<Tr> <Td> South Florida </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td>--</Td> <Td> 15 </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td>. 167 </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 10 </Td> <Td>--</Td> <Td> 22 </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td>. 313 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="99"> † 2018 AAC Tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll </Td> </Tr> <P> The 2018 American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament ended the 2017--18 season of the American Athletic Conference . It was held from March 8 through March 11, 2018 at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida . Regular - season champion Cincinnati won the tournament and with it the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament . </P> <P> All 12 conference teams participated in the conference tournament . The top four teams received a bye into the quarterfinals . Teams were 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 . </P>

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