American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

AAC Men's Basketball Tournament
Conference Basketball Championship
AAC logo
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