-7 1-1 6-4 W 4 eMarshall 5-13 .278 3-6 1-7 13-17 .433 9-6 3-9 1-2 1-9 L 1 eUTEP 5-13 .278 4-5 1-7 8-23 .258 7-8 1-10 0-5 2-8 L 3 FIU 3-15 .167 2-6 1-8 5-24 .172 4-14 1-10 0-0 0-10 L 10 Florida Atlantic 0-18 .000 0-8 0-9 4-25 .138 4-12 0-13 0-0 0-10 L 19 eC-USA Championship Berth ^ Clinched First-Round Bye # Clinched Regular-Season Title $ Tournament Champion RECENT RESULTS UPCOMING SCHEDULE Sunday, March 26 Monday, March 27 at Rice 74, UNC-Greensboro 62 Another wonderful season of C-USA women’s basketball in the books! Thanks to everyone who covered the league! Thursday, March 23 -Tim at Rice 86, Idaho 80 (WBI) at Georgia Tech 70, Middle Tennessee 57 (WNIT) Sunday, March 19 at Rice 73, UTRGV 63 (WBI) at Middle Tennessee 73, Wake Forest 66 (WNIT) Friday, March 17 (5) Ohio State 70, (12) WKU 63 (NCAA) at SMU 75, Louisiana Tech 70 (WNIT) Thursday, March 16 at Rice 73, Lamar 72 (WBI) at Middle Tennessee 67, Morehead St. 58 (WNIT) Wednesday, March 15 Little Rock 72, at Southern Miss 62 (WNIT) Saturday, March 11 - C-USA Championship (1) (RV) WKU 67, (3) Southern Miss 56 Friday, March 10 - C-USA Semifinals (1) (RV) WKU 77, (4) Louisiana Tech 53 (3) Southern Miss 59, (2) Middle Tennessee 54 Women’s Basketball 2016-17 SEASON e Weekly Notebook (2016-17 FINAL) Contact: Tim McNamara e [email protected] e 214.774.1353 WHAT’S UP? Five C-USA Programs Enjoy NCAA National Statistic Rankings Rebounds Per Game Postseason Action National stat rankings -FINAL. 14. Destinee Young, ODU 10.7 WKU - NCAA Tournament TEAM STATS Steals Per Game The Lady Toppers made their 19th ap- Assist Turnover Ratio 12. Loryn Goodwin, UTSA 3.13 pearance in the NCAA Tournament after 13. WKU 1.31 13. Brittanny Dinkins, USM 3.12 winning the 2017 C- USA Championship Assists Per Game Three-Point Field Goals Per Game game against Southern Miss. WKU has 14. Charlotte 16.7 4. Ciara Gregory, CHA 3.42 won at least one game in nine of its 19 Blocked Shots Per Game 10. Rachael Childress, UAB 3.17 previous NCAA appearances and owns 8. Charlotte 5.9 six Sweet Sixteen trips, three Final Fours Fewest Turnovers Double-Doubles Chart and one appearance in the national 4. WKU 371 Name Career Season championship game in 1992. Free Throw Percentage Destinee Young (ODU) 26 15 17. WKU .768 Jasmine LeBlanc (TECH) 10 10 Tamara Seda (UTEP) 10 10 LA Tech - WNIT 19. Middle Tennessee .767 Jennie Simms (ODU) 22 9 Louisiana Tech made its second WNIT Rebound Margin Ivy Brown (WKU) 17 8 in program history. Tech, picked to finish 21. Old Dominion +7.2 Tesha Smith (UTSA) 21 7 12th in the 2016-17 C-USA Preseason Poll, Scoring Margin Grace Hunter (CHA) 14 7 won seven of its last eight regular-sea- 21. WKU +13.1 Kendall Noble (WKU) 23 6 son games to finish fourth in the league. Scoring Offense Jayla King (USM) 6 5 The Lady Techsters only other WNIT 24. WKU 75.1 Nyilah Jamison-Myers (CHA) 5 5 postseason appearance came in 2009. Steals Per Game Alexus Malone (TECH) 5 5 Tech defeated SMU 77-54 