AAC Women's Basketball Tournament

[BullyPulpit]

USF tips off as the #1 seed versus Wichita State at 3 pm today. The Bulls beat the Shockers easily by 18 points in their only matchup of the season. Of course, that was the pre-Covid interruption team that looked much better than the post-Covid iteration. WSU is not very good at all and we should win this one going away. The biggest advantage of the #1 seed is that UCF and Houston will have to battle it out and USF only has to beat one of them to win the conference. A win over WSU and USF will be playing Tulane in the semifinals. USF beat Tulane by 19 pre-Covid interruption and by 9 in a much closer matchup post-Covid interruption. 

Edited March 9, 2021 by BullyPulpit

[Brad]

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No. 15 USF Earns Top Seed in Upcoming AAC Tourney

The No. 1-seeded Bulls will face the winner of the Tulsa-Wichita State first-round game on March 9 at 3 p.m. ET.

IRVING, Texas (March 5, 2021) – For the first time in program history, the University of South Florida has earned the top billing in a conference tournament and is the No. 1 seed in the 2021 Air Force Reserve American Athletic Conference Women’s Basketball Championship bracket. The Bulls and nine other members of The American will square off in this season’s women’s basketball championship on March 8-11 at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth.

 

USF, who earned a bye into the quarterfinals, will face the winner of Monday’s first-round game between eighth-seeded Tulsa and ninth-seeded Wichita State, on Tuesday at 3 p.m. ET. The game can be seen live on ESPN+.

 

Click here for the American Athletic Conference Tournament Central page.

Click here for a printable tournament bracket.

 

The Bulls finished the regular season with a 15-3 overall record and a 13-3* slate in The American. The Bulls are 12-7 all-time in the AAC Tournament and have advanced to at least the semifinal round in each of the previous seven tournaments and to the championship game four times (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018).

 

* The American has declared a forfeit win for USF against Memphis for conference-standings purposes only as a result of the scheduled game from Jan. 17 that was not played. The teams’ overall records are not affected.

 

Below is the complete 2021 Air Force Reserve American Athletic Conference tournament schedule.

 

First Round – Monday, March 8

Game 1 (ESPN+)               No. 9 Wichita State vs. No. 8 Tulsa                            2:30 p.m. ET

Game 2 (ESPN+)               No. 10 Memphis vs. No. 7 Cincinnati                        5:30 p.m. ET (ESPN+)

 

Quarterfinals – Tuesday, March 9

Game 3 (ESPN+)               No. 5 Temple vs. No. 4 Tulane                                    Noon ET (ESPN+)

Game 4 (ESPN+)               8/9 winner vs. No. 1 USF                                               3 p.m. ET (ESPN+)

Game 5 (ESPN+)                7/10 winner vs. No. 2 UCF                                            7 p.m. ET (ESPN+)

Game 6 (ESPN+)               No. 6 East Carolina vs. No. 3 Houston                      10 p.m. ET (ESPN+)

 

Semifinals – Wednesday, March 10

Game 7 (ESPN+)               Game 3 winner vs. Game 4 winner                           5:30 p.m. ET (ESPN+)

Game 8 (ESPN+)               Game 5 winner vs. Game 6 winner                           8:30 p.m. ET (ESPN+)

 

Championship – Thursday, March 11

Game 9 (ESPNU)               Semifinal winners                                                            10 p.m. ET (ESPNU)

 

All times listed here are Eastern time

[Ricky the Bull]

Wichita State vs. #20 South Florida (Quarterfinal #2) | Watch ESPN

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[79 Bull]

Rocky (not the bull) start for the women.

[Guest Jonesy Bull]

WOW.... we are getting run over right now.  By Wichita State, seriously??

[bullsfan27]

If we don't wake up real quick this will be a one and done for the conference tourney followed by a 1 and done in the tourney. Shooting woes have to be psychological at this point.

[Guest Jonesy Bull]

Our shooting percentage is unbelievably terrible.

[Guest Jonesy Bull]

we are 5 of 30 shooting.

[79 Bull]

Missing every friggin' layup just like recent games.

[BullyPulpit]

Something terrible happened to this team during the layoff. We will come back to win this one in the second half, but Los Toros better figure things out quickly. Going to be such a disappointing end to an otherwise promising season.