The 2018 American Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament was a postseason tournament that was held March 3–6 in the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. Connecticut, the winner of the American Athletic Tournament, earned an automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.

Seeds All the teams in the American Athletic Conference will qualify for the tournament. Teams are seeded based on conference record, and then a tiebreaker system will be used. Teams seeded 5–12 play in the opening round, and teams seeded 1–4 received a bye to the quarterfinals.

SeedSchoolConferenceOverallTiebreaker1 Connecticut ‡16–029–02 South Florida #13–324–63 UCF #12–420–94 Cincinnati #10–618–115 Houston9–720–102–0 vs. WSU6Wichita State9–714–160–2 vs. HOU7East Carolina7–915–158Memphis5–1110–191–0 vs. TUL9Tulane5–1113–160–1 vs. MEM10SMU4–1211–1811Temple3–1311–181–0 vs. TULSA12Tulsa3–139–200–1 vs. TEMPLE‡ – American Athletic Conference regular season champions.# – Received a first-round bye in the conference tournament. Overall record are as of the end of the regular season.

Schedule All tournament games are nationally televised on an ESPN network:

SessionGameTime* Matchup#ScoreTelevisionAttendance First round – Saturday, March 311 12:00 PM No. 11 Temple vs. No. 6 Wichita State 72–59ESPN31,3802 2:00 PM No. 10 SMU vs. No. 7 East Carolina74–8523 6:00 PM No. 9 Tulane vs. No. 8 Memphis76–644,5994 8:00 PM No. 12 Tulsa vs. No. 5 Houston98–72 Quarterfinals – Sunday, March 435 12:00 PM No. 11 Temple vs. No. 3 UCF70–77 ESPN33,3926 2:30 PM No. 7 East Carolina vs. No. 2 South Florida44–80 ESPNU47 6:30 PM No. 9 Tulane vs. No. 1 Connecticut56–826,8048 8:30 PM No. 12 Tulsa vs. No. 4 Cincinnati65–66 ESPN3 Semifinals – Monday, March 559 4:30 PM No. 3 UCF vs. No. 2 South Florida59–74 ESPNU6,03310 7:00 PM No. 4 Cincinnati vs. No. 1 Connecticut 21–75 ESPN2 Championship – Tuesday, March 6611 5:00 PM No. 2 South Florida vs. No. 1 Connecticut 54–70 ESPN2 7,501 *Game times in ET. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

Note: * denotes overtime

See also

2018 American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament

References