Teams seeded 7–10 had to play in the opening round and teams seeded 1–6 received a bye to the second round. Teams were seeded based on conference record and then a tie breaker system was used. Seeds Īll teams in the American qualified for the tournament. The remaining four schools (Houston, Memphis, SMU, and UCF) had previously been members of Conference USA.
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One (Temple) had been a football-only Big East member before entering into full membership in The American. (Cincinnati, Connecticut, and South Florida) had been full members of the original Big East. In the 2013–14 season, The American consisted of 10 members involved in the rearrangement of conferences between the 20 seasons. The teams in the conference competed in a ten-team single-elimination tournament for an automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA tournament.
The tournament was held March 12–15 in the FedExForum in Memphis, Tennessee and decided a champion of the 2013–14 American Athletic Conference men's basketball season (like most NCAA conferences, The American recognizes both regular-season and tournament champions Cincinnati and Louisville shared the regular-season title). While The American is the legal successor to the old Big East, the rights to conference tournament in Madison Square Garden were retained by the new Big East, so the 2014 tournament was numbered as the new conference's first edition. It was the first conference tournament held since the split of the original Big East Conference. The 2014 American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament was the first conference tournament of the American Athletic Conference (The American). season games, 3 postseason games vacated due to sanctions against the program Disputed Record-(31-6)(15-3)
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