Английская Википедия:2016–17 Conference USA men's basketball season

The 2016–17 Conference USA men's basketball season began with practices in October 2016, followed by the start of the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in November. Conference play began in late December and concluded in early March.

Middle Tennessee claimed the outright regular season championship with a win over UAB on February 26, 2017.^[1] Louisiana Tech finished in second place in the regular season, three games behind the Blue Raiders.

Middle Tennessee's JaCorey Williams was named C-USA Player of the Year^[2] and Kermit Davis was named the Coach of the Year.^[3]

The C-USA tournament was held from March 8 through 11, 2017 at Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama. Middle Tennessee defeated Marshall to win the tournament championship for the second consecutive year. As a result, the Blue Raiders received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. No other C-USA school received an NCAA Tournament bid. Rice received a bid to the College Basketball Invitational tournament.

Head coaches

Coaching changes

On March 10, 2016, after 10 years with UTSA, head coach Brooks Thompson was fired.^[4] He finished at UTSA with a record of 130–176. On April 1, the school hired Steve Henson as head coach.^[5]

On March 17, 2016, WKU head coach Ray Harper resigned after three players were suspended by a university disciplinary committee.^[6]^[7]^[8] He finished at WKU with a record of 90–62. On March 28, the school hired Rick Stansbury as head coach.^[9]

UAB head coach Jerod Haase left UAB to accept the head coaching position at Stanford.^[10] On April 4, 2016, the school hired Robert Ehsan, who had been an assistant under Haase at UAB, as head coach .^[11]

Coaches

Team	Head coach	Previous job	Year at school	Overall record	C-USA record	C-USA championships	NCAA Tournaments
style=Шаблон:NCAA color cell \|Charlotte	Mark Price	Charlotte Bobcats (asst.)	2	27–36	16–20	0	0
style=Шаблон:CollegePrimaryStyle \|FIU	Anthony Evans	Norfolk State	4	51–76	25–45	0	0
style=Шаблон:NCAA color cell \|Florida Atlantic	Michael Curry	Philadelphia 76ers (asst.)	3	27–64	13–41	0	0
style=Шаблон:NCAA color cell \|Louisiana Tech	Eric Konkol	Miami (asst.)	2	46–20	26–10	0	0
style=Шаблон:NCAA color cell \|Marshall	Dan D'Antoni	Los Angeles Lakers (asst.)	3	48–52	29–25	0	0
style=Шаблон:NCAA color cell \|Middle Tennessee	Kermit Davis	LSU (asst.)	15	307–179	52–18	2	2
style=Шаблон:NCAA color cell \|North Texas	Tony Benford	Marquette (assoc. head coach)	5	62–95	23–49	0	0
style=Шаблон:CollegePrimaryStyle \|Old Dominion	Jeff Jones	American	4	89–51	46–24	0	0
style=Шаблон:NCAA color cell \|Rice	Mike Rhoades	VCU (assoc. head coach)	3	47–52	26–28	0	0
style=Шаблон:CollegePrimaryStyle \|Southern Miss	Doc Sadler	Iowa State (asst.)	3	20–63	14–39	0	0
style=Шаблон:NCAA color cell \|UAB	Robert Ehsan	UAB (asst.)	1	17–16	9–9	0	0
style=Шаблон:CollegePrimaryStyle \|UTEP	Tim Floyd	USC	7	135–81	75–41	0	0
style=Шаблон:CollegePrimaryStyle \|UTSA	Steve Henson	Oklahoma (asst.)	1	14–19	7–11	0	0
style=Шаблон:NCAA color cell\|WKU	Rick Stansbury	Texas A&M (asst.)	1	15–17	9–9	0	0

Notes:

All records, appearances, titles, etc. are from time with current school only.
Year at school includes 2016–17 season.
Overall and C-USA records are from time at current school and are through the end of the 2016–17 season.

