Year: | 2023 |
Conference: | American Athletic Conference |
Division: | I |
Gender: | Men's |
Teams: | 11 |
Arena: | Dickies Arena |
City: | Fort Worth, Texas |
Champions: | Memphis |
Titlecount: | 1st |
Coach: | Penny Hardaway |
Coachcount: | 1st |
Mvp: | Kendric Davis |
Mvpteam: | Memphis |
Television: | ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU |
The 2023 American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament was held March 9–12, 2023, at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. All games of the tournament were televised by ESPN Inc.[1] The winner of the tournament, the Memphis Tigers, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA tournament.
Teams were seeded by conference record. The top five teams received byes to the quarterfinals.
Tiebreakers were applied as needed to properly seed the teams.
Seed | School | Conference Record | Tiebreaker[2] |
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1 | Houston | 17–1 | |
2 | Memphis | 13–5 | |
3 | Tulane | 12–6 | |
4 | Cincinnati | 11–7 | |
5 | Temple | 10–8 | |
6 | Wichita State | 9–9 | |
7 | UCF | 8–10 | |
8 | South Florida | 7–11 | |
9 | East Carolina | 6–12 | |
10 | SMU | 5–13 | |
11 | Tulsa | 1–17 | |
Game | Time | Matchup | Score | Television | Attendance | ||
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First Round – March 9, 2023 | |||||||
1 | 11:30 AM | No. 8 South Florida vs. No. 9 East Carolina | 58–73 | ESPNU | |||
2 | 1:30 PM | No. 7 UCF vs. No. 10 SMU | 76–70 | 5,986 | |||
3 | 6:00 PM | No. 6 Wichita State vs. No. 11 Tulsa | 81–63 | ||||
Quarterfinals – March 10, 2023 | |||||||
4 | 12:00 PM | No. 1 Houston vs. No. 9 East Carolina | 60–46 | ESPN2 | |||
5 | 2:00 PM | No. 4 Cincinnati vs. No. 5 Temple | 84–54 | ||||
6 | 6:00 PM | No. 2 Memphis vs. No. 7 UCF | 81–76 | ESPNU | |||
7 | 8:00 PM | No. 3 Tulane vs. No. 6 Wichita State | 82–76 | 6,111 | |||
Semifinals – March 11, 2023 | |||||||
8 | 2:00 PM | No. 1 Houston vs. No. 4 Cincinnati | 69–48 | ESPN2 | |||
9 | 4:00 PM | No. 2 Memphis vs. No. 3 Tulane | 94–54 | 6,943 | |||
Championship – March 12, 2023 | |||||||
10 | 2:15 PM | No. 1 Houston vs. No. 2 Memphis | 65–75 | ESPN | |||
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* – Denotes overtime period