American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament

AAC Women's Basketball Tournament
Conference Basketball Championship
Sport College basketball
Conference American Athletic Conference
Number of teams 11
Format Single-elimination tournament
Current stadium Mohegan Sun Arena
Current location Uncasville, Connecticut
Played 2014–present
Last contest 2017
Current champion Connecticut
Most championships Connecticut (4)
TV partner(s) ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU/ESPN3
Official website theamerican.com Women's Basketball

The American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament (sometimes known simply as The American Championship) is the conference tournament in basketball for the American Athletic Conference. It is a single-elimination tournament that involves all league schools. Its seeding is based on regular season records. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA women's basketball tournament, however the official conference championship is awarded to the team or teams with the best regular season record. It was announced that an agreement was made to keep the tournament at the Mohegan Sun Arena through 2020.[1]

Champions

Year Champion Score Runner-up MVP Venue
2014 Connecticut 72–52 Louisville Breanna Stewart, Connecticut Mohegan Sun Arena (Uncasville, CT)
2015 Connecticut 84–70 South Florida Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, Connecticut Mohegan Sun Arena (Uncasville, CT)
2016 Connecticut 77–51 South Florida Breanna Stewart, Connecticut Mohegan Sun Arena (Uncasville, CT)
2017 Connecticut 100–44 South Florida Katie Lou Samuelson, Connecticut Mohegan Sun Arena (Uncasville, CT)
2018 Mohegan Sun Arena (Uncasville, CT)

Tournament championships by school

Member Winners Winning Years
Connecticut 4 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.theuconnblog.com/2017/5/24/15686266/mohegan-sun-arena-will-continue-to-host-aac-womens-basketball-tournament
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