| Year: | 2022 |
| Conference: | American Athletic Conference |
| Division: | I |
| Gender: | Men's |
| Teams: | 11 |
| Arena: | Dickies Arena |
| City: | Fort Worth, Texas |
| Champions: | Houston |
| Titlecount: | 2nd |
| Coach: | Kelvin Sampson |
| Coachcount: | 2nd |
| Mvp: | Fabian White Jr. |
| Mvpteam: | Houston |
| Television: | ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU |
The 2022 American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament was held March 10–13, 2022, at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. All games of the tournament were televised by ESPN Inc.[1] The winner of the tournament, the Houston Cougars, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA tournament.
Teams were seeded by conference record (tiebreakers were not required as no teams had identical conference records). The top five teams received byes to the quarterfinals.
With the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States still ongoing and the possibility of cancelled games, teams were required to play a minimum of 75% of the average number of conference games played in order to be seeded by winning percentage for the conference tournament; those with less games would be seeded below those meeting the minimum.[2] [3] However, only three games were completely cancelled, so all teams met the 75% requirement.
| Seed | School | Conference Record | Tiebreaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Houston | 15–3 | |
| 2 | SMU | 13–4 | |
| 3 | Memphis | 13–5 | |
| 4 | Temple | 10–7 | |
| 5 | Tulane | 10–8 | |
| 6 | UCF | 9–9 | |
| 7 | Wichita State | 6–9 | |
| 8 | Cincinnati | 7–11 | |
| 9 | East Carolina | 6–11 | |
| 10 | Tulsa | 4–14 | |
| 11 | South Florida | 3–15 | |
| Game | Time | Matchup | Score | Television | Attendance | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Round – March 10, 2022 | |||||||
| 1 | 12:00 PM | No. 8 Cincinnati vs. No. 9 East Carolina | 74–63 | ESPNU | |||
| 2 | 2:00 PM | No. 7 Wichita State vs. No. 10 Tulsa | 67–73 | ||||
| 3 | 6:00 PM | No. 6 UCF vs. No. 11 South Florida | 60–58 | ||||
| Quarterfinals – March 11, 2022 | |||||||
| 4 | 12:00 PM | No. 1 Houston vs. No. 8 Cincinnati | 69–56 | ESPN2 | |||
| 5 | 2:00 PM | No. 4 Temple vs. No. 5 Tulane | 60–69 | ||||
| 6 | 6:00 PM | No. 2 SMU vs. No. 10 Tulsa | 83–58 | ESPNU | |||
| 7 | 8:00 PM | No. 3 Memphis vs. No. 6 UCF | 85–69 | ||||
| Semifinals – March 12, 2022 | |||||||
| 8 | 2:00 PM | No. 1 Houston vs. No. 5 Tulane | 86–66 | ESPN2 | |||
| 9 | 4:00 PM | No. 2 SMU vs. No. 3 Memphis | 63–70 | ||||
| Championship – March 13, 2022 | |||||||
| 10 | 2:15 PM | No. 1 Houston vs No. 3 Memphis | 71–53 | ESPN | |||
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* – Denotes overtime period