By Jerry Briggs
Special for The JB Replay

The UTSA women hope to secure at least a sixth-place finish and a first-round bye in the American Conference basketball tournament when they host the Tulsa Golden Hurricane tonight at the Convocation Center.

In the last home game on the schedule and the second-to-last overall, the Roadrunners (13-14, 8-8) also hope to sweep the two-game series from the Golden Hurricane (18-10, 10-6).

UTSA will close out the schedule Saturday on the road against the Rice Owls, who have clinched the American’s regular-season championship.

The conference’s 10-team women’s tournament is set for March 10-14 in Birmingham, Ala. The top two teams earn a triple bye into the semifinals.

The third and fourth-place finishers will open in the quarterfinals.

Fifth and sixth-place teams get a single bye into the second round, which means UTSA likely is faced with winning four games in four days to win the title.

The Nos. 7 through 10 seeds all play on opening day.

Officials at UTSA say they believe the team may have already clinched a spot in the No. 6 slot. But the American hasn’t yet confirmed that is the case.

The Roadrunners downed the Golden Hurricane 66-47 in Oklahoma on Feb. 7.

Records

Tulsa 18-10, 10-6
UTSA 8-8, 13-14

Coming up

Tulsa at UTSA, tonight at 6:30
UTSA at Rice, Saturday at 2 p.m.

Notable

Tulsa guard Alisha Peavy is a freshman from San Antonio’s Pieper High School. Coming into the UTSA game, she was averaging 2.7 points and 3.3 rebounds.

Her father is Ben Peavy, who played in the 1990s for Charlie Boggess at Alamo Heights High School.

Also, her cousin is New Orleans Pelicans guard Micah Peavy. Micah Peavy played at Texas Tech, TCU and Georgetown.