2022 C-USA Men's Basketball Championship Bracket (PDF)
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — WKU Hilltopper Basketball will be the No. 2 seed out of the East Division in next week's 2022 Conference USA Basketball Championship, and will open play against Louisiana Tech or Marshall/FIU at 6 p.m. CT Thursday in Frisco, Texas.
The Hilltoppers' quarterfinal matchup on Court B will air on Stadium and locally in Bowling Green on WKU PBS. The tournament takes place at the Ford Center at The Star, the training facility of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys.
If WKU advances, it'll play at 11:30 a.m. Friday in the semifinals on CBS Sports Network. The championship game is slated for 7:30 p.m. Saturday on CBS Sports Network.
The Hilltoppers (19-12 overall, 11-7 C-USA) closed the regular season by winning nine of their last 10, including a 78-69 victory over Marshall in Saturday's home finale.
WKU dropped its only game against Louisiana Tech this season, 74-73 in Ruston, La., in the conference opener on Jan. 1. The Hilltoppers led that game on the road by 12 with 4:08 remaining, but couldn't close it out.
WKU split its regular season matchups with FIU, falling in Miami in January, and swept rival Marshall this week in a home-and-home series.
The Hilltoppers have advanced to at least the semifinals of its league tournament in 14 of the last 16 tournaments played. The team is 27-9 with four championships in the last 13 conference tournaments overall.
WKU is one of 18 schools in the nation to appear in each of its league's last three tournament championship games. The Hilltoppers lost a 61-57 heartbreak in overtime to North Texas in last year's title game.
All-session booklets for this year's conference tournament are on sale now through the WKU Ticket Office and at WKUTickets.com. Purchases made through the WKU Ticket Office directly support WKU Athletics.
All-session booklets cover all games for both WKU Hilltopper and Lady Topper Basketball games as well as all other tournament games.
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