American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

AAC Men's Basketball Tournament
Conference Basketball Championship
Sport College basketball
Conference American Athletic Conference
Number of teams 11
Format Single-elimination tournament
Current stadium Rotates (Amway Center, 2016)
Current location Rotates (Orlando, Florida, 2016)
Played 2014–present
Last contest 2016
Current champion Connecticut
Most championships Louisville (1)
SMU
Connecticut
TV partner(s) ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU/ESPNews
Official website theamerican.com Men's Basketball

The American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament (sometimes known simply as The American Championship) is the conference tournament in basketball for the American Athletic Conference. It is a single-elimination tournament that involves all league schools (currently 11). Its seeding is based on regular season records. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA men's basketball tournament, however the official conference championship is awarded to the team or teams with the best regular season record.

The creation of the conference tournament was a product of the split of the original Big East Conference. While The American is the legal successor to the old Big East, it gave up the rights to the long-standing conference tournament at Madison Square Garden in New York City to the new Big East. As a result, the 2014 tournament was numbered as the first tournament for the conference.

Champions

Year Champion Score Runner-up MVP Venue
2014 Louisville 71–61 Connecticut Russ Smith, Louisville FedEx Forum (Memphis, TN)
2015 SMU 62–54 Connecticut Markus Kennedy, SMU XL Center (Hartford, CT)
2016 Connecticut 72–58 Memphis Daniel Hamilton, Connecticut Amway Center (Orlando, FL)
2017 XL Center (Hartford, CT)
2018 Amway Center (Orlando, FL)

Tournament championships by school

Member Winners Winning Years
Louisville 1 2014
SMU 1 2015
Connecticut 1 2016

See also

American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament

References

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