2020 American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament

The 2020 American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was a postseason tournament that was held from 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]

2020 American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2019–20
Teams	12
Site	Mohegan Sun Arena Uncasville, Connecticut
Champions	UConn (7th title)
Winning coach	Geno Auriemma (7th title)
MVP	Megan Walker (UConn)
Attendance	30,102
Television	ESPNU, ESPN2, ESPN3
American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournaments

2019–20 American Athletic Conference women's basketball standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
No. 5 UConn	16	–	0		1.000			26	–	3		.897
Cincinnati	11	–	5		.688			20	–	9		.690
UCF	11	–	5		.688			19	–	9		.679
South Florida	10	–	6		.625			18	–	12		.600
Tulane	8	–	8		.500			13	–	16		.448
Temple	7	–	9		.438			15	–	14		.517
Wichita State	7	–	9		.438			15	–	14		.517
SMU	7	–	9		.438			13	–	15		.464
East Carolina	6	–	10		.375			9	–	20		.310
Houston	5	–	11		.313			12	–	18		.400
Memphis	4	–	12		.250			13	–	16		.448
Tulsa	4	–	12		.250			9	–	20		.310
† 2020 AAC Tournament winner As of March 4, 2020; Rankings from AP Poll

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

	First Round Friday, March 6					Quarterfinals Saturday, March 7					Semifinals Sunday, March 8					Championship Game Monday, March 9
						1	UConn	94
						8	Temple	61
	8	Temple	67
	9	East Carolina	57
											1	UConn	79
										4	South Florida	38
						4	South Florida	64
						5	Tulane	50
	5	Tulane	67
	12	Tulsa	61
																1	UConn	87
																3	Cincinnati	53
						2	UCF	65
						7	Wichita State	32
	7	Wichita St.	72
	10	Houston	64
											2	UCF	51
										3	Cincinnati	57
						3	Cincinnati	94
						11	Memphis	52
	6	SMU	65
	11	Memphis	76

Note: * denotes overtime

References

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