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2026 American Conference men's basketball tournament

2026 American Conference men's basketball tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season2025–26
Teams10
SiteLegacy Arena
Birmingham, Alabama
TelevisionESPN+, ESPNU, ESPN2, ESPN
2025–26 American Conference men's basketball standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
South Florida 10 – 3   .769 18 – 8   .692
Tulsa 8 – 5   .615 20 – 6   .769
Wichita State 8 – 5   .615 16 – 10   .615
Temple 7 – 5   .583 15 – 10   .600
Charlotte 7 – 5   .583 13 – 12   .520
Memphis 7 – 5   .583 12 – 13   .480
UAB 7 – 6   .538 16 – 10   .615
Tulane 6 – 6   .500 15 – 10   .600
North Texas 6 – 7   .462 15 – 11   .577
Florida Atlantic 6 – 7   .462 14 – 12   .538
Rice 5 – 8   .385 11 – 15   .423
East Carolina 4 – 8   .333 9 – 16   .360
UTSA 1 – 12   .077 5 – 20   .200
† 2026 American tournament winner
As of February 15, 2026

The 2026 American Conference men's basketball tournament will be the postseason men's basketball tournament for the American Conference for the 2025–26 season. The tournament will be held from March 11–15, 2026, at Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama.[1][2] The winner will receive the conference's automatic bid to the 2026 NCAA tournament.

This will be the first conference tournament under the American Conference name. In July 2025, the conference dropped the word "Athletic" from its name, renaming itself the American Conference.[3]

Seeds

Only the top ten conference teams will qualify to participate in the tournament.[4] Teams will be seeded by conference record. The conference adopted a stepladder format for the tournament, with the top two seeds receiving byes to the semifinals, the third and fourth seeds to the quarterfinals, and so on.[5]

Tiebreakers may be applied as needed to properly seed the teams.

Seed School Conference
record 		Tiebreaker
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
DNQ
DNQ
DNQ

Schedule

Game Time Matchup Score Television
First round – Wednesday, March 11
1 6:00 p.m. No. 8 vs. No. 9 ESPNU
2 8:30 p.m. No. 7 vs. No. 10 ESPNU or ESPN+
Second round – Thursday, March 12
3 6:00 p.m. No. 5 vs. Winner Game 1 ESPNU
4 8:30 p.m. No. 6 vs. Winner Game 2
Quarterfinals – Friday March 13
5 12:00 p.m. No. 4 vs. Winner Game 3 ESPN2
6 8:00 pm No. 3 vs. Winner Game 4
Semifinals – Saturday, March 14
7 2:00 p.m. No. 1 vs. Winner Game 5 ESPN2
8 4:30 p.m. No. 2 vs. Winner Game 6
Championship – Sunday, March 15
9 2:15 p.m. Winner Game 7 vs. Winner Game 8 ESPN
*Game times in CT. ()-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

First round
Wednesday, March 11		Second round
Thursday, March 12		Quarterfinals
Friday, March 13		Semifinals
Saturday, March 14		Championship
Sunday, March 15
1
4
5
8
92
3
6
7
10

Source:[6]

See also

  • 2026 American Conference women's basketball tournament

References

  1. ^ "2026 American Men's Basketball Championship - American Conference". theamerican.org. Retrieved January 7, 2026.
  2. ^ Ashworth, Thomas (May 30, 2025). "Birmingham set to host American Athletic Conference basketball tournaments in 2026". al. Retrieved January 7, 2026.
  3. ^ Writer, Brett Vito Staff (July 21, 2025). "American Athletic Conference rebrands, switching to just American Conference". Denton Record-Chronicle. Retrieved January 7, 2026.
  4. ^ Writer, Brett Vito Staff (July 30, 2025). "American Conference set to move to 10-team basketball tournaments". Denton Record-Chronicle. Retrieved January 7, 2026.
  5. ^ "Basketball Tiebreakers" (PDF). American Conference. SIDEARM Sports. Retrieved January 25, 2026.
  6. ^ "2026 MBB Championship Bracket (PDF) - American Conference" (PDF). theamerican.org. Retrieved January 7, 2026.
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