The 2020 American Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament was a postseason tournament that was held March 6–9, 2020, in the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. UConn won the tournament, their seventh consecutively, and earned an automatic bid to the 2020 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.
SeedSchoolConferenceOverallTiebreaker1UConn16–026–32 UCF11–520–92–0 vs. USF3 Cincinnati11–519–91–1 vs. USF4 South Florida10–618–125 Tulane8–813–166 SMU7–913–157 Wichita State7–915–148 Temple7–915–149 East Carolina6–109–2010 Houston5–1112–1811 Memphis4–1213–161–0 vs. Tulsa12Tulsa4–129–200–1 vs. Memphis‡ – 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 – Friday, March 611 12:00 PM No. 12 Tulsa vs. No. 5 Tulane61–67ESPN33,9722 2:00 PM No. 9 East Carolina vs. No. 8 Temple57–6723 6:00 PM No. 10 Houston vs. No. 7 Wichita State 62–74 4,4004 8:00 PM No. 11 Memphis vs. No. 6 SMU 76–65 Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 735 12:00 PM No. 5 Tulane vs. No. 4 USF 50–64ESPN3 5,7636 2:00 PM No. 8 Temple vs. No. 1 UConn 61–9447 6:00 PM No. 7 Wichita State vs. No. 2 UCF 32–65 4,8608 8:00 PM No. 11 Memphis vs. No. 3 Cincinnati 52–94 Semifinals – Sunday, March 859 4:00 PM No. 4 USF vs. No. 1 UConn 38-79 ESPN25,67710 6:30 PM No. 2 UCF vs. No. 3 Cincinnati 51–57 ESPNU Championship – Monday, March 9611 7:00 PM No. 1 UConn vs. No. 3 Cincinnati 87–53 ESPN2 5,430 *Game times in ET. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.
Bracket
Note: * denotes overtime
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