American Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament

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AAC women's basketball tournament
Conference basketball championship
American Athletic Conference logo.svg
Sport College basketball
Conference American Athletic Conference
Number of teams11
Format Single-elimination tournament
Current stadium Dickies Arena
Current location Fort Worth, Texas
Played2014–present
Last contest 2025
Current champion South Florida (2025)
Most championships UConn (7)
TV partner(s) ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU/ESPN3
Official website theamerican.org/wbball

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.

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History

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

Finals

YearChampionScoreRunner-upMVPVenue
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
2025 South Florida 69–62 Rice Carla Britto, South Florida

Championships by school

SchoolTitlesWinning yearsRunner-upRunner-up
years
UConn 7 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,
2018, 2019, 2020 		0
South Florida 2 2021, 2025 52015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022
UCF 1 2022 22019, 2021
East Carolina 1 2023 12024
Rice 1 2024 12025
Cincinnati 012020
Houston 012023
Louisville 012014

Among current schools, Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, Memphis, North Texas, Temple, Tulane, Tulsa, UAB, UTSA, and Wichita State have never won the conference tournament.

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

See also

References

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