2020 American Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament explained

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.^[1]

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.

Seed	School	Conference	Overall	Tiebreaker
1	UConn	16–0	26–3
2	UCF	11–5	20–9	2–0 vs. USF
3	Cincinnati	11–5	19–9	1–1 vs. USF
4	South Florida	10–6	18–12
5	Tulane	8–8	13–16
6	SMU	7–9	13–15
7	Wichita State	7–9	15–14
8	Temple	7–9	15–14
9	East Carolina	6–10	9–20
10	Houston	5–11	12–18
11	Memphis	4–12	13–16	1–0 vs. Tulsa
12	Tulsa	4–12	9–20	0–1 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:^[2]

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup#	Score	Television	Attendance
First round – Friday, March 6
1	1	12:00 PM	No. 12 Tulsa vs. No. 5 Tulane	61–67	ESPN3	3,972
	2	2:00 PM	No. 9 East Carolina vs. No. 8 Temple	57–67
2	3	6:00 PM	No. 10 Houston vs. No. 7 Wichita State	62–74		4,400
	4	8:00 PM	No. 11 Memphis vs. No. 6 SMU	76–65
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 7
3	5	12:00 PM	No. 5 Tulane vs. No. 4 USF	50–64	ESPN3	5,763
	6	2:00 PM	No. 8 Temple vs. No. 1 UConn	61–94
4	7	6:00 PM	No. 7 Wichita State vs. No. 2 UCF	32–65		4,860
	8	8:00 PM	No. 11 Memphis vs. No. 3 Cincinnati	52–94
Semifinals – Sunday, March 8
5	9	4:00 PM	No. 4 USF vs. No. 1 UConn	38-79	ESPN2	5,677
	10	6:30 PM	No. 2 UCF vs. No. 3 Cincinnati	51–57	ESPNU
Championship – Monday, March 9
6	11	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

Notes and References

1. Web site: American Athletic Conference Announces 2019-20 Women's Basketball Schedule . September 9, 2019 . October 8, 2019.
2. Web site: American Athletic Conference - 2020 Women's Basketball Championship. theamerican.org.