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 (XL Center, 2017)
Current location	Rotates (Hartford, CT, 2017)
Played	2014–present
Last contest	2017
Current champion	SMU
Most championships	SMU (2)
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 (12 with the addition of Wichita State for the 2017–18 season). 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.

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