Preseason

Preseason Coaches Poll

Source^[12]

Rank	Team
1.	UAB (10)
2.	Middle Tennessee (4)
3.	WKU
4.	Marshall
5.	Old Dominion
6.	UTEP
7.	Louisiana Tech
8.	Charlotte
9.	Rice
10.	North Texas
11.	FIU
12.	Florida Atlantic
13.	Southern Miss
14.	UTSA

() first place votes

Preseason All-C-USA Team

Source^[12]

Recipient	School
Jeremy Combs	North Texas
Chris Cokley	UAB
Jon Elmore	Marshall
Justin Johnson	WKU
William Lee	UAB
Erik McCree	Louisiana Tech
Giddy Potts	Middle Tennessee
Ryan Taylor	Marshall
Reggie Upshaw Jr.	Middle Tennessee

Conference schedules

Conference matrix

This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play.

	style=Шаблон:NCAA color cell width=75\|Charlotte	style=Шаблон:CollegePrimaryStyle width=75\|FIU	style=Шаблон:NCAA color cell width=75\|FAU	style=Шаблон:NCAA color cell width=75\|LaTech	style=Шаблон:NCAA color cell width=75\|Marshall	style=Шаблон:NCAA color cell width=75\|MTSU	style=Шаблон:NCAA color cell width=75\|UNT	style=Шаблон:CollegePrimaryStyle width=75\|ODU	style=Шаблон:NCAA color cell width=75\|Rice	style=Шаблон:CollegePrimaryStyle width=75\|USM	style=Шаблон:NCAA color cell width=75\|UAB	style=Шаблон:CollegePrimaryStyle width=75\|UTEP	style=Шаблон:CollegePrimaryStyle width=75\|UTSA	style=Шаблон:NCAA color cell width=75\|WKU
vs. Charlotte	–	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–2	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–1
vs. FIU	1–0	–	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–2	2–0	2–0	1–0
vs. Florida Atlantic	0–1	0–2	–	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–0
vs. Louisiana Tech	0–1	0–1	0–1	–	0–1	1–0	0–2	0–1	1–1	0–2	1–0	0–2	1–1	0–1
vs. Marshall	0–2	0–1	0–1	1–0	–	2–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–2
vs. Middle Tennessee	0–1	0–2	0–2	0–1	0–2	–	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–2	1–0	0–1	0–2
vs. North Texas	2–0	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	–	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0
vs. Old Dominion	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–2	–	0–2	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–2
vs. Rice	0–2	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	0–2	2–0	–	0–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0
vs. Southern Miss	1–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–2	1–0	2–0	–	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–0
vs. UAB	1–0	2–0	0–2	0–1	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–1	–	1–0	1–0	1–1
vs. UTEP	0–1	0–2	0–2	2–0	0–1	0–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	–	1–1	1–0
vs. UTSA	0–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	–	1–0
vs. WKU	1–1	0–1	0–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	0–1	2–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	0–1	–
Total	7–11	3–15	6–12	14–4	10–8	17–1	2–16	12–6	11–7	6–12	9–9	12–6	8–10	9–9

Players of the Week

Throughout the conference regular season, the C-USA offices named one or two players of the week and one or two freshmen of the week each Monday.^[13]

Week	Player of the week	Freshman of the week
November 14, 2016	Egor Koulechov, Rice	DaQuan Bracey, Louisiana Tech
November 21, 2016	Dominic Artis, UTEP	Byron Frohnen, UTSA
November 28, 2016	JaCorey Williams, Middle Tennessee	Jailyn Ingram, Florida Atlantic
December 5, 2016	Marcus Evans, Rice	Najee Garvin, Charlotte
December 12, 2016	Jon Elmore, Marshall	Deon Barrett, UTEP
December 19, 2016	JaCorey Williams (2), Middle Tennessee	A. J. Lawson, North Texas
December 26, 2016	Stevie Browning, Marshall	Byron Frohnen (2), UTSA
December 26, 2016	Stevie Browning, Marshall	Jalen Harris, Louisiana Tech
January 2, 2017	Reggie Upshaw Jr., Middle Tennessee	Quentin Jackson Jr., Charlotte
January 9, 2017	Ryan Taylor, Marshall	Giovanni De Nicolao, UTSA
January 16, 2017	William Lee, UAB	DaQuan Bracey (2), Louisiana Tech
January 23, 2017	Jon Davis, Charlotte	DaQuan Bracey (3), Louisiana Tech
January 30, 2017	Matt Willms, UTEP	Byron Frohnen (3), UTSA
February 6, 2017	Justin Johnson, WKU	A. J. Lawson (2), North Texas
February 13, 2017	Marcus Evans (2), Rice	Ryan Woolridge, North Texas
February 20, 2017	Paul Thomas, UTEP	Ryan Woolridge (2), North Texas
February 27, 2017	Quinton Campbell, Southern Miss	A.J. Lawson (3), North Texas
March 6, 2017	Egor Koulechov (2), Rice	Jalen Harris (2), Louisiana Tech