in Ruston 20. Southern Miss 10.9 Loryn Goodwin (UTSA) 5 5 before falling at Illinois State. Three-Point Field Goal Percentage Alex Johnson (MT) 4 4 13. UAB .373 Keonna Farmer (UAB) 4 3 Talequia Hamilton (MAR) 4 3 Middle Tennessee - WNIT 21. Middle Tennessee .364 Khadaijia Brooks (MAR) 3 3 Middle Tennessee participated in the Turnover Margin Sparkle Taylor (UTEP) 3 3 women’s basketball postseason for the 14. WKU +6.18 Kiandre’a Pound (FIU) 10 2 12th consecutive year under head coach Turnovers Forced Per Game Ty Petty (MT) 6 2 Rick Insell, and 14th straight overall, after 11. Southern Miss 20.88 Jasmine Goodwine (RICE) 6 2 earning an invitation to play in its fifth Fewest Turnovers Per Game Kristian Hudson (FIU) 3 2 WNIT. The Lady Raiders got to the third 4. WKU 10.9 Janka Hegedus (FIU) 3 2 round, where they fell at Georgia Tech. Win-Lost Percentage Rebecca Reuter (MT) 3 2 20. WKU .794 Raven Doyle (FAU) 2 2 Southern Miss - WNIT Ashley Saintigene (MAR) 2 2 The Lady Eagles made their 14th post- PLAYER STATS Terra Ellison (NT) 2 2 Brittanny Dinkins (USM) 2 2 season appearance. C-USA Coach of the Assist/Turnover Ratio Zuzanna Pac (UTEP) 2 2 Year Joye Lee-McNelis made her eighth 2. Micah Jones, WKU 3.73 Marie Benson (UTSA) 2 2 WNIT appearance and the 12th postsea- Double-Doubles Lefty Webster (CHA) 6 1 son appearance of her career. Southern 23. Destinee Young, ODU 15 Shani Rainey (RICE) 5 1 Miss owns a 7-7 all-time record in the Free Throws Made Reauna Cleaver (TECH) 2 1 WNIT after losing to Little Rock in the 4. Jennie Simms, ODU 203 Katelyn O’Reilly (FAU) 1 1 opening round of the 2017 tournament. 7. Alex Johnson, MT 179 Sasah Cedeno (FAU) 1 1 11. Loryn Goodwin, UTSA 163 Gabby Lyon (MT) 1 1 Rice - WBI Free Throw Percentage Bradley Terriell (NT) 1 1 Rice returned to postseason play in the 24. Ty Petty, MT .863 Tosin Mabodu (NT) 1 1 2017 WBI. The Owls have rattled off Minutes Played Per Game Annika Holopainen (ODU) 2 2 Lauren Grigsby (RICE) 1 1 three consecutive home wins to earn a 4. Ty Petty, MT 38.26 Gabby Ozoude (RICE) 1 1 berth in the tournament championship 24. Kristian Hudson, FIU 36.86 Megan Brown (USM) 1 1 game against Idaho. Rice’s WBI victims Points Per Game Shonte Hailes (USM) 1 1 include Lamar, UTRGV and Idaho. 2. Jennie Simms, ODU 26.0 Respect Leaphart (USM) 1 1 17. Alex Johnson, MT 20.2 Najala Howell (UTEP) 1 1 Women’s Basketball 2016-17 SEASON e Weekly Notebook (2016-17 FINAL) Contact: Tim McNamara e [email protected] e 214.774.1353 2016-17 C-USA WOMEN’S BASKSETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP BRACKET 2017 C-USA Women’s #CUSAWBK #AllDayCUSA Basketball Bracket Event Info March 8-11 Host: UAB First Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship Wednesday, March 8 Thursday, March 9 Friday, March 10 Saturday, March 11 Bartow Arena Bartow Arena Legacy Arena Legacy Arena (1) WKU 78 Game 5 - 12:30 p.m. (1) WKU 77 (8) North Texas 65 Campus Insiders Game 1 - 12:30 p.m. (8) North