C-USA Championship Information

2026 CUSA tournament site: VBC Propst Arena, Huntsville, AL
2026 CUSA tournament dates: March 10th-14th, 2026

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Seed Team Quarter Semi Champ Win

NOTE: We use the structure below to calculate home advantage.

In some cases this may not be the true game location; instead we may use a proxy location that we think makes our home advantage calculation more accurate than simply treating the location as a neutral court.

  • First Round - neutral site.
  • Quarterfinals - neutral site.
  • Semifinals - neutral site.
  • Championship Game - neutral site.

The 2026 CUSA tournament bracket odds table above lists the round-by-round survival odds for every 2026 CUSA tournament team. Using win odds calculations derived from our sophisticated power ratings, we analyze the likelihood and expected outcome of every possible path to the CUSA tournament championship for every team in the 2026 CUSA bracket.

Projected Conference Standings

CUSA

  Current Projection Playoffs
Team conf W L conf W L overall W L Win Conf Win Tourn
Liberty 17 3 17.0 3.0 25.0 7.0 100.0% 0.0%
Sam Houston 13 7 13.0 7.0 22.0 11.0 0.0% 0.0%
W Kentucky 11 9 11.0 9.0 18.0 14.0 0.0% 0.0%
Louisiana Tech 11 9 11.0 9.0 20.0 13.0 0.0% 40.8%
Middle Tenn 11 9 11.0 9.0 17.0 15.0 0.0% 0.0%
Kennesaw St 10 10 10.0 10.0 20.0 13.0 0.0% 59.2%
Jacksonville St 10 10 10.0 10.0 15.0 17.0 0.0% 0.0%
New Mexico St 8 12 8.0 12.0 16.0 16.0 0.0% 0.0%
Florida Intl 8 12 8.0 12.0 15.0 17.0 0.0% 0.0%
Missouri St 8 12 8.0 12.0 16.0 18.0 0.0% 0.0%
UTEP 7 13 7.0 13.0 11.0 20.0 0.0% 0.0%
Delaware 6 14 6.0 14.0 10.0 21.0 0.0% 0.0%

A team's relative odds to win the 2026 C-USA Championship depend only partly on their CUSA bracket seed. Winning the C-USA Championship also depends on the dynamics of the 2026 CUSA bracket. In some cases, the team with a better C-USA Championship seed may actually face a harder path to the C-USA Championship championship than a team with a worse CUSA tournament seed.

In addition, because CUSA tournament seeds are based on win-loss records in CUSA conference games, CUSA tournament seeds are not always the most accurate measure of a team's true performance level. This is another reason why higher seeded teams in the CUSA bracket can have better odds to win the 2026 C-USA Championship than lower seeded teams in the CUSA bracket.