The 2019 American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the American Athletic Conference. It was held March 14 through March 17, 2019, at the FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tennessee. Cincinnati defeated Houston 69–57 in the championship to earn the American Athletic Conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. It was the second consecutive tournament championship for Cincinnati.
Seeds All 12 conference teams will participate in the conference tournament. The top four teams receive a bye into the quarterfinals. Teams are 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.
SeedSchoolConf. recordTiebreaker1Houston16–22Cincinnati14–43Temple13–51–0 vs. Wichita State4UCF13–50–1 vs. Wichita State5Memphis11–76Wichita State10–87Tulsa8–101–0 vs. USF8South Florida8–100–1 vs. Tulsa9 UConn 6–121–1 vs. Wichita State10 SMU6–120–2 vs. Wichita State11East Carolina 3–1512Tulane0–18
Schedule
GameTimeMatchupScoreTelevisionAttendance First round – Thursday, March 1411:00 pmNo. 8 South Florida vs No. 9 UConn73–80ESPNU8,04623:00 pmNo. 5 Memphis vs No. 12 Tulane83–6838:00 pmNo. 7 Tulsa vs No. 10 SMU65–747,476410:00 pmNo. 6 Wichita State vs No. 11 East Carolina73–57 Quarterfinals – Friday, March 15512:00 pmNo. 1 Houston vs No. 9 UConn84–45ESPN2 7,61062:00 pmNo. 4 UCF vs No. 5 Memphis55–7977:00 pmNo. 2 Cincinnati vs No. 10 SMU82–74ESPNU7,35689:00 pmNo. 3 Temple vs No. 6 Wichita State74–80 Semifinals – Saturday, March 1693:00 pmNo. 1 Houston vs. No. 5 Memphis61–58ESPN27,819105:00 pmNo. 2 Cincinnati vs. No. 6 Wichita State66–63 Championship – Sunday, March 17113:15 pmNo. 1 Houston vs. No. 2 Cincinnati57–69ESPN 7,223 Game times in ET. Rankings denote tournament seeding.
Bracket
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