All-C-USA honors and awards

Following the regular season, the conference selected outstanding performers based on a poll of league coaches.^[14]^[15]

Honor	Recipient
Player of the Year	JaCorey Williams, Middle Tennessee
Coach of the Year	Kermit Davis, Middle Tennessee
Defensive Player of the Year	William Lee, UAB
Freshman of the Year	DaQuan Bracey, Louisiana Tech
Newcomer of the Year	JaCorey Williams, Middle Tennessee
Sixth Man of the Year	Zoran Talley, Old Dominion
All-C-USA First Team	Erik McCree, Louisiana Tech
	Jon Elmore, Marshall
	JaCorey Williams, Middle Tennessee
	Marcus Evans, Rice
	Egor Koulechov, Rice
All-C-USA Second Team	Jon Davis, Charlotte
	Reggie Upshaw Jr., Middle Tennessee
	William Lee, UAB
	Dominic Artis, UTEP
	Justin Johnson, WKU
All-C-USA Third Team	Jacobi Boykins, Louisiana Tech
	Ryan Taylor, Marshall
	Giddy Potts, Middle Tennessee
	Ahmad Caver, Old Dominion
	Omega Harris, UTEP
All-C-USA Defensive Team	Jacobi Boykins, Louisiana Tech
	Ryan Taylor, Marshall
	Reggie Upshaw Jr., Middle Tennessee
	Denzell Taylor, Old Dominion
	William Lee, UAB
All-C-USA Freshman Team	DaQuan Bracey, Louisiana Tech
	Jalen Harris, Louisiana Tech
	Tyrik Dixon, Middle Tennessee
	A. J. Lawson, North Texas
	Byron Frohnen, UTSA

Postseason

C-USA Tournament

Шаблон:Main Only the top 12 conference teams were eligible for the tournament.

Game	Time*	Matchup^#	Score	Television	Attendance
First round – Wednesday, March 8
1	11:30 am	No. 8 Western Kentucky vs. No. 9 UTSA	52–56	Campus Insiders	3,207
2	2:00 pm	No. 5 Rice vs. No. 12 Southern Miss	86–75		3,207
3	5:30 pm	No. 7 UAB vs. No. 10 Charlotte	74–73		6,410
4	8:00 pm	No. 6 Marshall vs. No. 11 Florida Atlantic	89–74		6,410
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 9
5	11:30 am	No. 1 Middle Tennessee vs. No. 9 UTSA	86–70	ASN	3,654
6	2:00 pm	No. 4 UTEP vs. No. 5 Rice	86–76		3,654
7	5:30 pm	No. 2 Louisiana Tech vs. No. 7 UAB	69–57		4,005
8	8:00 pm	No. 3 Old Dominion vs. No. 6 Marshall	63–64		4,005
Semifinals – Friday, March 10
9	11:30 am	No. 1 Middle Tennessee vs. No. 4 UTEP	82–56	CBSSN	3,299
10	2:00 pm	No. 2 Louisiana Tech vs. No. 6 Marshall	77–93	CBSSN	3,299
Championship Game – Saturday, March 11
11	7:30 pm	No. 1 Middle Tennessee vs. No. 6 Marshall	83–72	CBSSN	3,956
*Game times in CT. Rankings denote tournament seed

NCAA tournament

Шаблон:Main

Seed	Region	School	First Four	First Round	Second Round	Sweet 16	Elite Eight	Final Four	Championship
12	South	Middle Tennessee	N/A	defeated (5) Minnesota 81–72	eliminated by (4) Butler 65–74

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