Английская Википедия:2017 American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament

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The 2017 American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament was the conference tournament for the American Athletic Conference during the 2016-17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was held March 9–12, 2017, at the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut. Originally, the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida (host of the 2016 Tournament) was slated to host the tournament for a second consecutive year, but in November 2014, the NCAA awarded the Amway Center with first and second-round games for the 2017 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament As a result, the XL Center hosted the tournament in 2017, with the tournament returning to Orlando in 2018.

Seeds

Teams are seeded by conference record, with ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if necessary.

Seed	School	Conference	Tiebreaker
1	SMU	17–1
2	Cincinnati	16–2
3	Houston	12–6
4	UCF	11–7
5	Memphis	9–9	1–1 vs Houston
6	UConn	9–9	0–2 vs Houston
7	Tulsa	8–10
8	Temple	7–11
9	East Carolina	6–12
10	Tulane	3–15
11	South Florida	1–17

Schedule

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup#	Score	Television	Attendance
First round – Thursday, March 9
1	1	3:30 PM	#9 East Carolina vs. #8 Temple	80–69	ESPNU	4,874
	2	6:00 PM	#10 Tulane vs. #7 Tulsa	60–66	ESPNews
	3	8:00 PM	#11 South Florida vs. #6 UConn	66–77
Quarterfinals – Friday, March 10
2	4	Noon	#9 East Carolina vs #1 SMU	77–81	ESPN2	1,844
	5	2:00 PM	#5 Memphis vs #4 UCF	54–84
3	6	7:00 PM	#7 Tulsa vs #2 Cincinnati	61–80	ESPNU	7,365
	7	9:00 PM	#6 UConn vs #3 Houston	74–65
Semifinals – Saturday, March 11
4	8	3:00 PM	#1 SMU vs #4 UCF	70–59	ESPN2	8,117
	9	5:00 PM	#2 Cincinnati vs #6 UConn	81–71
Championship – Sunday, March 12
5	10	3:15 PM	#1 SMU vs. #2 Cincinnati	71–56	ESPN	6,856
*Game times in ET. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.