2018 American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament


The 2018 American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament ended the 2017–18 season of the American Athletic Conference. It was held from March 8 through March 11, 2018 at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida. Regular-season champion Cincinnati won the tournament and with it the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Seeds

All 12 conference teams participated in the conference tournament. The top four teams received a bye into the quarterfinals. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Tiebreakers: win/loss record, head-to-head record, record against the highest ranked team outside of the tied teams, record against the second highest ranked team outside of the tied teams, etc.
SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker
1Cincinnati16–2
2Wichita State14–41–0 vs. Memphis
3Houston14–40–1 vs. Memphis
4Tulsa12–6
5Memphis10–8
6UCF9–9
7Temple8–10
8Connecticut7–11
9SMU6–12
10Tulane5–131–1 vs. Houston
11East Carolina5–130–2 vs. Houston
12South Florida3–15

Schedule

Bracket