American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament

AAC men's basketball tournament
Conference basketball championship
Sport	College basketball
Conference	American Athletic
Number of teams	14
Format	Single-elimination
Current stadium	Dickies Arena
Current location	Fort Worth, TX
Played	2014–present
Last contest	2024 AAC tournament
Current champion	UAB
Most championships	Cincinnati, Houston, SMU (2)
TV partner(s)	CBS ESPN / ESPN2 / ESPNU / ESPNews
Official website	theamerican.org/mbball

The American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament (sometimes known simply as The American Championship) is the conference tournament in men's basketball for the American Athletic Conference. It is a single-elimination tournament that involves all league schools (14 as of the 2023–24 season^[1]). Its seeding is based on regular season records. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA men's basketball tournament; however, the official conference championship is awarded to the team or teams with the best regular season record.

The creation of the conference tournament was a product of the split of the original Big East Conference. While The American is the legal successor to the old Big East, it gave up the rights to the long-standing conference tournament at Madison Square Garden in New York City to the new Big East. As a result, the 2014 tournament was numbered as the first tournament for the conference.