Английская Википедия:2018 American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament

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The 2018 American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament ended the 2017–18 season of the American Athletic Conference. It was held March 8–11, 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.

Seed	School	Conference	Tiebreaker
1	Cincinnati	16–2
2	Wichita State	14–4	1–0 vs. Memphis
3	Houston	14–4	0–1 vs. Memphis
4	Tulsa	12–6
5	Memphis	10–8
6	UCF	9–9
7	Temple	8–10
8	UConn	7–11
9	SMU	6–12
10	Tulane	5–13	1–1 vs. Houston
11	East Carolina	5–13	0–2 vs. Houston
12	South Florida	3–15

Schedule

Game	Time	Matchup	Score	Television	Attendance
First round – Thursday, March 8
1	Noon	No. 8 UConn vs No. 9 SMU	73–80	ESPNU	7,856
2	2:30 pm	No. 5 Memphis vs No. 12 South Florida	79–77
3	7:00 pm	No. 7 Temple vs No. 10 Tulane	82–77		7,918
4	9:30 pm	No. 6 UCF vs No. 11 East Carolina	66–52
Quarterfinals – Friday, March 9
5	Noon	No. 1 Cincinnati vs No. 9 SMU	61–51	ESPN2	8,491
6	2:30 pm	No. 4 Tulsa vs No. 5 Memphis	64–67
7	7:00 pm	No. 2 Wichita State vs No. 7 Temple	89–81	ESPNU	8,680
8	9:30 pm	No. 3 Houston vs No. 6 UCF	84–56
Semifinals – Saturday, March 10
9	1:00 pm	No. 1 Cincinnati vs. No. 5 Memphis	70–60	CBS	8,644
10	3:30 pm	No. 2 Wichita State vs. No. 3 Houston	74-77
Championship – Sunday, March 11
11	3:00 pm	No. 1 Cincinnati vs. No. 3 Houston	56–55	CBS	8,670
Game times in ET. Rankings denote tournament seeding.