2020 American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament

2020 American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2019–20
Teams	12
Site	Dickies Arena Fort Worth, Texas
Television	ESPN, ESPNU, ESPN2
American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournaments

2019–20 American Athletic Conference men's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Cincinnati	13	–	5		.722			20	–	10		.667
No. 22 Houston	13	–	5		.722			23	–	8		.742
Tulsa	13	–	5		.722			21	–	10		.677
Wichita State	11	–	7		.611			23	–	8		.742
UConn	10	–	8		.556			19	–	12		.613
Memphis	10	–	8		.556			21	–	10		.677
SMU	9	–	9		.500			19	–	11		.633
UCF	7	–	11		.389			16	–	14		.533
South Florida	7	–	11		.389			14	–	17		.452
Temple	6	–	12		.333			14	–	17		.452
East Carolina	5	–	13		.278			11	–	20		.355
Tulane	4	–	14		.222			12	–	18		.400
Note: The 2020 AAC tournament was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rankings from AP poll

The 2020 American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament was the scheduled postseason men's basketball tournament for the American Athletic Conference. It was to be held at the Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. Due to the coronavirus pandemic the tournament was cancelled on March 12, 2020 – only minutes before the first game was set to begin.

Seeds

All 12 conference teams were slated to participate in the conference tournament. The top four teams received 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.

Seed	School	Conf. record	Tiebreaker
1	Cincinnati	13–5	2–1 vs Houston/Tulsa
2	Houston	13–5	2–2 vs Cincinnati/Tulsa
3	Tulsa	13–5	1–2 vs Cincinnati/Houston
4	Wichita State	11–7
5	UConn	10–8	3–3 vs Cincinnati/Houston/Tulsa
6	Memphis	10–8	2–3 vs Cincinnati/Houston/Tulsa
7	SMU	9–9
8	UCF	7–11	2–3 vs Cincinnati/Houston/Tulsa
9	South Florida	7–11	0–4 vs Cincinnati/Houston/Tulsa
10	Temple	6–12
11	East Carolina	5–13
12	Tulane	4–14

Schedule

Game	Time	Matchup	Score	Television	Attendance
First round – Thursday, March 12
1	12:00 pm	No. 8 UCF vs No. 9 South Florida	cancelled	ESPNU	N/A
2	2:00 pm	No. 5 UConn vs No. 12 Tulane
3	7:00 pm	No. 7 SMU vs No. 10 Temple			N/A
4	9:00 pm	No. 6 Memphis vs No. 11 East Carolina
Quarterfinals – Friday, March 13
5	12:00 pm	No. 1 Cincinnati vs Game 1 winner	cancelled	ESPN2	N/A
6	2:00 pm	No. 4 Wichita State vs Game 2 winner
7	6:30 pm	No. 2 Houston vs Game 3 winner		ESPNU	N/A
8	8:30 pm	No. 3 Tulsa vs Game 4 winner
Semifinals – Saturday, March 14
9	2:00 pm	Game 5 Winner vs. Game 6 winner	cancelled	ESPN2	N/A
10	4:00 pm	Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 winner
Championship – Sunday, March 15
11	2:15 pm	Game 9 winner vs. Game 10 winner	cancelled	ESPN	N/A
Game times in CT. Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

	First round Thursday, March 12					Quarterfinals Friday, March 13					Semifinals Saturday, March 14					Championship Sunday, March 15
						1	Cincinnati
	8	UCF
	9	South Florida
						4	Wichita State
	5	UConn
	12	Tulane
						2	#22 Houston
	7	SMU
	10	Temple
						3	Tulsa
	6	Memphis
	11	East Carolina