Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The 2014 American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the first conference tournament of the American Athletic Conference (The American). It was the first conference tournament held since the split of the original Big East Conference. While The American is the legal successor to the old Big East, the rights to conference tournament were retained by the new Big East. The tournament was held March 12–15 in the FedExForum in Memphis, Tennessee and decided a champion of the 2013-14 American Athletic Conference men's basketball season (like most NCAA conferences, The American recognizes both regular-season and tournament champions; Cincinnati and Louisville shared the regular-season title). The teams in the conference competed in a ten-team single-elimination tournament for an automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Tournament.In the 2013–14 season, The American consisted of 10 members involved in the rearrangement of conferences between the 2013 and 2014 seasons. Five (Cincinnati, Connecticut, Louisville, Rutgers, and South Florida) had been full members of the original Big East. One (Temple) had been a football-only Big East member before entering into full membership in The American. The remaining four schools (Houston, Memphis, SMU, and UCF) had previously been members of Conference USA.This was the only tournament to feature Louisville and Rutgers; both will move to new conferences for the 2014–15 season, respectively the ACC and Big Ten.. }
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- 2014_American_Athletic_Conference_Men's_Basketball_Tournament abstract "The 2014 American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the first conference tournament of the American Athletic Conference (The American). It was the first conference tournament held since the split of the original Big East Conference. While The American is the legal successor to the old Big East, the rights to conference tournament were retained by the new Big East. The tournament was held March 12–15 in the FedExForum in Memphis, Tennessee and decided a champion of the 2013-14 American Athletic Conference men's basketball season (like most NCAA conferences, The American recognizes both regular-season and tournament champions; Cincinnati and Louisville shared the regular-season title). The teams in the conference competed in a ten-team single-elimination tournament for an automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Tournament.In the 2013–14 season, The American consisted of 10 members involved in the rearrangement of conferences between the 2013 and 2014 seasons. Five (Cincinnati, Connecticut, Louisville, Rutgers, and South Florida) had been full members of the original Big East. One (Temple) had been a football-only Big East member before entering into full membership in The American. The remaining four schools (Houston, Memphis, SMU, and UCF) had previously been members of Conference USA.This was the only tournament to feature Louisville and Rutgers; both will move to new conferences for the 2014–15 season, respectively the ACC and Big Ten.".