2016 American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament

2016 American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2015–16
Teams	11
Site	Mohegan Sun Arena Uncasville, Connecticut
Champions	Connecticut (3rd title)
Winning coach	Geno Auriemma (3rd title)
MVP	Breanna Stewart (Connecticut)
Attendance	30,478
Television	ESPNU, ESPN2, ESPN3
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2015–16 American Athletic Conference women's basketball standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
#1 Connecticut †	18	–	0		1.000			38	–	0		1.000
#21 South Florida	14	–	4		.778			24	–	10		.706
Temple	13	–	5		.722			23	–	12		.657
Memphis	12	–	6		.667			18	–	13		.581
Tulane	11	–	7		.611			23	–	12		.657
Tulsa	8	–	10		.444			12	–	19		.387
SMU	7	–	11		.389			13	–	18		.419
East Carolina	6	–	12		.333			13	–	19		.406
Cincinnati	4	–	14		.222			8	–	22		.267
UCF	4	–	14		.222			7	–	23		.233
Houston	2	–	16		.111			6	–	24		.200
† American Tournament winner As of April 5, 2016; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2016 American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was a tournament held between March 4–7, 2016 in the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. Connecticut won their third straight American Athletic Conference title by defeating South Florida and earn an automatic trip to the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.

All the teams in the American Athletic Conference qualified for the tournament. Teams were seeded based on conference record, and then a tiebreaker system was used. Teams seeded 6–11 played in the opening round, and teams seeded 1–5 received a bye to the quarterfinals.

All tournament games are nationally televised on an ESPN network:

Note: * denotes overtime

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