American Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament

The American Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament (sometimes known simply as The American Championship) is the conference tournament in women's basketball for the American Athletic Conference.

AAC women's basketball tournament
Conference basketball championship
SportCollege basketball
ConferenceAmerican Athletic Conference
Number of teams11
FormatSingle-elimination tournament
Current stadiumDickies Arena
Current locationFort Worth, Texas
Played2014–present
Last contest2024
Current championRice
Most championshipsConnecticut (7)
TV partner(s)ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU/ESPN3
Official websitetheamerican.org/wbball

History

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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

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Finals

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Year Champion Score Runner-up MVP Venue
2014 UConn 72–52 Louisville Breanna Stewart, UConn Mohegan Sun Arena (Uncasville, CT)
2015 UConn 84–70 South Florida Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, UConn
2016 UConn 77–51 South Florida Breanna Stewart, UConn
2017 UConn 100–44 South Florida Katie Lou Samuelson, UConn
2018 UConn 70–54 South Florida Azurá Stevens, UConn
2019 UConn 66–45 UCF Napheesa Collier, UConn
2020 UConn 87–53 Cincinnati Megan Walker, UConn
2021 South Florida 64–54 UCF Sydni Harvey, South Florida Dickies Arena (Fort Worth, TX)[2]
2022 UCF 53–45 South Florida Diamond Battles, UCF
2023 East Carolina 46–44 Houston Synia Johnson, East Carolina
2024 Rice 61–41 East Carolina Malia Fisher, Rice

Championships by school

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School Titles Winning years Runner-up Runner-up
years
UConn 7 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,
2018, 2019, 2020
0
South Florida 1 2021 5 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022
UCF 1 2022 2 2019, 2021
East Carolina 1 2023 1 2024
Rice 1 2024 0
Cincinnati 0 1 2020
Houston 0 1 2023
Louisville 0 1 2014

Italics indicate school no longer sponsors women's basketball in The American.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Connolly, Daniel (2017-05-24). "Mohegan Sun Arena Will Continue to Host AAC Women's Basketball Tournament". The UConn Blog. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
  2. ^ "Dickies Arena To Host 2021-2023 Women's Basketball Championships". American Athletic Conference. 23 Jun 2020. Retrieved 7 Jul 2020.
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