Texas 51 Campus Insiders Game 9 - 4:30 p.m. (1) WKU 67 ASN (9) UAB 62 (4) Louisiana Tech 66 Game 6 - 3 p.m. (4) Louisiana Tech 53 (5) Charlotte 71 Campus Insiders Game 2 - 3 p.m. (5) Charlotte 55 Campus Insiders Game 11 - 4:30 p.m. CBS Sports Champion (12) Marshall 66 (2) Middle Tennessee 61 Game 7 - 6:30 p.m. (7) UTSA 63 (2) Middle Tennessee 54 Campus Insiders Game 3 - 6:30 p.m. (10) Rice 59 Campus Insiders Game 10 - 7 p.m. (3) Southern Miss 56 ASN (10) Rice 75 (3) Southern Miss 80 Game 8 - 9 p.m. (6) Old Dominion 80 (3) Southern Miss 59 Campus Insiders All Times Central Game 4 - 9 p.m. (6) Old Dominion 74 Campus Insiders (11) UTEP 70 ConferenceUSA.com @CUSAWBK @Conference_USA Women’s Basketball 2016-17 SEASON e Weekly Notebook (2016-17 FINAL) Contact: Tim McNamara e [email protected] e 214.774.1353 POLL PLACE ASSOCIATED PRESS USA TODAY Coaches POLL NCAA RPI VS. CONFERENCE W-L (Postseason) (Postseason Final) (Final) America East 0-0 # School # School # School American 2-8 1 Connecticut (33) 1 South Carolina (32) 38 WKU ACC 1-14 2 Notre Dame 2 Mississippi State 75 Middle Tenessee Atlantic Sun 1-4 Atlantic 10 4-3 3 South Carolina 3 Connecticut 104 Southern Miss Big East 1-3 4 Maryland 4 Stanford 120 Charlotte Big Sky 0-2 5 Baylor 5 Notre Dame 135 Old Dominion Big South 7-0 6 Stanford 6 Baylor 139 Louisiana Tech Big Ten 3-2 7 Mississippi State 7 Florida State 142 Rice Big 12 0-3 8 Oregon State 8 Maryland 184 North Texas Big West 0-0 9 Duke 9 Oregon State 186 UTSA Colonial 2-1 10 Florida State 10 Ohio State 190 UAB Horizon 0-1 11 Ohio State 11 Washington 244 Marshall Ivy 1-0 12 Washington 12 Louisville 300 UTEP MAAC 0-0 13 Louisville 13 UCLA 309 FIU Mid-American 3-1 MEAC 6-1 14 Texas 14 Texas 337 Florida Atlantic Missouri Valley 3-1 15 UCLA 15 Duke Mountain West 0-2 16 Miami 16 Oregon # Conference Northeastern 1-0 17 NC State 17 NC State 14 Conference USA Ohio Valley 5-1 18 Kentucky 18 DePaul Pac-12 1-5 19 DePaul 19 Miami Patriot 0-0 20 Drake 20 West Virginia SEC 0-7 21 Syracuse 21 Oklahoma SoCon 0-3 22 West Virginia 22 Syracuse Southland 11-1 23 Oklahoma 23 Quinnipiac SWAC 9-3 24 Kansas State 24 Drake Summit 0-1 Sun Belt 7-6 25 Missouri 25 Kentucky West Coast 0-0 WAC 2-2 RV - WKU Non-Division I 9-1 TOTAL 79-78 POLL Tracker Follow the progress of C-USA teams in the national polls (Associated Press/USA Today Sports Coaches) PRE N14 N21 N28 D5 D12 D19 D26 J2 J9 CHA --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- RV/ UTEP RV/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/ WKU --/RV --/RV RV/RV --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/ J16 J23 J30 F6 F13 F20 F27 M6 POST FINAL CHA --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- UTEP --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- WKU --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- --/-- RV/ RV/-- --/-- Women’s Basketball 2016-17 SEASON e Weekly Notebook (2016-17 FINAL) Contact: Tim McNamara e [email protected]