DALLAS – No. 24 Rice became just the third program in Conference USA women’s basketball history to polish off a perfect 16-0 league campaign on Thursday night. The Owls claimed the 2018-19 C-USA Regular-Season Championship on Feb. 23, along with the No. 1 seed and a first-round bye for the 2019 Air Force Reserve Conference USA Women’s Basketball Championship Presented by Baylor Scott & White Sports Performance Center at the Star in Frisco, Texas, from March 13-16.

2019 Air Force Reserve C-USA Women's Basketball Championship Bracket
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2019 Air Force Reserve C-USA Women’s Basketball Championship Schedule

Wednesday, March 13	11 a.m. CT	(8) Southern Miss vs. (9) North Texas	ESPN+
Wednesday, March 13	11:30 a.m. CT	(5) Old Dominion vs. (12) Florida Atlantic	ESPN+
Wednesday, March 13	1:30 p.m. CT	(7) Charlotte vs. (10) Louisiana Tech	ESPN+
Wednesday, March 13	2 p.m. CT	(6) Marshall vs. (11) UTEP	ESPN+
Thursday, March 14	11 a.m. CT	(1) Rice vs. Southern Miss/North Texas	Stadium
Thursday, March 14	11:30 a.m. CT	(4) WKU vs. Old Dominion/Florida Atlantic	ESPN+
Thursday, March 14	1:30 p.m. CT	(2) UAB vs. Charlotte/Louisiana Tech	Stadium
Thursday, March 14	2 p.m. CT	(3) Middle Tennessee vs. Marshall/UTEP	ESPN+
Friday, March 15	5:30 p.m. CT	TBA vs. TBA	Stadium
Friday, March 15	8 p.m. CT	TBA vs. TBA	Stadium
Saturday, March 16	4:30 p.m. CT	TBA vs. TBA	CBSSN

The Owls seized their 18^th-straight victory on Thursday night against UTSA, a win that also set the school’s single-season record (25). The stretch is the third-longest active NCAA win streak and the second-longest in C-USA history. Rice made their first-ever appearance in the AP Top 25 on Feb. 18 and have remained among the nation’s elite three weeks in a row.

Defending C-USA Regular-Season Champion and preseason favorite UAB clinched the No. 2 seed and a first-round bye on Thursday with a season-high 95 points against Louisiana Tech in the regular-season finale. The Blazers posted a 24-5 overall record and 12-4 conference mark.
No. 3 Middle Tennessee rostered six newcomers heading into 2018-19 and managed to amass 11 wins in league action and 20 on the year. The Lady Raiders earned one of four first-round byes into the last game of the tournament quarterfinals. 

WKU is slotted as the fourth seed and will march into the C-USA Quarterfinal round on a high note as the Toppers knocked off Middle Tennessee in a renewal of one of the league’s oldest rivalries Thursday night. The reigning C-USA Champion tallied an 11-5 showing in conference play and will look to seize its fourth title in five seasons in Frisco next week.

Fifth-seeded Old Dominion, tied for the sixth-youngest team in the nation, far exceeded its preseason expectation of 11^th place and went on to boast 10 conference wins and one of the highest RPIs among the league. The Monarchs toppled Florida Atlantic in their regular-season finale in Boca Raton and will face off against the Owls once again in the first round.

College basketball at its very best will be held March 13-16 at Ford Center in Frisco, Texas. For the second year in a row, 24 men’s and women’s basketball teams will be playing 22 games on two courts simultaneously in the state-of-the-art Dallas Cowboys practice facility.